cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
FACTORS ASSOCIATED WITH FRAILTY AND SARCOPENIA IN OLDER ADULTS WITH SYSTEMIC ARTERIAL HYPERTENSION
Creators: name: de Brito Matiello, Fernanda
name: Fernandes, Daiane
name: Kobayasi, Dieyeni
name: da Costa Lima, Nereida
name: Rodrigues, Rosalina
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Geriatric Nursing
subject: Public Health and Community Nursing
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: #elderly
subject: #frailty
subject: #sarcopenia
subject: #systemicarterialhypertension

description: To analyze the knowledge produced in the scientific literature on the factors associated with frailty and sarcopenia in older adults with Systemic Arterial Hypertension. The methodology proposed is an Integrative Literature Review, based on the following steps: problem formulation and identification, data collection, data evaluation, analysis and interpretation of collected data, and data presentation. For the definition of the research, the PICo strategy was considered, represented by (P) patient - “older adults with Systemic Arterial Hypertension”, (I) intervention “identification of associated factors” and (Co) context “frailty and sarcopenia”, which resulted in the following guiding question: What evidence is available in the scientific literature regarding the factors associated with frailty and sarcopenia in older adults with systemic arterial hypertension? The search will be performed in PubMed - National Library of Medicine National Institutes of Health, EMBASE - Excerpta Medica Database, LILACS - Latin American and Caribbean Center on Health Sciences Information, Web of Science, and AgeLine databases.
Organizational factors associated with readiness to implement and translate a primary care based telemedicine behavioral program to improve blood pressure control: the HTN-IMPROVE study
Creators: name: Weiner, Bryan
name: Zullig, Leah
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2013

description: Abstract Background Hypertension is prevalent and often sub-optimally controlled; however, interventions to improve blood pressure control have had limited success. Objectives Through implementation of an evidence-based nurse-delivered self-management phone intervention to facilitate hypertension management within large complex health systems, we sought to answer the following questions: What is the level of organizational readiness to implement the intervention? What are the specific facilitators, barriers, and contextual factors that may affect organizational readiness to change? Study design Each intervention site from three separate Veterans Integrated Service Networks (VISNs), which represent 21 geographic regions across the US, agreed to enroll 500 participants over a year with at least 0.5 full time equivalent employees of nursing time. Our mixed methods approach used a priori semi-structured interviews conducted with stakeholders (n = 27) including nurses, physicians, administrators, and information technology (IT) professionals between 2010 and 2011. Researchers iteratively identified facilitators and barriers of organizational readiness to change (ORC) and implementation. Additionally, an ORC survey was conducted with the stakeholders who were (n = 102) preparing for program implementation. Results Key ORC facilitators included stakeholder buy-in and improving hypertension. Positive organizational characteristics likely to impact ORC included: other similar programs that support buy-in, adequate staff, and alignment with the existing site environment; improved patient outcomes; is positive for the professional nurse role, and is evidence-based; understanding of the intervention; IT infrastructure and support, and utilization of existing equipment and space. The primary ORC barrier was unclear long-term commitment of nursing. Negative organizational characteristics likely to impact ORC included: added workload, competition with existing programs, implementation length, and limited available nurse staff time; buy-in is temporary until evidence shows improved outcomes; contacting patients and the logistics of integration into existing workflow is a challenge; and inadequate staffing is problematic. Findings were complementary across quantitative and qualitative analyses. Conclusions The model of organizational change identified key facilitators and barriers of organizational readiness to change and successful implementation. This study allows us to understand the needs and challenges of intervention implementation. Furthermore, examination of organizational facilitators and barriers to implementation of evidence-based interventions may inform dissemination in other chronic diseases.
Sustainable Consumption and Production
Creators: name: Loconto, Allison Marie
name: Psarikidou, Katerina
name: Dwiartama, Angga
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2023

description: This editorial introduction discusses the science-policy interface at a global level focused on the linking of sustainable consumption and production. It examines how political spaces can offer opportunities for epistemic communities to enter into this space in order to advance the co-production of knowledge and politics on sustaianble consumption and production. The editorial also introduces the innovative approch to book reviews that the journal has adopted.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 29 No. 1 (2023): Regular Issue
Clustering electricity consumption patterns at household level
Creators: name: Quesada, Carlos
name: Borges, Cruz E.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: clustering
electricity consumption
energy
data science
machine learning
time series
feature extraction
consumption patterns
households

description: This repository contains: A notebook in R language presenting a methodology, in line with the Data Science process, for clustering electricity consumption patterns at the household level. Sixty files selected from the GoiEner dataset to illustrate the methodology. Links: The notebook hosted here is also available on Google Colab. The GoiEner smart meter data can be found here. A 90-minute video of a detailed presentation of the notebook, with precise explanations for its follow-up, can be viewed on YouTube (Carlos Quesada, ECEMP 2022 Conference). A scientific paper with more information is being prepared and will be linked here when published.
Why do local plant proteins not take off?
Creators: name: Kortetmäki, Teea
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2023

description: This study examines the potential of local plant proteins in promoting sustainable dietary transition in public catering and, simultaneously, helping rural regions find sustainable livelihoods in the future. Environmental and health reasons call for a transition to more plant-based diets in Western countries. This poses a livelihood challenge for many rural/semi-rural regions that are currently livestock-dominated. Local plant protein crops could be a ‘win-win’ solution, both for promoting dietary transition and for supporting local rural economies – presently two conflicting objectives in regions where animal production prevails. This study is based on a development project in which local public catering actors undertook to increase the use of local plant proteins. It analyses public actors’ rationalities that explain actions and inactions for sustainability transition and the positioning of plant proteins therein. Results demonstrate how the dominant catering rationalities, and mismatches between regime and niche actor rationalities, hinder the mainstreaming of local plant proteins. The discussion reflects upon ways to overcome these barriers.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 29 No. 1 (2023): Regular Issue
Integrated Space Weather Analysis an early adopter of the HAPI standard
Creators: name: R. Mullinix, C. P. Wiegand
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: ISWA CCMC HAPI Standards

description: The integrated Space Weather Analysis (iSWA) system developed by the Community Coordinated Modeling Center (CCMC) is a flexible Web-based dissemination system for NASA-relevant space weather information that combines forecasts based on the most advanced space weather models with concurrent space environment information. In addition to near real time observation data, iSWA also provides access to easy to understand continuous/real-time model output executed at the CCMC. Such information is extremely valuable to the community in understanding, monitoring, and forecasting the space environment for various purposes which can range from education to advanced research in near real-time or past time periods. Providing easy and open access to such information to the community has always been an important goal at the CCMC. Prior to HAPI, iSWA has already implemented a few custom APIs for users to access the files and data processed and stored in the iSWA archive. When the HAPI standard was first introduced, iSWA was one of their early adopters to implement the standard when accessing iSWA numerical data. In this presentation, we will give an overview of iSWA and various options that users have to access all information stored in our archive. In addition, we will demonstrate the importance and usefulness of having standardized APIs that the community can adopt in support of better interoperability.
Alternative Food Networks from the Institutional Perspective
Creators: name: Śpiewak, Ruta
name: Goszczyński, Wojciech
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2023

description: This article analyses the internal diversity and dynamics of Polish Alternative Food Networks (AFNs), using the concept of institutions and their impact on collective action as a theoretical tool. Emphasis is put on four dimensions of AFNs’ internal diversity: meanings, association models, control mechanisms, and actions. The analysis is based on empirical material collected from nationwide qualitative studies conducted in six AFNs selected through purposive sampling. While adhering to a similar system of values focused on individual health, family and profit, the networks differ from one another in terms of the prevalent models of relationships, supervision, and activity. They appear to share certain motives and values in their market-oriented or own security-oriented actions and strategies, and show an inclination to use formal tools. In parallel, they reveal differences in their levels of focus on building internal relationships, which also emerge as the primary factor determining the potential and activity of the studied initiatives.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 29 No. 1 (2023): Regular Issue
Optimal Scheduling in Multiserver Queues
Creators: name: Grosof, Isaac
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2023
Subjects: Theoretical Computer Science

description: Scheduling theory is a key tool for reducing latency (i.e. response time) in queueing systems. Scheduling, i.e. choosing the order in which to serve jobs, can reduce response time by an order of magnitude with no additional resources. Scheduling theory is well-developed in single-server systems, where one job is processed at a time. However, little is known about scheduling in multiserver systems, where many jobs are processed at once. Results are especially limited in stochastic multiserver scheduling theory. Today’s datacenters have thousands of servers, and scheduling theory is unable to analyze such systems. This thesis proves the first optimality results and first closed-form bounds on mean response time for scheduling policies in stochastic multiserver models which reflect the behavior of modern computing systems. The thesis explores three themes: I start by studying one-server-per-job multiserver models, and prove the first results on optimal scheduling in that setting. Optimality results are proven for both a central-queue model and a dispatching model. I invent a novel class of dispatching policies, guardrails, to achieve these results. Next, I study the multiserver-job (MSJ) model, where different jobs require different amounts of resources to be served. I prove the first characterization of mean response time for any scheduling policy in the MSJ model, as well as the first optimality results. I invent novel scheduling policies, ServerFilling and ServerFilling-SRPT, to achieve these results. Finally, I study the effects of scheduling on the tail of response time, rather than mean response time. The prior state-of-the-art for scheduling for the tail was First-Come First-Served, which was conjectured to achieve optimal asymptotic tail of response time. I invent a novel scheduling policy, Nudge, which I prove to be the first policy to outperform FCFS’s asymptotic tail of response time.
Breast cancer biologic and etiologic heterogeneity by young age and menopausal status in the Carolina Breast Cancer Study: a case-control study
Creators: name: Troester, Melissa
name: Yang, Yang
name: Bell, Mary Beth
name: Tse, Chiu-Kit
name: Olshan, Andrew
name: Chollet-Hinton, Lynn
name: Anders, Carey
name: Carey, Lisa
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Abstract Background Young-onset breast cancer (<40 years) is associated with worse prognosis and higher mortality. Breast cancer risk factors may contribute to distinct tumor biology and distinct age at onset, but understanding of these relationships has been hampered by limited representation of young women in epidemiologic studies and may be confounded by menopausal status. Methods We examined tumor characteristics and epidemiologic risk factors associated with premenopausal women’s and young women’s breast cancer in phases I–III of the Carolina Breast Cancer Study (5309 cases, 2022 control subjects). Unconditional logistic regression was used to assess heterogeneity by age (<40 vs. ≥40 years) and menopausal status. Results In both premenopausal and postmenopausal strata, younger women had more aggressive disease, including higher stage, hormone receptor-negative, disease as well as increased frequency of basal-like subtypes, lymph node positivity, and larger tumors. Higher waist-to-hip ratio was associated with reduced breast cancer risk among young women but with elevated risk among older women. Parity was associated with increased risk among young women and reduced risk among older women, while breastfeeding was more strongly protective for young women. Longer time since last birth was protective for older women but not for young women. In comparison, when we stratified by age, menopausal status was not associated with distinct risk factor or tumor characteristic profiles, except for progesterone receptor status, which was more commonly positive among premenopausal women. Conclusions Age is a key predictor of breast cancer biologic and etiologic heterogeneity and may be a stronger determinant of heterogeneity than menopausal status. Young women’s breast cancer appears to be etiologically and biologically distinct from that among older women.
Feeding Versus Feedback in AGN from Near-Infrared IFU Observations XI: NGC 2110
Creators: name: Diniz, Marlon R.
name: Riffel, Rogemar A.
name: Storchi-Bergmann, Thaisa
name: Winge, Claudia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a two-dimensional mapping of the gas flux distributions, as well as of the gas and stellar kinematics in the inner 220 pc of the Seyfert galaxy NGC 2110, using K-band integral field spectroscopy obtained with the Gemini NIFS at a spatial resolution of ~24pc and spectral resolution of ~40 km/s. The H2 emission extends over the whole field-of-view and is attributed to heating by X-rays from the AGN and/or by shocks, while the Brgamma emission is restricted to a bi-polar region extending along the South-East-North-West direction. The masses of the warm molecular gas and of the ionized gas are ~1.4x10^3 Msun and ~1.8x10^6 Msun, respectively. The stellar kinematics present velocity dispersions reaching 250km/s and a rotation pattern reaching an amplitude of 200 km/s. The gas velocity fields present a similar rotation pattern but also additional components that we attribute to inflows and outflows most clearly observed in the molecular gas emission. The inflows are observed beyond the inner 70 pc and are associated to a spiral arm seen in blueshift to the North-East and another in redshift to the South-West. We have estimated a mass inflow rate in warm molecular gas of ~4.6x10^-4 Msun/year. Within the inner 70 pc, another kinematic component is observed in the H2 emission that can be interpreted as due to a bipolar nuclear outflow oriented along the East-West direction, with a mass-outflow rate of ~4.3x10^-4 Msun/year in warm H2.
description: in MNRAS, 2015
title: Clinical evaluation of a new X-ray imaging system based on Talbot-Lau interferometry: comparison of patients with rheumatoid arthritis to healthy volunteers
Creators: name: Tanaka, Junji
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Musculoskeletal joint
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Experimental
subject: Equipment
subject: Experimental investigations
subject: Instrumentation
subject: Arthritides

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: We developed an X-ray phase imaging system which does not depend of photon absorptionand are studying its feasibility for clinical diagnosis of joint diseases. To evaluate the characteristics of images obtained in a hospital from normal volunteers...
The role of schools in providing educational opportunity: A systematic review
Creators: name: Katz, Heidi
name: Acquah, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: The purpose of this review is to better understand what schools have done, and can do, to ensure equal opportunities for all their students, regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, socioeconomic status (SES), and other external factors.
title: The Study on Effect of Radiation Dose and Image by Applying Eclipse Collimator techniques
Creators: name: Jung, Juhyun
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Radiation effects
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Comparative studies
subject: CT
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: With the technological development of CT systems, most of CT systems use the helical mode more frequently than the axial one in order to reduce dose applied to patients and to shorten the duration of examination. When using the helical scan...
Preliminary evaluation of Speswhite kaolin as a physical analogue material for unsaturated oil sands tailings
Creators: Tony Zheng
Nicholas Beier
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2023

Thin-lift deposition of treated oil sands tailings is currently investigated as a potential solution for creating a trafficable cap layer for future reclamation activities. To determine the optimal thickness of the cap layer, physical modeling experiments using the 50g-ton geotechnical beam centrifuge at University of Alberta were proposed. Prior to the deposition of fresh layers, the cap layer is often unsaturated due to freeze-thaw and atmospheric drying. In this paper, Speswhite kaolin is investigated as the candidate for a physical analogue of unsaturated oil sands tailings. Due to its high brightness and repeatability, Speswhite kaolin has been widely used as a modeling clay in geotechnical centrifuge experiments. However, its suitability of simulating unsaturated tailings with high clay content was rarely considered in the past. Two different sample preparation methods using Tempe cells and air-drying to create blocks of unsaturated Speswhite kaolin are evaluated. Undrained shear strength was measured by the miniature vane shear device and unconfined compression test while drained shear strength was determined by the direct shear device. Test results showed that the two materials behaved similarly in drained conditions while Speswhite kaolin exhibited a higher shear sensitivity in undrained conditions. Test results also showed different drying behaviour between the two materials: Speswhite kaolin dries faster, more uniformly and to a higher void ratio than treated oil sands tailings. Potential causes behind these observations are discussed in the paper.
Cenário da publicação fonoaudiológica brasileira na área voz do professor: um protocolo de revisão de escopo
Creators: name: de Morais, Edna
name: de Almeida Porto, Vanessa
name: Cardoso, Lavinia
name: de Araújo Santos, Marcelo
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Speech and Hearing Science
subject: Speech Pathology and Audiology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Communication Sciences and Disorders
subject: Rehabilitation and Therapy
subject: Dysphonia
subject: Professional voice
subject: Speech Therapy
subject: Teacher
subject: Voice
subject: voice disorders

description: Mapear e analisar as publicações sobre voz do professor, em periódicos nacionais de Fonoaudiologia, entre o período de janeiro de 2011 a março 2021.
Front Porch for Critical Agrifood Studies
Creators: name: Carolan, Michael
name: Hale, James
name: Bjørkhaug, Hilde
name: Dwiartama, Angga
name: Hatanaka, Maki
name: Hiraga, Midori
name: Legun, Katharine
name: Loconto, Allison
name: Wolf, Steven
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2022

description: In this editorial, the outgoing Executive Committee of the Research Committee on the Sociology of Agriculture and Food of the International Sociological Association (RC40) reflects on a high-level, unifying characteristic that animates the intellectual puzzles and socio-ecological challenges that constitute critical agrifood scholarship. The reflection is introduced as a means to characterise the field, almost 40 years after its first plantlings began to sprout in the fields of agricultural economics, rural sociology, human geography and environmental studies. At the same time, this editorial is a means to (re)introduce RC40 to readers. RC40 is a dynamic, international, welcoming network of agrifood scholars. The heart of RC40’s dynamism is found in its journal: the International Journal of the Sociology of Agriculture and food (IJSAF). These platforms offer the type of inclusive spaces needed to drive intellectual exchange, while expanding critically oriented communities of practice in the pursuit of equitable, sustainable, transformative change within parts of and across different sites in the food system.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 28 No. 2 (2022): Regular Issue
title: Does new generation CT brain scan alone rule out subarachnoid haemorrhage
Creators: name: Perumal, Sounder
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Emergency
subject: CNS
subject: CT
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Acute
subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Cerebrospinal fluid

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To determine the sensitivity of new generation CT brain (NGCT) scan done within 6 hours of the onset of headache in patients with suspected non-traumatic subarachnoid haemorrhage...
title: Improvement of diagnostic confidence for detection of multiple myeloma involvement of the ribs by a new CT-software generating rib unfolded images
Creators: name: Homann, Georg
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Bones
subject: Oncology
subject: Thorax
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Technology assessment
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Multiple myeloma (MM) accounts for approximately 10% of the hematologic malignancies and up to 90% of MM patients develop osteolytic or sclerotic bone lesions ( myeloma bone disease ) during the course of their disease [1,2]. The extent of myeloma...
title: Implantation of central venous totally implantable access ports (TIAP) in patients with severe thrombopenia
Creators: name: Keulers, Annika
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Oncology
subject: Veins / Vena cava
subject: Catheter venography
subject: Venous access
subject: Safety
subject: Complications
subject: Haematologic diseases

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Implantation of a central venous totally implantable access port (TIAP) is a wide-spread procedure in preparation for systemic therapy, especially in oncologic patients requiring chemotherapy. In addition to the surgical TIAP-implantation minimal...
Generalized Zee-Babu model with 750 GeV Diphoton Resonance
Creators: name: Nomura, Takaaki
name: Okada, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a generalized Zee-Babu model with a global $U(1)$ B-L symmetry, in which we classify the model in terms of the number of the hypercharge $N/2$ of the isospin doublet exotic charged fermions. Corresponding to each of the number of $N$, we need to introduce some multiply charged bosons in order to make the exotic fields decay into the standard model fields. We also discuss the muon anomalous magnetic moment and the diphoton excess depending on $N$, and we show what kind of models are in favor of these phenomenologies.
description: 21 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. published version
Celiac disease_Nutrition_Lebanon
Creators: name: Hoteit, Maha
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences

description: Celiac disease data Lebanon: Background: Celiac disease (CD) is an autoimmune disorder triggered by gluten, occurs in susceptible individuals and is associated with dietary restriction and subsequent nutritional deficiencies. This study investigates the diet quality, the nutrition imbalances and the nutrition status among young children, adolescents and adults with CD who had referred to many hospitals in Lebanon. Methods: A cross-sectional study in 50 individuals (31.74 ± 15.64 years) with CD was conducted, using biochemical parameters, anthropometric measurements, dietary and physical activity assessment. Results: Out of 50 participants, 38% and 16% were presenting low serum levels of iron and vitamin B12, respectively. The majority of participants were physically inactive and around 40% of them had low muscle mass. A weight loss of 10% to 30% indicating mild to moderate malnutrition were shown in 14% of individuals. The assessment of food related behaviors shows that 80% of participants were reading nutrition labels and 96% of them were following gluten free diet (GFD). Some barriers of which: family ignorance (6%), language on the nutrition labels (20%) and expensive GF products (78%) were limiting the adherence to GFD. The inadequacy of the daily energy intake along with insufficient intakes of calcium and vitamin D were remarked among individuals with CD. However, protein and iron intake were exceeding the recommendations among all age groups, except in males aged 4-8 years and 19-30 years. Half the study participants were using dietary supplements where 38%, 10%, 46%, 18%, 16% and 4% used vitamin D, vitamin B12, Iron, calcium, folate and probiotics, respectively. Conclusion: The GFD is the key treatment for CD. However, it is not without inadequacies and may cause certain deficiencies such as calcium and vitamin D leading to reduced bone density. This underlines the critical role of dietitians in education and maintenance of healthy GFD among individuals with CD.
title: What are we looking at? Is it a Non-compaction cardiomyopathy?
Creators: name: Calvo Rado, Néstor
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Hyperplasia / Hypertrophy
subject: Education and training
subject: Normal variants
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: Education
subject: MR
subject: Cardiovascular system
subject: Cardiac

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To review the Non-compaction cardiomyopathy (NCM) and to make an appropiate differential diagnosis,exposing radiologists to a series of challenging cases in order to help improve the radiologist’s diagnostic accuracy when facing such...
Building Solidarity in the Slow Food Movement
Creators: name: Shawki, Noha
name: Hunter, Gina L.
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2022

description: Collective transnational efforts to create a more just, sustainable, and peaceful world must confront diversity and inequities associated with differential position and power. How movements deal with social disparities among participants impacts movement persistence, legitimacy, and efficacy. Slow Food International is a transnational movement that envisions good, clean, and fair food for all. Slow Food’s mobilization takes various forms across the globe, and its millions of participants are highly diverse in terms of race, ethnicity, national origin, and other dimensions of identity. In this article, we use the framework of active solidarity to consider how the international Slow Food movement has mobilized its diverse participants across global disparities and with what implications. Between 2018 and 2021 we conducted semistructured interviews with 24 movement leaders, Slow Food staff, and representatives from international development partners. Drawing on these interviews we consider the specific discourse, practices, procedures, and organizational structures that the Slow Food movement has used to address inequities and center the identities and experiences of marginalized communities. The Slow Food case provides an example of how civil society groups might adopt processes and practices that will not only deepen solidarity and inclusion, but also position them to realize their goals. Drawing on interviews with Slow Food leaders and partners from different parts of the world, this article considers the ways in which the aspiration to build solidarity and an inclusive movement is reflected in the discourse, practices, procedures, and organizational structures of the Slow Food movement. In addressing these issues, this article provides perspectives on how the identities and experiences of marginalized communities could be centered in the global food movement and how civil society-led efforts to build a more just and sustainable food system might adopt processes and practices that will not only deepen solidarity and inclusion, but also position the movement to realize its goals.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 28 No. 2 (2022): Regular Issue
Finding what works: identification of implementation strategies for the integration of methadone maintenance therapy and HIV services in Vietnam
Creators: name: Ha, Tran V
name: Mai, Nguyen T
name: Go, Vivian
name: Morales, Giuliana J
name: Miller, William
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2016

description: Abstract Background Integration of methadone maintenance therapy (MMT) and HIV services is an evidence-based intervention (EBI) that benefits HIV care and reduces costs. While MMT/HIV integration is recommended by the World Health Organization and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, it is not widely implemented, due to organizational and operational barriers. Our study applied an innovative process to identify implementation strategies to address these barriers. Methods Our process was adapted from the Expert Recommendations for Implementing Change (ERIC) protocol and consisted of two main phases. In Phase 1, we conducted 16 in-depth interviews with stakeholders and developed matrices to display barriers to integration. In Phase 2, we selected implementation strategies that addressed the barriers identified in Phase 1 and conducted a poll to vote on the most important and feasible strategies among a panel with expertise in cultural context and implementation science. Results Barriers fell into two broad categories: policy and programmatic. At the policy level, barriers included lack of a national mandate, different structures (MMT vs. HIV clinic) for cost reimbursement and staff salaries, and resistance on the part of staff to take on additional tasks without compensation. Programmatic barriers included the need for cross-training in MMT and HIV tasks, staff accountability, and commitment from local leaders. In Phase 2, we focused on programmatic challenges. Based on voting results and iterative dialogue with our expert panel, we selected several implementation strategies in the domains of technical assistance, staff accountability, and local commitment that targeted these barriers. Conclusions Key programmatic barriers to MMT/HIV integration in Vietnam may be addressed through implementation strategies that focus on technical assistance, staff accountability, and local commitment. Our process of identifying implementation strategies was simple, low cost, and potentially replicable to other settings.
A Dynamical Systems Framework for Resilience in Ecology
Creators: name: Meyer, Katherine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems (nlin.AO)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Rising interest in the resilience of ecological systems has spawned diverse interpretations of the term's precise meaning. This paper classifies and explores definitions of resilience from the ecological literature using a dynamical systems framework. A model consisting of ordinary differential equations is assumed to represent the ecological system. The question "resilience of what to what?" posed by Carpenter et al. [2001] informs two broad categories of definitions, based on resilience to state variable perturbations and to parameter changes, respectively. Definitions of resilience to state variable perturbations include measures of basin size (relevant to one-time perturbations) and of basin steepness (relevant to repeated perturbations). Resilience to parameter changes can be quantified by viewing parameters as state variables, but could also take into account reversibility. The dynamical systems viewpoint yields the following key insights: (i) system properties that confer resistance to state variable perturbations can differ from those that promote recovery from them, (ii) recovery rates, oft deemed the purview of "engineering resilience," do matter for ecological resilience, and (iii) resilience to repeated state variable perturbations correlates with resilience to parameter changes due to the critical slowing down phenomenon.
description: 5 figures
Enhanced balance associated with coordination training with stochastic resonance stimulation in subjects with functional ankle instability: an experimental trial
Creators: name: Blackburn, J. Troy
name: Guskiewicz, Kevin M.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2007

description: Abstract Background Ankle sprains are common injuries that often lead to functional ankle instability (FAI), which is a pathology defined by sensations of instability at the ankle and recurrent ankle sprain injury. Poor postural stability has been associated with FAI, and sports medicine clinicians rehabilitate balance deficits to prevent ankle sprains. Subsensory electrical noise known as stochastic resonance (SR) stimulation has been used in conjunction with coordination training to improve dynamic postural instabilities associated with FAI. However, unlike static postural deficits, dynamic impairments have not been indicative of ankle sprain injury. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to examine the effects of coordination training with or without SR stimulation on static postural stability. Improving postural instabilities associated with FAI has implications for increasing ankle joint stability and decreasing recurrent ankle sprains. Methods This study was conducted in a research laboratory. Thirty subjects with FAI were randomly assigned to either a: 1) conventional coordination training group (CCT); 2) SR stimulation coordination training group (SCT); or 3) control group. Training groups performed coordination exercises for six weeks. The SCT group received SR stimulation during training, while the CCT group only performed coordination training. Single leg postural stability was measured after the completion of balance training. Static postural stability was quantified on a force plate using anterior/posterior (A/P) and medial/lateral (M/L) center-of-pressure velocity (COPvel), M/L COP standard deviation (COPsd), M/L COP maximum excursion (COPmax), and COP area (COParea). Results Treatment effects comparing posttest to pretest COP measures were highest for the SCT group. At posttest, the SCT group had reduced A/P COPvel (2.3 ± 0.4 cm/s vs. 2.7 ± 0.6 cm/s), M/L COPvel (2.6 ± 0.5 cm/s vs. 2.9 ± 0.5 cm/s), M/L COPsd (0.63 ± 0.12 cm vs. 0.73 ± 0.11 cm), M/L COPmax (1.76 ± 0.25 cm vs. 1.98 ± 0.25 cm), and COParea (0.13 ± 0.03 cm2 vs. 0.16 ± 0.04 cm2) than the pooled means of the CCT and control groups (P < 0.05). Conclusion Reduced values in COP measures indicated postural stability improvements. Thus, six weeks of coordination training with SR stimulation enhanced postural stability. Future research should examine the use of SR stimulation for decreasing recurrent ankle sprain injury in physically active individuals with FAI.
Coboson many-body formalism for cold atom dimers with attraction between different fermion species only
Creators: name: Combescot, Monique
name: Shiau, Shiue-Yuan
name: Chang, Yia-Chung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Unlike the Coulomb potential that acts between all semiconductor carriers, the potential commonly used for BCS superconductors and cold atom gases acts between different fermion species only, these species differing by their spin or hyperfine index. The coboson formalism we here develop evidences that such composite bosons interact through fermion exchange only, thus rendering the structure of the Shiva diagrams that visualize their many-body effects far simpler. A separable potential is used to obtain analytical results for the $N$-coboson normalization factor and the $N$-coboson ground-state energy within the Born approximation, in terms of the Born dimer-dimer scattering length. This formalism opens the route toward approaching complex many-body effects, such as Bose-Einstein condensation, through a new perspective.
description: 11 pages, 11 figures
title: Predictors of short-term local recurrence after balloon-occluded transcatheter arterial chemoembolization using miriplatin for hepatocellular carcinoma
Creators: name: Asayama, Yoshiki
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Abdomen
subject: Liver
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: CT
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Balloon occlusion
subject: Chemoembolisation
subject: Cancer
subject: Haemodynamics / Flow dynamics

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Transcatheter arterial chemoembolization (TACE) is a widely accepted and effective therapy for unresectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) ( 1 ). Various anticancer drugs can be used for TACE, including doxorubicin, epirubicin, cisplatin and...
Legitimating Visions, Mitigating Risks
Creators: name: Chiles, Robert
name: Lougheed, Scott
Publisher: name: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food
Year: 2022

description: The tension between industrial and agrarian systems is well traveled territory in both environmental and rural sociology, but the needs, interests, and experiences of animals as meaningful subjects in the context of these systems has received far less attention. In this paper, we accordingly analyze how public understandings of risk and legitimacy are actively negotiated by industrial and agrarian meat producers in the aftermath of animal welfare controversies. More specifically, we examine how animal welfare is enacted through these two paradigms, respectively, by analyzing Temple Grandin’s industrial slaughter reforms and on-farm (agrarian) slaughter. We argue that all concerned meat producers must make difficult decisions about which animal welfare risks they wish emphasize or de-emphasize, and that neither system can eliminate these risks entirely.
description: The International Journal of Sociology of Agriculture and Food, Vol. 28 No. 2 (2022): Regular Issue
title: Proposal of Dose optimization method in digital radiography based on the noise characteristics for Chest X-ray Image
Creators: name: Mochizuki, Yasuo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Image verification
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Radiation effects
subject: Digital radiography
subject: Thorax

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: With the remarkable digitization of X-ray imaging systems, the screen-film (S/F) system as an image-forming device for general imaging has been replaced by digital radiography (DR) system, such as computed radiography (CR) and flat-panel detector...
THE INFLUENCE OF LARVAL DENSITY ON LARVAL GROWTH, AND THE CONSEQUENCES FOR ADULT SURVIVAL AND REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS IN THE DAMSELFLY CALOPTERYX VIRGO (ODONATA)
Creators: name: LAMBERT, CLAIRE LOUISE
Publisher: name: University of Plymouth
Year: 1994

description: This study of a population of C.virgo at Burrator, Dartmoor looks for signs of a population regulation mechanism acting through the effects of larval density on larval growth. The consequences of adult body size and emergence time for survival and reproductive success are also examined to look for further regulation mechanisms, and opportunities for natural and sexual selection; in particular the importance of body size to territorial males. Although there were significant differences in patterns of growth and body size within and between year classes of larvae, the differences were were not related to density. Smaller, later developing larvae were present, and the possibility that this was related to late hatching is discussed. Smaller, later developing larvae emerged later as smaller sized adults. Survival to maturity was not influenced by body size. Density-triggered bird predation was a regular feature of the population, and could result in early emergers experiencing higher survival to maturity. The advantage of early emergence could, however, easily be countered by adverse weather patterns. A field experiment showed that ovipositing females were highly aggregated, and that mature males were able to predict and profit from the aggregated distribution of females. Consequently male daily reproductive success was very variable, and was by far the most important component of their lifetime reproductive success. A large body size was an advantage to mature males when levels of competition were high, but not when competition was reduced as a result of bird predation and poor weather. Mature females produced between 85 and 1,615 eggs in their lifetime. The number of sunny days females survived to see was the most important component of their lifetime reproductive success, and was influenced by random predation and weather patterns. Body size was not related to either survival or clutch size. Early emerging females had higher lifetime reproductive success, but only as a result of the timing of the density-triggered bird predation, and this advantage could easily be lost through random weather patterns. The lack of evidence for density dependent feeding competition in larvae, and for a relationship between female body size and fecundity in adults, suggests that feeding competition is not a regulatory mechanism in this population. The difficulties of detecting density dependence in short term studies is discussed. The strong influence of environmental variables on the importance of adult body size and emergence time indicates that the opportunity for selection of these characteristics would be variable and hence weak in the short term. Over the long term, however, there would be a persistent selective pressure, and the possible consequences for larval growth are discussed.
Tuning and Stabilizing Topological Insulator Bi2Se3 in the Intrinsic Regime by Charge Extraction with Organic Overlayers
Creators: name: Wu, Liang
name: Ireland, R. M.
name: Salehi, M.
name: Cheng, B.
name: Koirala, N.
name: Oh, S.
name: Katz, H. E.
name: Armitage, N. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this work, we use charge extraction via organic overlayer deposition to lower the chemical potential of topological insulator Bi2Se3 thin films into the intrinsic (bulk-insulating) regime. We demonstrate the tuning and stabilization of intrinsic topological insulators at high mobility with low-cost organic films. With the protection of the organic charge extraction layers tetrafluorotetracyanoquinodimethane(F4TCNQ) or tris(acetylacetonato)cobalt(III) (Co(acac)3), the sample is stable in the atmosphere with chemical potential ~135 meV above the Dirac point (85 meV below the conduction band minimum, well within the topological insulator regime) after four months, which is an extraordinary level of environmental stability. The Co complex represents the first use of an organometallic for modulating TI charge density. The mobility of surface state electrons is enhanced as high as ~2000 cm2/Vs. Even at room temperature, a true topologically insulating state is realized and stabilized for months' exposure to the atmosphere.
description: Applied Physics Letters, To appear, 4 figures