cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
19. Predictors of Relapse in Giant Cell Arteritis
Creators: name: Chu1, Raymond
name: Ali2, Mohsin
name: Makhzoum3, Jean-Paul
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Vasculitis
ANCA
Abstracts
Giant Cell Arthritis
MPA
GPA
EGPA
Takayasu
IgA vasculitis

description: Background: Giant cell arteritis (GCA) is a systemic vasculitis which manifests as headaches and ischemic symptoms that can lead to vision loss. Treatment of GCA often requires more than a year of glucocorticoids, with or without a glucocorticoid-sparing agent, and can be complicated by episodes of recurrence. Here, we evaluate predictors of GCA recurrence over a decade at a tertiary hospital. Methods:  We conducted a retrospective chart review for patients with GCA followed at the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montreal from ­­­2010 through 2020. Data extracted included patient’s age, sex, baseline comorbidities (diabetes and hypertension), clinical features (weight loss, fatigue, headache, jaw claudication or polymyalgia rheumatica) and prednisone dose at initial presentation. We analyzed these factors as predictors of relapse, including survival analyses for time to first relapse. Results:  Among 93 patients, 23 (25%) had disease recurrence over a median follow-up of 562 days (IQR 368 days). Eighty (86%) patients were female. Thirteen (14%) had diabetes, whereas 52 (56%) had hypertension at baseline. For clinical features, 42 (45%) patients had weight loss, 46 (49%) had fatigue, 84 (90%) had headache, 58 (62%) had jaw claudication and 38 (41%) had PMR. There were no differences in relapse risk by demographic factors, comorbidities, or initial presenting clinical features. However, patients that received a higher dose of prednisone at presentation were shown to have less risk of relapse [hazard ratio (HR) .97 (95% CI 0.95, 1.00)]. Conclusions: Our study did not demonstrate diabetes, hypertension or clinical features at initial presentation to be associated with higher relapses. A higher dose of initial prednisone results was associated with less relapses. Disclosures:  None
The significance of systemic hypertension before and after pregnancy
Creators: name: CATHERINE ALISON BRUMBY
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine

description: This thesis explores links between preeclampsia and future cardiovascular disease by evaluating the clinical significance of chronic high blood pressure both before and after pregnancy. Strategies to improve detection and follow-up of blood pressure after pregnancy were explored, and nurse-initiated health screening shows promise in identifying women needing further care for high blood pressure.
Machine-Learning-For-Laser-Ablation-In-Liquid
Creators: name: Runpeng Miao
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Folder: GA-feature-subset-selection
 File: GA algorithm for feature subselection
 Description: The code implements a genetic algorithm approach for feature selection in machine learning using linear regression as the base model Folder: Voting-regressor
 File: Feature importance ranking
 Description: This code implements the calculation of feature importance of all features by using the dataset of interest fitted in Decision Tree model
 File: Bayesian optimization
 Description: The code will optimize each model separately using Bayesian Optimization and provide the best parameters and score for each model
 File: Voting regressor with 5 models
 Description: This code utilizes a voting regressor to ensemble five tree-based models, each with optimized hyperparameters, in order to achieve the best predictive capability for the model Folder: Auto-data-splitting-by-article-ID
 File: Auto data splitting by article ID
 Description: Performs splitting of the database into test and training datasets from distinct sources (article ID)
 File: Bayes_opt + CV by auto datasplitting by article ID
 Description: The code employs Bayesian optimization to optimize the hyperparameters of the XGBoost model on diverse datasets obtained through the 'extract_rows' function of the 'Auto data splitting by article ID.py'
Volumetric nasal cavity analysis in children with unilateral and bilateral cleft lip and palate: Nasal Cavity Volume in Cleft Lip and Palate
Creators: name: Davis, Stephanie D.
name: Walsh, Jonathan
name: Drake, Amelia Fischer
name: Superfine, Richard
name: Farzal, Zainab
name: Zdanski, Carlton J.
name: Lopes De Rezende Barbosa, Gabriella
name: Kimbell, Julia S.
name: Pimenta, Luiz A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Children with cleft lip and palate (CLP) often suffer from nasal obstruction which may be related to effects on nasal volume. The objective of this study is to compare side:side volume ratios and nasal volume in patients with unilateral (UCLP) and bilateral (BCLP) clefts with age-matched controls.
Addiction treatment providers’ views about disease models of addiction and neuroscience: Implications for practice, policy and research translation
Creators: name: ANTHONY IAN BARNETT
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Applied Psychology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology

description: This thesis explores drug and alcohol addiction treatment providers' views about disease models of addiction and neuroscience. The implications of the thesis for practice, policy and research translation are discussed.
Functional Connectivity of the Infant Human Brain: Plastic and Modifiable
Creators: name: Lin, Weili
name: Grewen, Karen
name: Gilmore, John H.
name: Gao, Wei
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Infancy is a critical and immensely important period in human brain development. Subtle changes during this stage may be greatly amplified with the unfolding of different developmental processes, exerting far-reaching consequences. Studies of the structure and behavioral manifestations of the infant brain are fruitful. However, the specific functional brain mechanisms that enable the execution of different behaviors remained elusive until the advent of functional connectivity fMRI (fcMRI), which provides an unprecedented opportunity to probe the infant functional brain development in vivo. Since its inception, a burgeoning field of infant brain functional connectivity study has emerged and thrived during the past decade. In this review, we describe (1) findings of normal development of functional connectivity networks and their relationships to behaviors and (2) disruptions of the normative functional connectivity development due to identifiable genetic and/or environmental risk factors during the first 2 years of human life. Technical considerations of infant fcMRI are also provided. It is our hope to consolidate previous findings so that the field can move forward with a clearer picture toward the ultimate goal of fcMRI-based objective methods for early diagnosis/identification of risks and evaluation of early interventions to optimize developing functional connectivity networks in this critical developmental window.
Fiorentino in Capitanata. Cronache da un abitato medievale
Creators: name: Coppola, Michele
Publisher: name: Restauro Archeologico
Year: 2016

description: The archaeological site of Fiorentino is located on a hill on the edge of the Tavoliere plain. Inhabited since ancient times, reactivated in the 11th century by the Byzantine government, the settlement reached its greatest expansion in the Norman and Swabian age. It was the site of one of the Domus Solaciorum of Frederick II of Swabia who died there in 1250. The Italian-French archaeological campaigns (1982-1994) uncovered dwellings, cisterns, churches, the cathedral, the main castle fortified area, moats, walls. The investigations were accompanied by widespread conservation interventions, often incomplete and inadequate though. Today the site is abandoned and the rare valorization activities undertaken fail to strengthen the contact with the local people. A research carried out by the University of Florence (DIDA) monitored for years the conservation conditions of many structures. The most critical aspects concern the poor quality walls, especially if unprotected, that are in continuous degeneration. The architectural structures on the hillside are increasingly at risk of instability. Constant care and maintenance would be needed, that can fit into broader programs of enhancement of the complex. Punctual and occasional interventions in the long run are ineffective and wasteful.
description: Restauro Archeologico, Vol. 24 No. 1 (2016)
title: Modifiable and Non-modifiable Factors Associated with DKA among Children and Adolescents with Type 1 Diabetes: A Machine Learning Exploration Using the T1D Exchange Data Set
Creators: name: Bassett, Bridget
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2023

description:
INTRODUCTION:  Diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) is a serious life-threatening complication among pediatric patients with Type 1 diabetes. Even one instance of DKA can predispose a patient to more episodes of DKA in the future compounding the complications and risks.



AIM:  The aim of this study is to use LASSO, a new variable selection method, to determine novel risk factors for DKA.



METHODS: The T1D Exchange dataset was used for a new variable selection technique for diabetic ketoacidosis (DKA) among pediatric patients in the United States. With DKA as a binary outcome, the HPGENSELECT procedure was used while LASSO or L1 regression was employed to create sparse models for variable selection.



RESULTS:  The following modifiable variables were selected: number of blood glucose checks per patient per day, BMI, albumin creatinine ratio, systolic and diastolic blood pressure, BUN levels, having a hypoglycemic event in the previous three months and lipid levels (HDL/LDL/total cholesterol/triglycerides). The non-modifiable variables that were selected in the model are the following: age, diabetes duration in years, height and months from exam date. The model did produce an acceptable AUC for predictive ability.


DISCUSSION: The problem of finding modifiable risk factors for pediatric patients continues to be challenging, even if it is vitally important. The data in this study were both collected retrospectively and voluntarily, and their use for a predictive model should be used with caution.  Machine learning techniques offer the potential to identify novel risk factors for DKA among pediatric patients if EHR are used and the dataset is large enough.
Elliptic curves over a finite field and the trace formula
Creators: name: Kaplan, Nathan
name: Petrow, Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11G20, 11F72, 14G15

description: We prove formulas for power moments for point counts of elliptic curves over a finite field $k$ such that the groups of $k$-points of the curves contain a chosen subgroup. These formulas express the moments in terms of traces of Hecke operators for certain congruence subgroups of $\operatorname{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z})$. As our main technical input we prove an Eichler-Selberg trace formula for a family of congruence subgroups of $\operatorname{SL}_2(\mathbb{Z})$ which include as special cases the groups $Γ_1(N)$ and $Γ(N)$. Our formulas generalize results of Birch and Ihara (the case of the trivial subgroup, and the full modular group), and previous work of the authors (the subgroups $\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z}$ and $(\mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})^2$ and congruence subgroups $Γ_0(2),Γ_0(4)$). We use these formulas to answer statistical questions about point counts for elliptic curves over a fixed finite field, generalizing results of Vlǎduţ, Gekeler, Howe, and others.
description: To appear in Proc. London Math. Soc. 61 pages
Adjunctive Azithromycin Prophylaxis for Cesarean Delivery
Creators: name: Clark, Erin
name: Longo, Sherri
name: Saade, George
name: Andrews, William
name: Szychowski, Jeff M.
name: Cutter, Gary
name: Tita, Alan T.N.
name: Letson, Kellett
name: Abramovici, Adi
name: Esplin, Sean
name: Boggess, Kim
name: Owens, Michelle
name: Cleary, Kirsten
name: Ambalavanan, Namasivayam
name: Wapner, Ron
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The addition of azithromycin to standard regimens for antibiotic prophylaxis before cesarean delivery may further reduce the rate of postoperative infection. We evaluated the benefits and safety of azithromycin-based extended-spectrum prophylaxis in women undergoing nonelective cesarean section.
Direct evidence for strong crossover of collective excitations and positive sound dispersion in the supercritical state
Creators: name: Fomin, Yu. D.
name: Ryzhov, V. N.
name: Tsiok, E. N.
name: Brazhkin, V. V.
name: Trachenko, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Supercritical state has been viewed as an intermediate state between gases and liquids with largely unknown physical properties. Here, we address the important ability of supercritical fluids to sustain collective excitations. We directly study propagating modes on the basis of correlation functions calculated from extensive molecular dynamics simulations, and find that the supercritical system sustains propagating solid-like transverse modes below the Frenkel line but becomes devoid of transverse modes above the line where it supports longitudinal modes only. Important thermodynamic implications of this finding are discussed. We directly detect positive sound dispersion (PSD) below the Frenkel line where transverse modes are operative, quantitatively explain its magnitude on the basis of transverse and longitudinal velocities. PSD disappears above the Frenkel line which therefore demarcates the supercritical phase diagram into two areas where PSD does and does not operate.
title: Campylobacter in Drinking Water: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Kyra
Publisher: name: Georgia State University
Year: 2022

description:
Aims: This review sought to understand the burden of disease caused by Campylobacter that comes from the drinking water supply and how it can be detected and controlled. The review will analyze the findings from studies that investigate waterborne Campylobacter clinical or public source cases to develop an in-depth understanding of outbreaks how infection can be prevented. It is important to know the breakdown within the systems for which the bacteria is introduced into the system, demonstrate whether the water treatment process test for Campylobacter, and what can be done to reduce and/or eliminate contamination.


Methodology: This study was conducted as a systematic review according to the guidelines provided by Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses (PRISMA). The Cochrane library, PubMed, EMBASE, and Google Scholar Databases were searched for relevant data studies. A data extraction sheet was used for the systematic review.  Variables that were created included type of study design, country, setting, type of samples, diagnostic method, results, and number of cases.


Results: The review implicates Campylobacter as the main causative agent of waterborne outbreaks (Campylobacteriosis), which often originates from the central water supply systems contaminated by wastewater runoff or sewage. Animals and livestock cause a large proportion of waterborne outbreaks of Campylobacter.


Conclusion: Since the animals and livestock are found in the environments close to human water source supplies, particularly in rural areas, water contamination from feces is inevitable. More monitoring and surveillance is needed to prevent waterborne Campylobacter outbreaks, as well as improved diagnostic tests. This will improve detection and response time and mitigate adverse health effects of consumption of contaminated water. Studies from using the PRISMA method do not allow for the evaluation of water treatment processes. This method does help to enumerate the burden of disease on the human population.
title: Shoulder direct arthrography: how to do and how to read
Creators: name: Ferreira, Luis Amaral
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Arthrography
subject: Education and training

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Review technique for performing arthrograms of the shoulder Describe indications and the added value of arthrography for assessment of shoulder pathology Illustrate spectrum of pathological findings on...
Maternal Reminiscing, Socio-Cultural Contexts, and the Development of Children’s Autobiographical Memory
Creators: name: YUN WU
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Developmental and Educational Psychology

description: This thesis examines the cross-cultural differences in the characteristics of and relationships between maternal reminiscing styles, child autobiographical memory and child socioemotional functioning. The findings of this thesis showed that different aspects of child autobiographical memory may be associated with different aspects of child socioemotional functioning. In addition, it identifies the pan-cultural influence of maternal emotional reminiscing on child memory elaboration and child prosocial behaviours.
Gauge invariance and geometric phase in nonequilibrium thermodynamics
Creators: name: Borlenghi, Simone
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show the link between U1 lattice gauge theories and the off-equilibrium thermodynamics of a large class of nonlinear oscillators networks. The coupling between the oscillators plays the role of a gauge field, or connection, on the network. The thermodynamical forces that drive energy flows are expressed in terms of the curvature of the connection, analogous to a geometric phase. The model, which holds both close and far from equilibrium, predicts the existence of persistent energy and particle currents circulating in close loops through the network. The predictions are confirmed by numerical simulations. Possible extension of the theory and experimental applications to nanoscale devices are briefly discussed.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
Successful zebrafish spinal cord regeneration is orchestrated by temporally distinct cellular mechanisms
Creators: name: CELIA MARGRETHE LANDFALD VANDESTADT
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 100404 Regenerative Medicine (incl. Stem Cells and Tissue Engineering)
subject: FOS: Medical biotechnology
subject: Neuroscience

description: This thesis examined the real-time successful regeneration of larval zebrafish, at the level of both tissue architecture and functional recovery. It identified that two distinct, but complementary, phases of regeneration occur in response to injury and established that these responses are triggered, in part, by the release of double stranded RNA.
Antenatal Betamethasone for Women at Risk for Late Preterm Delivery
Creators: name: McKenna,
name: Thom,
name: Reddy,
name: Rouse,
name: Tolosa,
name: Saade,
name: Swamy,
name: Casey,
name: Gibbs,
name: Gyamfi-Bannerman,
name: Norton,
name: Chien,
name: Caritis,
name: Van Dorsten,
name: Sorokin,
name: Blackwell,
name: Tita,
name: Thorp,
name: Peaceman,
name: Clark,
name: Jain,
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Infants born at 34 to 36 weeks’ gestation (late preterm) have greater risks of adverse respiratory and other outcomes, than those born at 37 weeks gestation or later. It is not known whether betamethasone administered to women at risk for late preterm delivery decreases risks of neonatal morbidities.
Cypella curuzupensis Ravenna, Wrightia
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Iridaceae
Cypella
Cypella curuzupensis

description: Cypella curuzupensis Ravenna, Wrightia 7: 19. 1981.
Herb.
 Vouchers: Guairá: Jörgensen 3871 (BA, SI); Mereles & Solomon 7539 (FCQ); Ravenna 463, type (Herb. Ravenna).
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus in Bangladesh: Cost-of-illness and Complications
Creators: name: AFSANA AFROZ
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 10402 Biostatistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 111706 Epidemiology

description: Diabetes is one of the leading non-communicable diseases of 21st century, which contributes 1.6 million to the global death toll of 41 million every year. However, scientific evidence regarding type 2 diabetes, especially in low- and lower-middle-income countries is limited. In the context of Bangladesh (a low income country in South Asia), this doctoral thesis addressed several significant gaps in the literature within the scope of cost-of-illness, diabetes related macro- and micro-vascular complications and their effect on total cost, poor glycaemic control and their associated factors, and the impact of diabetes on the economy of Bangladesh. The insights drawn from this thesis may prove useful to policymakers, clinicians, patients and their families.
The Role of Grainyhead-like 2 (Grhl2) Transcription Factor in Embryonic Development
Creators: name: MICHAEL ELLIOT DE VRIES
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Developmental Biology

description: The World Health Organisation predicts 3-4% of babies born every year have a birth defect. Currently, approximately half of congenital defect cases have yet to be linked to a specific cause. Instead of a single causal factor, these cases are likely due to a complex interplay of subtle changes to gene expression or an increased susceptibility to environmental risk factors. The Grainyhead-like (Grhl) gene family is implicated in numerous developmental defects in humans. Using zebrafish and mouse animal models, this study characterises important roles for Grhl2 in development through novel regulatory pathways, enhancer modulation and environmental interaction.
In Good Times and in Bad: Dyadic Sleep Processes in Couples without Sleep Disorders and those Experiencing Insomnia
Creators: name: ELIZABETH MARIE WALTERS
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Clinical Psychology

description: Sleep is commonly viewed as an individual activity. However, most Australian adults sleep with a bedpartner. We don’t fully understand processes underpinning sleep when a couple shares a bed. This includes aspects such as how frequently a person is woken by their partner during the night. This thesis explores how bedpartners influence one another’s sleep. It also asks how sleep behaviours, sleep disorders, and mental health symptoms affect someone’s sensitivity to disturbance by a bedpartner.
Usage of mobile applications or mobile health technology to improve diet quality in adults
Creators: name: Scarry, Alan
name: Rice, Jennifer
name: O'Connor, Eibhlís
name: Tierney, Audrey
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 42
subject: Health sciences
subject: FOS: Health sciences
classificationCode: 4207
subject: Sports science and exercise

description: The use of mobile applications for dietary purposes has dramatically increased along with the consistent development of mobile technology. Assessing diet quality as a dietary pattern or an indicator across key food groups in comparison to those recommended by dietary guidelines is useful for identifying optimal nutrient intake. This systematic review aims to explore mobile applications and their impact on the diet quality of the user. The electronic databases of The Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (Cinahl), The American Psychological Association’s (APA Psycinfo), and PubMed were systematically searched for randomised and non-randomised controlled trials to retrieve papers from inception to November 2021. Ten studies with 1638 participants were included. A total of 5342 studies were retrieved from the database searches, with 10 articles eligible for final inclusion in the review. The sample sizes ranged from 27 to 732 participants across the included studies, with 1638 total participants. The ratio of female to male participants in the studies was 4:1. The majority of the mobile applications or M-health interventions were used to highlight dietary health changes (six studies), with the remainder used to reduce weight or blood sugar levels (four studies). Each study used a different measure to quantify diet quality. Studies were either assessed by diet quality scoring or individual dietary assessment, of the ten studies, six studies reported an improvement in diet quality following diet-related mobile application use. Mobile applications may be an effective way to improve diet quality in adults; however, there is a need for more targeted and longer-term studies that are expressly designed to investigate the impact using mobile applications has on diet quality.
The Development of a Criminal Identity Amongst Adolescent Males
Creators: name: TIMOTHY JAMES WARTON
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 160701 Clinical Social Work Practice
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Personality, Social and Criminal Psychology
subject: 160799 Social Work not elsewhere classified

description: By analysing the narratives of 20 young people in the criminal justice system, this thesis explores the development of a criminal identity. That is, the way that young people see themselves, the groups they fit into and the way they believe others see them regarding crime and criminality. This thesis has implications for providing a deeper understanding as to why some young people continue to commit crime as well as helping those who work with them.
Dirichlet Process Hidden Markov Multiple Change-point Model
Creators: name: Ko, Stanley I. M.
name: Chong, Terence T. L.
name: Ghosh, Pulak
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper proposes a new Bayesian multiple change-point model which is based on the hidden Markov approach. The Dirichlet process hidden Markov model does not require the specification of the number of change-points a priori. Hence our model is robust to model specification in contrast to the fully parametric Bayesian model. We propose a general Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm which only needs to sample the states around change-points. Simulations for a normal mean-shift model with known and unknown variance demonstrate advantages of our approach. Two applications, namely the coal-mining disaster data and the real United States Gross Domestic Product growth, are provided. We detect a single change-point for both the disaster data and US GDP growth. All the change-point locations and posterior inferences of the two applications are in line with existing methods.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/14-BA910 in the Bayesian Analysis (http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ba) by the International Society of Bayesian Analysis (http://bayesian.org/)
Antiretroviral Therapy for the Prevention of HIV-1 Transmission
Creators: name: Taha,
name: Eron,
name: McCauley,
name: Cohen,
name: Nielsen-Saines,
name: Gamble,
name: Cottle,
name: Pilotto,
name: Essex,
name: Mills,
name: Godbole,
name: Eshleman,
name: Panchia,
name: Makhema,
name: Hosseinipour,
name: Celentano,
name: Faesen,
name: Piwowar-Manning,
name: Redd,
name: Fleming,
name: Hoffman,
name: Hakim,
name: Elharrar,
name: Grinsztejn,
name: Zhang,
name: Hudelson,
name: Kumwenda,
name: Kumarasamy,
name: Santos,
name: Gallant,
name: Havlir,
name: Chariyalertsak,
name: Chen,
name: Swindells,
name: Mayer,
name: Burns,
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: An interim analysis of data from the HIV Prevention Trials Network (HPTN) 052 trial showed that antiretroviral therapy (ART) prevented more than 96% of genetically linked infections caused by human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) in serodiscordant couples. ART was then offered to all patients with HIV-1 infection (index participants). The study included more than 5 years of follow-up to assess the durability of such therapy for the prevention of HIV-1 transmission.
Measuring intelligibility in signed languages
Creators: name: Crowe, Kathryn
name: Marschark, Marc
name: McLeod, Sharynne
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Intelligibility of spoken languages is a widely discussed construct; however, intelligibility, as it pertains to signed languages, has rarely been considered. This study provides an initial investigation of the construct of intelligibility in American Sign Language (ASL) and evaluates potential measures for self-report and expert ratings of sign intelligibility that examined the frequency of understanding, amount of understanding, and ease of understanding. Participants were 66 college students (42 Deaf, 24 hearing) who had self-rated ASL skills ranging from poor to excellent. Participants rated their own intelligibility in ASL and then provided a signed language sample through a picture description task. Language samples were reviewed by an expert rater and measures of intelligibility were completed. Results indicated that expert ratings of sign intelligibility across all measures were significantly and positively correlated. Understanding of the signer was predicted by the amount of understanding, frequency of understanding, and ASL production skills, while understanding the picture being described was predicted by ease of understanding and ASL grammar skills. Self- and expert ratings of sign intelligibility using the ASL version of the Intelligibility in Context Scale were not significantly different. Self-report of sign intelligibility for viewers of different familiarity using the ICS-ASL was found not to be feasible due to many participants not being in contact with ASL users in the relationships defined by the measure. In conclusion, this preliminary investigation suggests that sign intelligibility is a construct worthy of further investigation.
Investigating the role of cognitive risk factors and underlying neurobiological processes associated with chronic low back pain
Creators: name: Ng, Sin Ki
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Neuroscience

description: This thesis examines the role of cognition and underlying brain mechanisms in the development and persistence of low back pain. The findings indicate impaired cognitive processes related to how we perceive and cope with pain and altered brain activity contribute to the clinical presentation of chronic low back pain. This research therefore suggests that cognition and neurobiological processes may be driving factors for chronic low back pain and could be used as targets for interventions.
Sisyrinchium balansae Baker, Handb. Irid.
Creators: name: Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña
name: Egea, Juana De
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Plantae
Tracheophyta
Liliopsida
Asparagales
Iridaceae
Sisyrinchium
Sisyrinchium balansae

description: Sisyrinchium balansae Baker, Handb. Irid. 133. 1892.
Herb.
 Vouchers: Caazapá: (Zuloaga et al. 2015). Guairá: (Zuloaga et al. 2015). Unknown: Balansa 547 (G, K).
description: Published as part of Chocarro, María Del Carmen Peña & Egea, Juana De, 2018, Checklist of the endemic vascular plants of Paraguay, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 384 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.384.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13725946
Cross-cultural examination of intrusive autobiographical memories recalled during depression
Creators: name: STELLA STANISLAVOVA MIHAILOVA
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Clinical Psychology

description: Depression is a disabling psychological condition that is affecting a growing number of people worldwide. Those with depression often recall spontaneous, distressing memories. These memories have been shown to contribute to the persistence of depressive symptoms. This thesis examined if the experience of these memories varies between cultures. Culture has been shown to affect how people remember personal experiences and how they respond to stressful experiences. Findings from this thesis indicated that the content of memories was largely similar between participants from European Australian and East Asian backgrounds. Furthermore, certain responses to memories were found to be unhelpful cross-culturally.
Defining Clinically Meaningful Outcomes in Pulmonary Fibrosis
Creators: name: Prasad, Jyotika Devi
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Medicine

description: Daily physical activity is reduced in patients with Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and is associated with conventional markers of disease progression. Annual physical activity has a proportionally larger decline than lung function. Although baseline physical activity was a poor predictor of 12 month transplant free survival, a daily step count of >= 3531 steps is associated with increased survival.
Benefits and Risks of Antiretroviral Therapy for Perinatal HIV Prevention
Creators: name: Basar,
name: Qin,
name: Violari,
name: Loftis,
name: Bhosale,
name: Strehlau,
name: McIntyre,
name: Bobat,
name: Browning,
name: Flynn,
name: Currier,
name: Gnanashanmugam,
name: Mlay,
name: Mofenson,
name: Siberry,
name: Fowler,
name: Moodley,
name: Purdue,
name: Chi,
name: Owor,
name: Shapiro,
name: Fiscus,
name: Coletti,
name: Martinson,
name: Klingman,
name: Theron,
name: Fenton,
name: Taha,
name: Chipato,
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Randomized-trial data on the risks and benefits of antiretroviral therapy (ART) as compared with zidovudine and single-dose nevirapine to prevent transmission of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) in HIV-infected pregnant women with high CD4 counts are lacking.
Implementing perinatal mental health screening for women of refugee background: an evaluation
Creators: name: SUZANNE MARGARET WILLEY
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Health Care
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 111006 Midwifery

description: The perinatal mental health screening program was developed because up to 1 in 5 women feel depressed or anxious when pregnant or after having a baby. Women of refugee background may be more likely to be at risk of depression and anxiety in pregnancy. 274 women from refugee and non-refugee backgrounds were recruited to the study. We found 34% had both depression and anxiety symptoms in early pregnancy. Women and maternity care providers agreed the program helped to improve conversations about mental health. This screening program provides evidence for how to scale-up the program to the broader maternity service.
Individual, community and societal burden following acute hand and wrist injury
Creators: name: LUKE STEVEN ROBINSON
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 110321 Rehabilitation and Therapy (excl. Physiotherapy)
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 140208 Health Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Injuries to the hand and wrist are common and account for a significant amount of emergency department presentations. The burden placed on the individual, community and society as a result of these injuries can be substantial; however, the actual cost of these injuries in Australia is mostly unknown. Using various methods, this research found that these injuries have the potential to lead to substantial costs and impacts on the individual patient, their families, the workplace, the public health system and broader society in Australia. Recommendations for reducing the burden at the individual, workplace, health system levels, and society are provided.
Influence of chirping the Raman lasers in an atom gravimeter: phase shifts due to the Raman light shift and to the finite speed of light
Creators: name: Cheng, B.
name: Gillot, P.
name: Merlet, S.
name: Santos, F. Pereira Dos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present here an analysis of the influence of the frequency dependence of the Raman laser light shifts on the phase of a Raman-type atom gravimeter. Frequency chirps are applied to the Raman lasers in order to compensate gravity and ensure the resonance of the Raman pulses during the interferometer. We show that the change in the Raman light shift when this chirp is applied only to one of the two Raman lasers is enough to bias the gravity measurement by a fraction of $μ$Gal ($1~μ$Gal~=~$10^{-8}$~m/s$^2$). We also show that this effect is not compensated when averaging over the two directions of the Raman wavevector $k$. This thus constitutes a limit to the rejection efficiency of the $k$-reversal technique. Our analysis allows us to separate this effect from the effect of the finite speed of light, which we find in perfect agreement with expected values. This study highlights the benefit of chirping symmetrically the two Raman lasers.
Personality traits and negative consequences associated with binge drinking and marijuana use in college students
Creators: name: O’Leary, Daniel S.
name: Langbehn, Douglas R.
name: Kramer, John R.
name: Kuperman, Samuel
name: Fuhrmeister, Lindsey A.
name: Vaidya, Jatin G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Background: Binge drinking is common in college students, and many drink in quantities greater than the standard definition of bingeing. Combined use of additional substances, particularly marijuana, is also common. Objectives: Increased impulsivity and sensation seeking are risk factors for bingeing, and this study was designed to characterize their association with extreme compared to standard bingeing, as well as with combined bingeing and marijuana use. Negative consequences of alcohol use were also investigated. Methods: Self-report personality measures and a measure of the negative consequences of alcohol use were given to a sample of 221 college students (109 females) sorted into a control and 4 binge groups based upon their patterns of bingeing and marijuana use. Narrowly defined, non-overlapping measures of impulsivity and sensation seeking were analyzed to assess the association of these personality measures with substance-use patterns and negative consequences of bingeing. Results: Standard bingers did not differ from non-bingeing controls on either impulsivity or sensation seeking, whereas extreme bingers had significantly higher impulsivity and sensation seeking scores than controls and also significantly higher sensation seeking than standard bingers. Exploratory analyses of a broader set of personality scales showed that a disinhibition scale was also significant predictor of substance use group. A number of personality traits significantly predicted substance use patterns as well as specific negative consequences of bingeing. Conclusions: Impulsivity, sensation seeking and disinhibition are significant associates of substance use patterns and the negative consequences of use in college students.
El modelo 3D como base para la documentación y difusión de los elementos patrimoniales. Aplicación al mausoleo romano denominado ‘la Sinagoga’ de Sádaba (Zaragoza, España).
Creators: name: Valle Melón, José Manuel
name: Pérez Vidiella, Pablo
name: Miranda, Álvaro Rodríguez
name: Velasco, Jerónimo Sánchez
name: D’Anna, Chiara Maria
name: Uceda Queirós, Sandra
name: Gardoki, Ortzi Akizu
Publisher: name: Restauro Archeologico
Year: 2016

description: A case study of a project for the geometric documentation of a roman mausoleum from the 4th century is used as the overarching element in order to put forward a reflection on some of the steps for the process of documentation itself, as well as on the utility of the outcomes. The main issues considered are: (1) documentation project, (2) three-dimensional modeling, (3) use of different kinds of two-dimensional and three-dimensional representations, (4) Augmented Reality and (5) archive and dissemination of information.
description: Restauro Archeologico, Vol. 24 No. 1 (2016)
Reading the invisible: the role of optical investigations in the study of the Herculaneum papyri
Creators: name: Longo, Sveva
name: Samela, Sabrina
name: Caliri, Claudia
name: Pavone, Danilo Paolo
name: Romano, Francesco Paolo
name: Rosi, Francesca
name: Ranocchia, Graziano
name: Miliani, Costanza
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Greek papyrology, Ancient philosophy, Shortwave-Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging, TeraHertz Imaging, Optical Coherence Tomography, X-Ray Fluorescence Mapping, 3D Microscopy, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Relaxometry

description: Herculaneum papyri found during the discovery of the Villa dei Papiri in the XVIII century are our only knowledge about Greek philosophical schools. Unfortunately, the original manuscripts are in a precarious state of conservation and the currently available editions of them have largely been made obsolete by the latest technological progress. The aim of the Advanced Grant ERC project ‘Greekschools’ is to provide a new protocol based on optical methods to increase the text reading and thus allow for a new critical edition of the whole treatise of Philodemus’ "Arrangement of the Philosophers". A multi-disciplinary approach is adopted and non-invasive techniques to Herculaneum papyri investigations such as Macro X-Ray Fluorescence Imaging (MA-XRF), Shortwave-Infrared Hyperspectral Imaging (SWIR), high resolution digital microscopy and Technical Photography were applied to read the text hidden on the verso, detect, classify, and replace overlapping layers and read the text concealed inside them. In this work some first preliminary results will be reported.
Villa Adriana, esperienze di rilievo digitale ed analisi per il restauro e la musealizzazione dell’Edificio dei Pilastri Dorici
Creators: name: Bertocci, Stefano
name: Minutoli, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Restauro Archeologico
Year: 2016

description: To speak about restoration and enhancement of the great archaeological sites such as Pompei, Herculaneum, Agrigento, and Villa Adriana in Tivoli, just to name a few, means to raise questions regarding protection and safeguarding that often are not easily reconcilable with the use of the sites by tourists and scholars. We have previously proposed a first step regarding a surveying project, using 3D laser scanner digital technologies, for the realization of plans, sections, and reliable models to architectural scale and detail, to constitute the fundamental knowledge, base for any exercise of critical and interpretive activities related to training and the development of conservation and restoration activities. The construction of Villa Adriana began from around 117 A.D. by the homonymous emperor, as his residence outside Rome. It occupies an area of 120 hectares on the Tiburtini Mountains south east of Tivoli. In the nineteenth century, when the first restoration work began, the Kingdom of Italy partly purchased the Villa; the works had infiltrated almost all components of the villa buildings. In the central area of Hadrian’s palace there is the so-called Hall of Doric pillars, which probably welcomed those who were waiting to be admitted to the emperor’s presence. The conservation project of building structures was driven by the business practices and with the idea of protecting and safeguarding the artifact without providing for the reconstruction of the pillar system and / or the perimeter walls. The structural analysis of the system has highlighted the structural inadequacy of the peristyle portion rebuilt in 1956. The idea of this first experimental project is to present to visitors a knowledge and learning process, with multiple levels of historical and scientific study, based not only on exposure to passive objects or drawings, but on technological devices, touch screens, and projections, that allow the users of the spaces of the villa to travel back in time to the Hadrian period.
description: Restauro Archeologico, Vol. 24 No. 1 (2016)
The nearby Galaxy structure toward the Vela Gum nebula
Creators: name: Giorgi, E. E.
name: Solivella, G. R.
name: Perren, G. I.
name: Vázquez, R. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on $UBVI$ photometry and spectroscopy for MK classification purposes carried out in the fields of five open clusters projected against the Vela Gum in the Third Galactic Quadrant of the Galaxy. They are Ruprecht 20, Ruprecht 47, Ruprecht 60, NGC 2660 and NGC 2910. We could improve/confirm the parameters of these objects derived before. The spectroscopic parallax method has been applied to several stars located in the fields of four out of the five clusters to get their distances and reddenings. With this method we found two blue stars in the field of NGC 2910 at distances that make them likely members of Vela OB1 too. Also, projected against the fields of Ruprecht 20 and Ruprecht 47 we have detected other young stars favoring not only the existence of Puppis OB1 and OB2 but conforming a young stellar group at $\sim1$ kpc from the Sun and extending for more than 6 kpc outward the Galaxy. If this is the case, there is a thickening of the thin Galactic disk of more than 300 pc at just 2-3 kpc from the Sun. Ruprecht 60 and NGC 2660 are too old objects that have no physical relation with the associations under discussion. An astonishing result has been the detection in the background of Ruprecht 47 of a young star at the impressive distance of 9.5 kpc from the Sun that could be a member of the innermost part of the Outer Arm. Another far young star in the field of NGC 2660, at near 6.0 kpc, may become a probable member of the Perseus Arm or of the inner part of the Local Arm. The distribution of young clusters and stars onto the Third Galactic Quadrant agrees with recent findings concerning the extension of the Local Arm as revealed by parallaxes of regions of star formation. We show evidences too that added to previous ones found by our group explain the thickening of the thin disk as a combination of flare and warp.
description: Accepted for publication in New Astronomy