cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Incorporating Complementary Alternative Methods in the Management of Chronic Pain into a Primary Care Practice in New York
Creators: name: Sher, Vladimir
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

Background: Pain is a physical, emotional, and psychological symptom that causes discomfort and leads to physiological consequences that can damage tissue, alter neurological pathways, and cause severe psychological distress. The combined use of complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies can reduce pain and lead to an improvement in patient health.  Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project/evidence-based practice intervention was to review concepts related to pain and analyze the current use of music and massage CAM therapies in a primary care setting.
Methods: The Gate Control Theory was used in this project describing pain as "a category of experiences signifying a multitude of different and unique experiences, having different causes, and characterized by different qualities varying along a number of sensory and affective dimensions.” Patients in an outpatient New York City clinic were asked to assess their pain levels after the use of CAM therapies. Patients received music and/or massage therapy two times a week, every two weeks for 12 weeks and pain was categorized using self-assessment tools. Patients were instructed to complete a pre- and post-procedure evaluation at two weeks intervals throughout the 12-week evaluation to document their pain levels.
Results: The results show that patients using music and/or massage therapy in combination with medications for pain management had reduced pain.
Conclusions: Based on the final 12 weeks pre/post assessment, all 14 participants reported better sleeping patterns, moods, and reduced pain after the two therapies. Further, music therapy participants showed a relatively better mood outcome over massage participants because they could choose positive music.
Keywords: pain, complementary and alternative medicine, hypnosis, massage, music
Supplementary file 3: Table S2
Creators: name: Nesterenko, Maksim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Parasitology

description: Supplementary file 3: Table S2 – The differential gene expression analysis results
Sobre Exilos Y Derrotas
Creators: name: Calderara Bravo, M. E.
Publisher: name: Living Refugee Archive, University of East London
Year: 2023

description: Poema de María Eugenia Bravo Calderara en su libro ‘Oración en el Estadio Nacional’, exhibido en la exposición 'Resistencia, Derechos y Refugio' en el LSE y donado por María Eugenia al proyecto ‘Documentando Chile’ del Archivo Viviendo como Refugiados, UEL —— Tanya Harmer y Gloria Miqueles
TRAIL 2.6: Solving vagueness modelling issues in numismatics and ceramology
Creators: name: Thiery, Florian
name: Mees, Allard
name: Börner, Susanne
name: Eide, Øyvind
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: NFDI
NFDI4Objects

description: Research data contain fuzzy and uncertain interpretive statements about objects, which must be recorded and provided FAIRly. Based on the solutions developed in TRAIL 2.2 – which extends existing modelling approaches and transformation rules be-tween modelling concepts – this TRAIL focuses on a FAIRification tool to handle vague-ness. The TRAIL addresses the enrich & interpret and reuse & cite aspects of the re-search data lifecycle. In this context, the challenge is to create a web-based data en-richment tool that can be used to create machine-readable qualified references and supports relevant attributes related to modelling vagueness. The implementation of semantic modelling concepts of vague object statements are tested in two cases: Ro-man coins with depictions of ships and graffiti on Roman gold coins and vessels. In ad-dition, the browser-based Academic Meta Tool (AMT), which already supports the cre-ation of networks of weighted properties, will be further developed into a dynamic web service (API). This TRAIL will implement an API for AMT. Adaptations to the AMT meta-ontology for describing vague semantic statements, which forms the logical basis for AMT, will be published as a blue paper, and the test data on using the tool in practice will be summarised in an evaluation report.
Nonlinear $σ$-models in the Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld Gravity
Creators: name: Nascimento, J. R.
name: Olmo, Gonzalo J.
name: Porfírio, P. J.
name: Petrov, A. Yu.
name: Soares, A. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we consider two different nonlinear $σ$-models minimally coupled to Eddington-inspired Born-Infeld gravity. We show that the resultant geometries represent minimal modifications with respect to those found in GR, though with important physical consequences. In particular, wormhole structures always arise, though this does not guarantee by itself the geodesic completeness of those space-times. In one of the models, quadratic in the canonical kinetic term, we identify a subset of solutions which are regular everywhere and are geodesically complete. We discuss characteristic features of these solutions and their dependence on the relationship between mass and global charge.
description: 19 pages, 5 figures
Design and challenges for the HARMONI Laser Guide Star Sensors
Creators: name: Costille, Anne
name: Renault, Edgard
name: Bonnefoi, Anne
name: Ceria, William
name: Dohlen, Kjetil
name: Hubert, Zoltan
name: Correia, Jean-Jacques
name: Moulin, Thibaut
name: Rabou, Patrick
name: Menendez, Saul
name: Neichel, Benoit
name: Fusco, Thierry
name: El Hadi, Kacem
name: Curaba, Stephane
name: Clarke, Fraser
name: Melotte, Dave
name: Thatte, Niranjan
Publisher: name: Proceedings of AO4ELT7 conference 2023 - Editors: Thierry Fusco and Benoit Neichel
Year: 2023
Subjects: ELT HARMONI
ADAPTIVE OPTICS
OPTO
MECHANICS
LTAO
LASER GUIDE STAR
WAVEFRONT SENSORS

description: HARMONI is the first light visible and near-IR integral field spectrograph for the ELT. It covers a large spectral range from 450nm to 2450nm with resolving powers from 3500 to 18000 and spatial sampling from 60mas to 4mas. It can operate in two Adaptive Optics modes - SCAO (including a High Contrast capability) and LTAO - or with NOAO. The project is preparing for Final Design Reviews. The laser Tomographic AO (LTAO) system provides AO correction with very high sky-coverage and it is supported by two systems: the Laser Guide Star Sensors (LGSS) and the Natural Guide Star Sensors (NGSS). The LGSS analyse the wavefront coming from 6 laser guide stars (LGS) created by the ELT; light that is picked up at the at the very entrance of the instrument with a dichroic mirror. LTAO is complemented with NGSS that probe the wavefront on natural guide star for tip, tilt, focus determination. The LGSS is made of 6 independent wavefront sensor (WFS) modules mounted on a rotator of 1100 mm diameter to stabilise the pupil onto the microlens array in front of the detector with an accuracy of 90\'\'. Each LGS WFS is designed to compensate variations of the LGS mean layer centroid from 75 km to 92 km altitude at zenith angles from 0 to 60 with a dedicated mechanism in each module. We present the optical and mechanical design of the LGSS proposed for FDR. The optical design is based on the use of freeform lenses to minimize the numbers of optical components, to accommodate for the diversity of sodium layer configurations and to ensure a small amount of aberrations in each LGS path. The WFS itself is based on a CMOS detector from SONY: it provides a large number of pixels to accept elongated spots up to 16 arcsec without truncation and to sample the pupil with 68 sub-apertures with a pixel size of 1.15\'\'. The trade-off of the mechanical design is also presented to illustrate how materials (carbon benches) have been carefully selected to ensure resistance to earthquake with a reduced mass to obtain a complete system smaller than 3 tons and with a first mode larger than 12Hz. The current challenge of the design relies on the choice of the microlens array technology to minimize the transmission loss.
Theta Vectors and Quantum Theta Functions
Creators: name: Chang-Young, Ee
name: Kim, Hoil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we clarify the relation between Manin's quantum theta function and Schwarz's theta vector in comparison with the kq representation, which is equivalent to the classical theta function, and the corresponding coordinate space wavefunction. We first explain the equivalence relation between the classical theta function and the kq representation in which the translation operators of the phase space are commuting. When the translation operators of the phase space are not commuting, then the kq representation is no more meaningful. We explain why Manin's quantum theta function obtained via algebra (quantum tori) valued inner product of the theta vector is a natural choice for quantum version of the classical theta function (kq representation). We then show that this approach holds for a more general theta vector with constant obtained from a holomorphic connection of constant curvature than the simple Gaussian one used in the Manin's construction. We further discuss the properties of the theta vector and of the quantum theta function, both of which have similar symmetry properties under translation.
description: LaTeX 21 pages, give more explicit explanations for notions given in the text
Untitled ItemInvolving caregivers in behavioural research: A SWOT analysis of two citizen science research methodologies to study cat-cat interactions at home
Creators: name: Mills, Daniel
name: R. Van Belle, Morgane
name: Kmecova, Noema
name: Tuyttens, Frank A.M.
name: De Keuster, Tiny
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 300999
subject: Veterinary sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Citizen science, which involves engaging the general public in research tasks, is increasingly used in animal behaviour studies. In this review we conducted a SWOT analysis (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) to evaluate two methodologies of data collection using citizen science in order to study cat-cat interactions: online survey responses and caregiver-recorded home videos analysed by researcher(s). Using the SWOT-analysis on both methodologies, we listed intrinsic aspects that facilitate (Strengths) or interfere with (Weaknesses) reaching scientific goals, as well as the features that the methodology may be able to capitalise on (Opportunities) or which limit its value (Threats). A major strength of online surveys is the possibility to access caregivers’ specific knowledge of their cats, while sampling bias often is a potential weakness. Opportunities of surveys are the methodology´s flexibility and data collection efficiency, but at the same time suffering from threats related to biases associated with caregiver interpretation of their pet’s behaviour. Strengths of caregiver-recorded videos capturing cats’ behaviour include that they allow expert behavioural observations and scoring in a systematic manner (e.g. using an ethogram) and thus yielding quantitative data (whose reliability can be tested between and within observers). Furthermore, given the ubiquity of smartphones, filming cats is not a burden for most caregivers, and the collected recordings can potentially contain high-quality data that may otherwise be inaccessible, or subject to bias if a researcher had been present in the home environment. Though, caregivers’ influence on and lack of standardisation of the recordings are weaknesses which possibly influence the quality of the collected data. Opportunities include public engagement with science, while possible Threats may be related to privacy of the caregivers participating. In this review we consider in more detail each of the four SWOT components related to each methodology in order to optimise cat behaviour research in the future. The authors suggest strategies for future studies using the research methodologies discussed in this review and give specific recommendations when using caregiver-recorded videos in behavioural studies. Additionally, smart combinations of both online surveys with home videos recorded by caregivers might overcome some limitations of the individual methodologies, and would thus be a potentially stronger approach.
Eusapia guyanensis Huedepohl 1988
Creators: name: Taboada-Verona, Carlos
name: Mattei, Renato
name: Mattei, Roberto
name: Julio, Carlos Aguilar
name: Lanuza-Garay, Alfredo
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Eusapia
Eusapia guyanensis

description: 2. Eusapia guyanensis Hüdepohl, 1988 (Figura 2).
 Material Examinado. VENEZUELA: Amazonas: Municipio Autónomo Atures, Pintao. Colecta manual. 1 ejemplar. 05/I/2016. Hermanos Mattei col.
 Distribución. Brasil, Colombia, Guayana Francesa (Monné 2016a).
description: Published as part of Taboada-Verona, Carlos, Mattei, Renato, Mattei, Roberto, Julio, Carlos Aguilar & Lanuza-Garay, Alfredo, 2016, Nuevos registros de escarabajos longicornios (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) para Venezuela, pp. 1-9 in Insecta Mundi 2016 (493) on page 3, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5170643
NICER observes a secondary peak in the decay of a thermonuclear burst from 4U 1608-52
Creators: name: Jaisawal, Gaurava K.
name: Chenevez, Jérôme
name: Bult, Peter
name: Zand, J. J. M. in 't
name: Galloway, Duncan K.
name: Strohmayer, Tod E.
name: Güver, Tolga
name: Adkins, Phillip
name: Altamirano, Diego
name: Arzoumanian, Zaven
name: Chakrabarty, Deepto
name: Coopersmith, Jonathan
name: Gendreau, Keith C.
name: Guillot, Sebastien
name: Keek, Laurens
name: Ludlam, Renee M.
name: Malacaria, Christian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report for the first time below 1.5 keV, the detection of a secondary peak in an Eddington-limited thermonuclear X-ray burst observed by the Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer (NICER) from the low-mass X-ray binary 4U 1608-52. Our time-resolved spectroscopy of the burst is consistent with a model consisting of a varying-temperature blackbody, and an evolving persistent flux contribution, likely attributed to the accretion process. The dip in the burst intensity before the secondary peak is also visible in the bolometric flux. Prior to the dip, the blackbody temperature reached a maximum of $\approx3$ keV. Our analysis suggests that the dip and secondary peak are not related to photospheric expansion, varying circumstellar absorption, or scattering. Instead, we discuss the observation in the context of hydrodynamical instabilities, thermonuclear flame spreading models, and re-burning in the cooling tail of the burst.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in ApJ
Strategic Trade Policies in the U.S. Orange Juice Market: Competition between Florida and São Paulo
Creators: name: Luckstead, Jeff
name: Devadoss, Stephen
name: Mittelhammer, Ron C.
name: Luckstead, Jeff
name: Devadoss, Stephen
name: Mittelhammer, Ron C.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Agricultural and Food Policy
subject: Industrial Organization
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: strategic trade policy
subject: NEIO
subject: market power
subject: FCOJ

description: The U.S. frozen concentrated orange juice (FCOJ) market is dominated by a small number of processors in Florida and São Paulo (Brazil), while the European FCOJ market is dominated by São Paulo FCOJ processors. Both the U.S. and European governments impose a tariff on FCOJ imports. We develop a strategic trade model to analyze the oligopolistic competition between Florida and São Paulo processors in the U.S. FCOJ market and São Paulo processors in the European FCOJ market. We analyze the effect of a change in the U.S. and European tariff on FCOJ sales and welfare. The analytical results show that a reduction in the U.S. tariff increases São Paulo's exports to the United States while decreasing their exports to Europe, which causes a decrease in Florida's sales in the United States. The results of a reduction in the European tariff indicate that São Paulo diverts its exports from the United Sates to Europe, which augments Florida's sales in the United States. Based on the strategic trade model, the structural empirical model is derived and the New Empirical Industrial Organization literature is implemented to estimate the econometric model and compute the market power of Florida and São Paulo producers. The Lerner Index calculation suggests that both Florida and São Paulo processors exert market power, but São Paulo have a higher markup over their marginal costs because of lower input costs. The parameterized model is used to simulate a 25% reduction in both the U.S. and European tariffs. A 25% reduction in the U.S. tariff results in an 8% decrease in Florida's market share and a 27% increase in São Paulo's market share in the U.S. FCOJ market. While a 25% reduction in the European tariff causes Florida's U.S. market share to increase by 2% and São Paulo's U.S. market share to reduce by 6%. The simulation results are consistent with the analytical results.
Dynamical excitonic effects in metals and semiconductors
Creators: name: Marini, Andrea
name: Del Sole, Rodolfo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of an electron--hole pair induced by the time--dependent screened Coulomb interaction is discussed. In contrast to the case where the static electron--hole interaction is considered we demonstrate the occurrence of important dynamical excitonic effects in the solution of the Bethe--Salpeter equation.This is illustrated in the calculated absorption spectra of noble metals (copper and silver) and silicon. Dynamical corrections strongly affect the spectra, partially canceling dynamical self--energy effects and leading to good agreement with experiment.
description: Accepted for publication on Phys. Rev. Lett
Implementing a Yoga-Based Stress Reduction Quality Improvement Project for Hypertensive Patients in Primary Care
Creators: name: Faro, Angela S.
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

Abstract
Background: Uncontrolled hypertension remains an ongoing costly and fatal issue in healthcare. Stress as a risk factor for hypertension is modifiable, but stress screening and counseling is underutilized in primary care. Stress management strategies have proven beneficial, with yoga showing the highest impact on both stress and blood pressure reduction.
Methods: The purpose of this quality improvement (QI) project was to assist in the recognition of stress as a modifiable risk factor in hypertensive adults using a stress screening and yoga-based intervention to improve quality care and health outcomes at a primary care facility. An optional stress reduction program was offered by this DNP student, where education on hypertension and stress reduction was provided, blood pressure, stress level, and medication adherence were assessed, a link to cost-free yoga exercises was provided, and weekly follow-ups were performed.
Results: Ten out of ten female patients were willing and eligible to enroll in the project. Engagement rate of participants in the yoga program was 70% (7) after education was provided. Seventy percent (7) of patients gained knowledge on hypertension and stress health through completed screening. Sixty percent (6) of patients reported they would continue using yoga in the future.
Conclusion: The project was determined to be feasible and effective; BP, stress level, and medication compliance all remained the same or improved. The results of this QI pilot project support the feasibility and effectiveness of a stress screening and yoga-based intervention for hypertensive patients to assist in stress and blood pressure management in primary care.
Keywords: Hypertension, stress, intervention, yoga, adherence
Current-Induced Helicity Reversal of a Single Skyrmionic Bubble Chain in a Nanostructured Frustrated Magnet
Creators: name: Hou, Zhipeng
name: Zhang, Qiang
name: Zhang, Xichao
name: Xu, Guizhou
name: Xia, Jing
name: Ding, Bei
name: Li, Hang
name: Zhang, Senfu
name: Batra, Nitin M
name: Costa, Pedro M. F. J.
name: Liu, Enke
name: Wu, Guangheng
name: Ezawa, Motohiko
name: Liu, Xiaoxi
name: Zhou, Yan
name: Zhang, Xixiang
name: Wang, Wenhong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Helicity indicates the in-plane magnetic-moment swirling direction of a skyrmionic configuration. The ability to reverse the helicity of a skyrmionic bubble via purely electrical means has been predicted in frustrated magnetic systems, however its experimental observation has remained challenging. Here, we experimentally demonstrate the current-driven helicity reversal of the skyrmionic bubble in a nanostructured frustrated Fe3Sn2 magnet. The critical current density required to trigger the helicity reversal is 109 - 1010 A/m2, with a corresponding pulse-width varying from 1 μs to 100 ns. Computational simulations reveal that both the pinning effect and dipole-dipole interaction play a crucial role in the helicity-reversal process.
description: Accepted by Advanced Materials
MOESM2 of Measuring fidelity of delivery of the Community Occupational Therapy in Dementia-UK intervention
Creators: name: Walton, Holly
name: Tombor, Ildiko
name: Burgess, Jane
name: Groarke, Hilary
name: Swinson, Tom
name: Wenborn, Jennifer
name: Spector, Aimee
name: Orrell, Martin
name: Mountain, Gail
name: Michie, Susan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 2. Final coding guidelines
Improving Mental Healthcare for Older Adults: Community Based Screening for Social and Emotional Loneliness and Major Depressive Disorder
Creators: name: Kowalczyk, Eunice
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

Abstract
Purpose: Major depressive disorder (MDD) is a devastating mental health disorder affecting older adults that is often misdiagnosed or untreated due to a lack of screening and the stigma that MDD symptoms are a normal and expected part of aging. The goal of this quality improvement (QI) project was to implement a community-based screening intervention to identify community-dwelling older adults at risk for or suffering from MDD, and facilitate further evaluation and care.
Methods: Participants were community dwelling older adults, age 56 and older, in Massachusetts. Two screening tools were administered in two sites that screened for social and emotional loneliness and MDD, and follow-up was measured two weeks post initial interview. Quantitative methods including a Pearson-Chi-Squared test of independence and a One-Way ANOVA analysis were subsequently performed to analyze the data.
Results: Of the 53 participants, 4% scored positive for MDD, 22% scored positive for MDD and social and emotional loneliness, 28% scored positive for only social and emotional loneliness. A significant association was shown between MDD and social and emotional loneliness (Chi-Squared = 3.847, p=0.050). 86% of participants that scored positive for MDD and 59% of participants that scored positive for social and emotional loneliness pursued further evaluation and social activities.
Conclusion: Implementation of early screening for MDD in older adults by psychiatric metal health nurse practitioners (PMHNP) through home visits can be effective at identifying MDD and its precursors, and facilitating further evaluation and interventions.
Keywords: older adults, advanced practice nursing, community-dwelling, depression, loneliness, screening tools.
BALANCING ACT: ECONOMIC INCENTIVES, ADMINISTRATIVE RESTRICTIONS, AND URBAN LAND EXPANSION IN CHINA
Creators: name: Feng, Juan
name: Lichtenberg, Erik
name: Ding, Chengri
name: Feng, Juan
name: Lichtenberg, Erik
name: Ding, Chengri
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: International Development
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Public Economics
subject: China
subject: urbanization
subject: land development
subject: farmland conversion
subject: land use
subject: decentralization
subject: fiscal federalism

description: We examine how the system of “federalism, Chinese style” functions in the context of land allocation. China’s land laws give provision of land a central role in local officials’ growth promotion strategies. Requisitions of farmland by local authorities have engendered significant rural unrest. In response, the central government has attempted to re-establish control over the pace of urban land expansion by enacting regulations limiting conversion of rural land to urban uses. We derive theoretically the conditions under which non-compliance with such regulations is optimal. An econometric investigation shows that legal restrictions on farmland conversion had no effect on rates of farmland loss but did limit urban spatial growth rates in some regions. Our econometric evidence suggests very limited enforcement of those legal limits on farmland conversion.
Improving Metered Dose Inhaler (MDI) Technique Outcomes for Pediatric Patients in Primary Care Through Comprehensive Delivery Method Education
Creators: name: Morin, Ryan e
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2012

Metered Dose Inhalers (MDIs) are a commonly prescribed delivery method for prescription medications in primary care that have been demonstrated to have poor rates of proper technique by patients resulting in less effective inhalation outcomes. Education that is comprehensive, consistent, and includes written and oral instruction and demonstration by the provider with return demonstration by the patient in addition has been found to have the highest rates of improvement in technique mastery and inhalation outcomes.  Through the initiation of consistent, comprehensive education, this project demonstrated an increase in proper MDI technique checklist scores pre and post education in children at a primary practice pediatric outpatient facility that self-identified as lacking in consistent MDI technique assessment and education. The expected outcome of this project was to increase the amount of metered dose inhaler technique checklist steps performed properly 50% in the post-education demonstration compared to the patient’s pre-education demonstration, while encouraging healthcare provider’s involvement and ensuring patient comfort.  Efficacy of education in increasing proper technique was measured through the comparison of pre and post-education demonstration of technique with the healthcare provider recording the proper steps that are completed at each demonstration.
Conveyor belt clock synchronization
Creators: name: Giovannetti, Vittorio
name: Lloyd, Seth
name: Maccone, Lorenzo
name: Shapiro, Jeffrey H.
name: Wong, Franco N. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A protocol for synchronizing distant clocks is proposed that does not rely on the arrival times of the signals which are exchanged, and an optical implementation based on coherent-state pulses is described. This protocol is not limited by any dispersion that may be present in the propagation medium through which the light signals are exchanged. Possible improvements deriving from the use of quantum-mechanical effects are also addressed.
description: 8 pages, 7 figures
Current constraints from cosmogenic neutrinos on the fraction of protons in UHECRs
Creators: name: van Vliet, Arjen
name: Batista, Rafael Alves
name: Hörandel, Jörg R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmogenic neutrinos are created when ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) interact with extragalactic photon backgrounds. In general, the expected flux of these cosmogenic neutrinos depends on multiple parameters, describing the sources and propagation of UHECRs. In our recent paper (van Vliet et al. 2019), we show that a `sweet spot` occurs at a neutrino energy of $E_ν \sim 1$ EeV. At that energy the flux mainly depends on two parameters, the source evolution and the fraction of protons in UHECRs at Earth for $E_p \gtrsim 30$ EeV. Therefore, with current upper limits on the cosmogenic neutrino flux at $E_ν \sim 1$ EeV and assuming a certain source class, a constraint on the composition of UHECRs can be obtained. This constraint is independent of hadronic interaction models and indicates that the combination of a large proton fraction and a strong source evolution is disfavored. Upcoming neutrino experiments will be able to constrain the fraction of protons in UHECRs even further, and for any realistic model for the evolution of UHECR sources.
description: Presented at the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2019)
Using Smartphone Technology to Enhance Self-Management Support in Adults with Type 2 Diabetes in Primary Care
Creators: name: Ameck, Peter
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

Background: Self-care is a crucial component in the management of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (T2DM). The literature shows that frequent feedback on blood sugar recordings together with reminders can lead to improvements in patient’s glucose control and diabetic self-care. The Chronic Care Model developed by Wagner emphasizes the importance of patient participation in the management of their chronic diseases.
Purpose: To explore the possibility of using smartphone technology to help adults with T2DM better manage this chronic disease in a primary care clinic in New England.
 Methods: A smartphone application (App) OnTrack Diabetes (OnTrack) and text messaging were used to enhance communication between the patient and the provider. After receiving facility and IRB waivers, participants were recruited and trained on the downloaded App. Data was generated through text messages, the App and DNP student journaling, which was evaluated for patient and provider satisfaction with the App.
Results: This project lasted about five months with five out of the seven participants recruited actually completing the project. Many (60%) of the participants found the App useful, 80% followed through with the instructions in the text messages and 60% intend to continue to use the App. Three out of five providers liked the App and intend to continue to use it. Most (80%) of the participants noticed a decrease in blood sugar, hemoglobin A1C and weight.    
Conclusion: This project confirms that an App and text messaging may be a useful tool for primary care providers to enhance self management in patients with T2DM and that frequent communication with the patient in between face to face office visits keeps them engaged and more compliant with diabetes management.
Supplementary file 4: Table S3
Creators: name: Nesterenko, Maksim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Parasitology

description: Supplementary file 4: Table S3 – The co-expression clusters identification results
X-ray astronomy in the new Millenium. A Summary
Creators: name: Blandford, Roger
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent X-ray observations have had a major impact on topics ranging from protostars to cosmology. They have also drawn attention to important and general physical processes that currently limit our understanding of thermal and nonthermal X-ray sources. These include unmeasured atomic astrophysics data (wavelengths, oscillator strengths etc.), basic hydromagnetic processes (e.g. shock structure, reconnection), plasma processes (such as electron-ion equipartition and heat conduction) and radiative transfer (in disks and accretion columns). Progress on these problems will probably come from integrative studies that draw upon observations, throughout the electromagnetic spectrum, of different classes of source. X-ray observations are also giving a new perspective on astronomical subjects, like the nature of galactic nuclei and the evolution of stellar populations. They are contributing to answering central cosmological questions including the measurement of the matter content of the universe, understanding its overall luminosity density, describing its chemical evolution and locating the first luminous objects. X-ray astronomy has a healthy future with several international space missions under construction and in development.
description: 12 pages
Supplementary file 5: Table S4
Creators: name: Nesterenko, Maksim
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 60102 Bioinformatics
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Parasitology

description: Supplementary file 5: Table S4 – The gene set enrichment analysis results for representative parts of life cycle molecular signatures
Longitudinal validation of the PROFFIT questionnaire to assess financial toxicity in cancer patients
Creators: name: Arenare, Laura
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The data uploaded belong to a study focusing on financial toxicity (FT) in oncology, a growing concern even in countries with universal healthcare systems. The study utilized the PROFFIT questionnaire to assess FT among Italian cancer patients and understand its determinants. While prior research established its validity in a cross-sectional analysis, this study aimed to validate it further using longitudinal data.

This prospective study was conducted involving 221 cancer patients from 10 Italian centers spanning March 2021 to July 2022.
Electronic properties of air-exposed GaN$(1\bar{1}00)$ and $(0001)$ surfaces after several device processing compatible cleaning steps
Creators: name: Auzelle, Thomas
name: Ullrich, Florian
name: Hietzschold, Sebastian
name: Brackmann, Stefan
name: Hillebrandt, Sabina
name: Kowalsky, Wolfgang
name: Mankel, Eric
name: Lovrincic, Robert
name: Fernández-Garrido, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Applied Physics (physics.app-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the electronic properties of GaN$(1\bar{1}00)$ and $(0001)$ surfaces after three different and subsequent device processing compatible cleaning steps: HCl etching, annealing at $400$ $^\circ$C in N$_2$ atmosphere, and O$_2$ plasma exposure. The surface electronic properties are quantified, in the dark and under ultraviolet illumination, using X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy and a Kelvin probe. We find that the cleaning steps largely affect the work function and the band bending of both GaN orientations. These modifications are attributed to the presence of different surface states as well as to the formation of adsorbates building up distinct surface dipoles. Besides these results, we detect that under ultraviolet illumination the work function of the surfaces exposed to HCl decreases by at least $0.2$ eV without screening of the band bending. We thus attribute the observed surface photovoltage to a photo-induced modification of the surface dipole. Overall, these results emphasize the strong dependence of the electronic properties of air-exposed GaN surfaces on adsorbates. As a result, we advocate the use of the common cleaning steps analyzed here to re-initialize at will GaN$(1\bar{1}00)$ and $(0001)$ surfaces into pre-defined states.
description: This is the accepted manuscript version of an article that appeared in Applied Surface Science copyright (C) Elsevier. The CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license applies, see http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ . To access the final edited and published work, see https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apsusc.2019.07.256
Additional file of Comparative genomics of the bacterial genus Listeria: Genome evolution is characterized by limited gene acquisition and limited gene loss
Creators: name: Bakker, Henk C Den
name: Cummings, Craig A
name: Ferreira, Vania
name: Vatta, Paolo
name: Orsi, Renato H
name: Degoricija, Lovorka
name: Barker, Melissa
name: Petrauskene, Olga
name: Manohar R Furtado
name: Wiedmann, Martin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file of Comparative genomics of the bacterial genus Listeria: Genome evolution is characterized by limited gene acquisition and limited gene loss
Removal of Cadmium(II) by hydrated manganese dioxide: behaviour and mechanism at different pH
Creators: name: Wang, Yao
name: Xie, Wanzhen
name: Xie, Fencun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: Homogeneous precipitation was proposed to prepare hydrated manganese dioxide (HMO) with KMnO4 as oxidant, NaCl as reductant and HNO3 as reaction auxiliary. HMO was applied to remove Cd(II) and the effect of contact time, initial concentration, adsorbent dose and pH value on adsorption efficiency were investigated. The removal mechanisms at various pH values were analysed in detail. Adsorption thermodynamics parameters were calculated as ΔG < 0, ΔH > 0 and ΔS > 0, which meant that the adsorption process was endothermic. The result of adsorption kinetics indicated the adsorption process conformed to pseudo-second-order kinetics. When adsorbing Cd(II) with initial concentration equaling 100 mg·L−1, the activation energy (Ea) was 62.740 kJ·mol−1. The Langmuir model could describe adsorption behaviour on HMO better than the Freundlich model, indicating that the adsorption sites of HMO were homogeneous and that single-layer adsorption was a dominant way in this process. The maximum adsorption capacity of Cd(II) on MnO2 calculated by the Langmuir model was 267 mg·g−1. The adsorbent HMO could be recycled and reused for several times with a high efficiency above 70% by adding HCl. SEM, EDS, FTIR and XPS were used to analyse the mechanisms of removal of Cd(II) at pH = 3,7 and 10. The mechanisms included electrostatic attraction, ion exchange and chemical precipitation. With pH increasing, the zeta potential decreased and the surface negative charge increased, promoting Cd(II) removal through enhanced electrostatic attraction. Meanwhile, ion exchange mechanisms including inner-sphere complexation and outer-sphere complexation occurred during adsorption process at different pH.
Farm Support Payments and Risk Balancing: Implications for Financial Riskiness of Canadian Farms
Creators: name: Uzeaa, Florentina Nicoleta
name: Poon, Kenneth
name: Sparling, David
name: Weersink, Alfons
name: Uzeaa, Florentina Nicoleta
name: Poon, Kenneth
name: Sparling, David
name: Weersink, Alfons
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Demand and Price Analysis
subject: Farm Management
subject: Financial Economics
subject: International Relations/Trade
subject: Risk Balancing
subject: Business Risk
subject: Financial Risk
subject: Farm-Level Data
subject: Correlation Analysis
subject: Binary Dependent Panel Models

description: The risk balancing literature suggests that business risk management (BRM) programs may, through risk balancing (offsetting adjustments between business risk and financial risk), lead farmers to take on more financial risk than they would take otherwise, which, in turn, increases the risk of equity loss. Business risk management continues to be the central objective of Canadian agricultural policy, and this was re-enforced with the recent introduction of the Growing Forward II policy framework. However, it is not known whether Canadian BRM programs designed to offset business risk lead to increased financial risk and possibly higher levels of overall risk for individual farm operations. This paper aims to empirically examine the impact of Canadian BRM programs on the financial riskiness of farms using a longitudinal farm data set from Ontario. Results show that: 1) the lag of payment of Canadian Agricultural Income Stabilization/AgriStability diminishes the effectiveness of BRM programs in reducing business risk; 2) a relatively small share of farms exhibit risk balancing behaviour, and 3) BRM payments have no impact on the likelihood of risk balancing. Taken together, these findings suggest that the impact of BRM programs on the financial riskiness of farms is limited.
MOESM4 of Wolbachia infection in Argentinean populations of Anastrepha fraterculus sp1: preliminary evidence of sex ratio distortion by one of two strains
Creators: name: Conte, Claudia
name: Segura, Diego
name: Milla, Fabian
name: Augustinos, Antonios
name: Cladera, Jorge
name: Bourtzis, Kostas
name: Lanzavecchia, Silvia
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 4. Molecular Phylogenetic analysis based on concatenated MLST data (2079 bases) by Maximum Likelihood method (Mega5) following the parameters described by Baldo et al. [15].
General Partial Label Learning via Dual Bipartite Graph Autoencoder
Creators: name: Chen, Brian
name: Wu, Bo
name: Zareian, Alireza
name: Zhang, Hanwang
name: Chang, Shih-Fu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We formulate a practical yet challenging problem: General Partial Label Learning (GPLL). Compared to the traditional Partial Label Learning (PLL) problem, GPLL relaxes the supervision assumption from instance-level -- a label set partially labels an instance -- to group-level: 1) a label set partially labels a group of instances, where the within-group instance-label link annotations are missing, and 2) cross-group links are allowed -- instances in a group may be partially linked to the label set from another group. Such ambiguous group-level supervision is more practical in real-world scenarios as additional annotation on the instance-level is no longer required, e.g., face-naming in videos where the group consists of faces in a frame, labeled by a name set in the corresponding caption. In this paper, we propose a novel graph convolutional network (GCN) called Dual Bipartite Graph Autoencoder (DB-GAE) to tackle the label ambiguity challenge of GPLL. First, we exploit the cross-group correlations to represent the instance groups as dual bipartite graphs: within-group and cross-group, which reciprocally complements each other to resolve the linking ambiguities. Second, we design a GCN autoencoder to encode and decode them, where the decodings are considered as the refined results. It is worth noting that DB-GAE is self-supervised and transductive, as it only uses the group-level supervision without a separate offline training stage. Extensive experiments on two real-world datasets demonstrate that DB-GAE significantly outperforms the best baseline over absolute 0.159 F1-score and 24.8% accuracy. We further offer analysis on various levels of label ambiguities.
description: 8 pages
Timely Transitioning to Hospice: A Needs Assessment with a PACE Program to Improve End of Life Care
Creators: name: Kelley, Kristina
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2019

Background: Hospice care has been proven to improve patient outcomes at the end of life. However, patients frequently die without receiving hospice benefits. The challenge of transitioning patients from care with a life prolonging intent to a comfort focused approach can partly be attributed to poor prognostication or misconceptions about hospice.  A Program for All Inclusive Care of Elders (PACE) in Massachusetts identified transitioning to hospice as an area for improvement. Purpose: To perform a needs assessment to gain understanding of the barriers to effective transitions to hospice and to provide education aimed at addressing those barriers. Methods: Subjects included nurses, nutritionists, physical and occupational therapists. These healthcare providers were surveyed to assess facilitators and barriers to hospice transitions. An educational presentation and focus group based on the results was conducted and evaluated using post-surveys. Results: Eleven individuals participated in the needs assessment survey. Lack of communication surrounding end of life care transitions was the most frequently identified barrier to care. The educational intervention focused on communication strategies and the post-survey evaluated participant satisfaction on the topic. Six participants were present for the presentation, 5 completed the post-survey following the intervention and 2 completed the 2-month follow-up. Due to the low response rate for the 2-month follow up it was not clear that there was a change in satisfaction among participants. Conclusion: A needs assessment is valuable in understanding why patients are not receiving adequate hospice services at the end of life.  These results can effectively direct interventions that aim to improve care transitions.
Excitons in Phosphorene: A Semi-Analytical Perturbative Approach
Creators: name: Henriques, J. C. G.
name: Peres, N. M. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper we develop a semi-analytical perturbation-theory approach to the calculation of the energy levels (binding energies) and wave functions of excitons in phosphorene. Our method gives both the exciton wave function in real and reciprocal spaces with the same ease. This latter aspect is important for the calculation of the nonlinear optical properties of phosphorene. We find that our results are in agreement with calculations based both on the Bethe-Salpeter equation and on Monte Carlo simulations, which are computationally much more demanding. Our approach thus introduces a simple, viable, and accurate method to address the problem of excitons in anisotropic two-dimensional materials.
description: 8 pages
Costs of Local Air Quality Regulation on Dairies in the San Joaquin Valley
Creators: name: Zhang, Wei
name: Zhang, Wei
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2013
Subjects: Environmental Economics and Policy
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: This research estimates the costs of a local air quality rule (Rule 4570) adopted in the San Joaquin Valley in 2006 to reduce Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs) emissions from dairies. Using a panel of farm-level cost data from dairies throughout California, I estimated the effects of the regulation on feed, labor, and other operating costs.