cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Extra-familial social factors and obesity in the Hispanic Community Children’s Health Study/Study of Latino Youth
Creators: name: Bravin, J.I.
name: Delamater, A.M.
name: Talavera, G.A.
name: Pulgaron, E.R.
name: Gutierrez, A.P.
name: Van Horn, L.
name: Zeng, D.
name: Castañeda, S.F.
name: Roesch, S.C.
name: Daviglus, M.L.
name: Perreira, K.M.
name: Lopez-Class, M.
name: Isasi, C.R.
name: Gallo, L.C.
name: McCurley, J.L.
Publisher: name: Springer New York LLC
Year: 2019

description: Hispanic/Latino youth are disproportionately affected by obesity. However, how social factors outside of the family relate to Hispanic/Latino youth obesity is not well understood. We examined associations of extra-familial social factors with overweight/obesity prevalence, and their variation by sex and age, in 1444 Study of Latino Youth participants [48.6% female; 43.4% children (8–11 years); 56.6% adolescents (12–16 years)], who were offspring of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos participants. Youth self-reported general social support from friends, dietary-, and physical activity (PA)-specific support from peers, and awareness/internalization of thinness ideals. Overweight/obesity was defined as body mass index ≥ 85th percentile. Logistic regression models assessed effects of social factors and their interactions with age-group and sex, adjusting for potential confounders. Social support from friends interacted with both age and sex in relation to overweight/obesity. Female children who reported lesser (OR 0.60; 95% CI [0.39, 0.91]) and female adolescents who reported greater (OR 1.35; 95% CI [1.06, 1.74]) social support from friends had higher odds of overweight/obesity. Among males, greater awareness/internalization of thinness ideals related to higher odds of overweight/obesity (OR 2.30; 95% CI [1.59, 3.31]). Awareness/internalization of thinness ideals was not associated with overweight/obesity among females. Dietary and PA-specific peer support did not relate to overweight/obesity. Social support from friends and awareness/internalization of thinness ideals were significantly related to odds of overweight/obesity in Hispanic/Latino youth; associations varied by age and sex, and persisted after control for intra-familial factors (overall family support/function; diet and activity specific support).
Robust Score Tests With Missing Data in Genomics Studies
Creators: name: Lin, D.Y.
name: Wong, K.Y.
name: Zeng, D.
Publisher: name: American Statistical Association
Year: 2019

description: Analysis of genomic data is often complicated by the presence of missing values, which may arise due to cost or other reasons. The prevailing approach of single imputation is generally invalid if the imputation model is misspecified. In this article, we propose a robust score statistic based on imputed data for testing the association between a phenotype and a genomic variable with (partially) missing values. We fit a semiparametric regression model for the genomic variable against an arbitrary function of the linear predictor in the phenotype model and impute each missing value by its estimated posterior expectation. We show that the score statistic with such imputed values is asymptotically unbiased under general missing-data mechanisms, even when the imputation model is misspecified. We develop a spline-based method to estimate the semiparametric imputation model and derive the asymptotic distribution of the corresponding score statistic with a consistent variance estimator using sieve approximation theory and empirical process theory. The proposed test is computationally feasible regardless of the number of independent variables in the imputation model. We demonstrate the advantages of the proposed method over existing methods through extensive simulation studies and provide an application to a major cancer genomics study. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Iso-vector and Iso-scalar Tensor Charges of the Nucleon from Lattice QCD
Creators: name: Bhattacharya, Tanmoy
name: Cirigliano, Vincenzo
name: Cohen, Saul
name: Gupta, Rajan
name: Joseph, Anosh
name: Lin, Huey-Wen
name: Yoon, Boram
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results for the iso-vector and flavor diagonal tensor charges $g^{u-d}_T$, $g^{u}_T$, $g^{d}_T$, and $g^{s}_T$ needed to probe novel tensor interactions at the TeV scale in neutron and nuclear $β$-decays and the contribution of the quark electric dipole moment (EDM) to the neutron EDM. The lattice QCD calculations were done using nine ensembles of gauge configurations generated by the MILC collaboration using the HISQ action with 2+1+1 dynamical flavors. These ensembles span three lattice spacings $a \approx 0.06, 0.09$ and $0.12 $ fm and three quark masses corresponding to the pion masses $M_π\approx 130, 220$ and $310 $ MeV. Using estimates from these ensembles, we quantify all systematic uncertainties and perform a simultaneous extrapolation in the lattice spacing, volume and light quark masses for the connected contributions. The final estimates of the connected nucleon (proton) tensor charge for the iso-vector combination is $g_T^{u-d} = 1.020(76) $ in the $\bar{\text{MS}}$ scheme at $2$ GeV. The additional disconnected quark loop contributions needed for the flavor-diagonal matrix elements are calculated using a stochastic estimator employing the truncated solver method with the all-mode-averaging technique. We find that the size of the disconnected contribution is smaller than the statistical error in the connected contribution. This allows us to bound the disconnected contribution and include it as an additional uncertainty in the flavor-diagonal charges. After a continuum extrapolation, we find $g_T^{u} = 0.774(66) $, $g_T^{d} = -0.233(28) $ and $g_T^{u+d} = 0.541(67) $. The strangeness tensor charge, that can make a significant contribution to the neutron EDM due to the large ratio $m_s/m_{u,d}$, is $g_T^{s}=0.008(9)$ in the continuum limit.
description: Final published version
Supporting and Fostering Parental Engagement in Northern Alberta Rural Elementary Schools
Creators: Kevin Munch
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

For many years, educational researchers have attempted to answer the questions, how do effective school leaders involve parents in education and what effects, if any, does this increased involvement have on student academic success. Building on the works of Jeynes (2018), Goodall and Montgomery (2014), Hoover-Dempsey and Sandler (1997), and Stelmach and Herrera-Farfan (2019), this article will attempt to analyse and review effective means to foster and support parental engagement in northern Alberta rural elementary schools. This study was conducted in Peace River School Division using three principals as the study group. I begin by first examining the confusion between parental school involvement and parental engagement in student academics and the assumptions around the effects of parental engagement. A literature review around the topic of parental engagement was conducted and used to analyse the responses from the study with particular focus on identifying barriers to parental engagement and effective strategies to increase engagement in local communities. The paper concludes with a discussion of the results of the study including: (a) an understanding of involvement and engagement, (b) strategies for establishing relationships and trust, (c) understanding and sensitivity to barriers

and, (d) the importance of planning for implementation. Finally, I postulate a series of recommendations to the Peace River School Division outlining: (a) a professional development plan, (b) revisions to current policies and administrative procedures, (c) benefits of future research and collaboration to the division and other surrounding districts, (d) the need to examine parental engagement through the lens of a potential shift in the education paradigm, and (e) the need for the profession to establish causality so a direct connection between increased parental engagement and improved academic results can be determined.
Semiparametric Regression Analysis of Multiple Right- and Interval-Censored Events
Creators: name: Zeng, D.
name: Couper, D.
name: Gao, F.
name: Lin, D.Y.
Publisher: name: American Statistical Association
Year: 2019

description: Health sciences research often involves both right- and interval-censored events because the occurrence of a symptomatic disease can only be observed up to the end of follow-up, while the occurrence of an asymptomatic disease can only be detected through periodic examinations. We formulate the effects of potentially time-dependent covariates on the joint distribution of multiple right- and interval-censored events through semiparametric proportional hazards models with random effects that capture the dependence both within and between the two types of events. We consider nonparametric maximum likelihood estimation and develop a simple and stable EM algorithm for computation. We show that the resulting estimators are consistent and the parametric components are asymptotically normal and efficient with a covariance matrix that can be consistently estimated by profile likelihood or nonparametric bootstrap. In addition, we leverage the joint modelling to provide dynamic prediction of disease incidence based on the evolving event history. Furthermore, we assess the performance of the proposed methods through extensive simulation studies. Finally, we provide an application to a major epidemiological cohort study. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
title: The role of CT and MRI findings on the diagnosis of mesenteric tumor.
Creators: name: Matsunari, Kazuya
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Education and training
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: PET
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To learn mesenteric anatomy of CT and MRI. To learn diagnostic imagings of mesenteric...
Relativistic quantum dynamics of vector bosons in an Aharonov-Bohm potential
Creators: name: Castro, Luis B.
name: Silva, Edilberto O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Aharonov-Bohm (AB) problem for vector bosons by the Duffin-Kemmer-Petiau (DKP) formalism is analyzed. Depending on the values of the spin projection, the relevant eigenvalue equation coming from the DKP formalism reveals an equivalence to the spin-$1/2$ AB problem. By using the self-adjoint extension approach, we examine the bound state scenario. The energy spectra are explicitly computed as well as their dependencies on the magnetic flux parameter and also the conditions for the occurrence of bound states.
description: 7 pages
title: Arterial injuries in chest trauma: The role of imaging in diagnosis and treatment
Creators: name: Aristizabal, Julieta
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: CT
subject: Trauma
subject: Thorax
subject: Emergency
subject: Trauma

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To describe characteristics and advantages of CT angiography in the detection of arterial injurie after chest trauma. To present CT angiographic signs of arterial injuries. To illustrate the CT features from a spectrum of arterial injuries. To...
Discussion of “Penalized Spline of Propensity Methods for Treatment Comparison” by Zhou, Elliott, and Little
Creators: name: Zeng, D.
name: Yang, S.
Publisher: name: American Statistical Association
Year: 2019

description: We congratulate the authors on presenting this stimulating
article. The article proposes a novel estimation of the average
causal effects of the treatment strategies in the presence of timedependent
confounding by indication. Causal inference under
the potential outcomes framework can be viewed fromamissing
data perspective. The article extends the penalized spline of
propensity methods in handling missing data to causal inference
incorporating a temporal element into consideration.
Optimal Designs of Two-Phase Studies
Creators: name: Tao, R.
name: Zeng, D.
name: Lin, D.-Y.
Publisher: name: American Statistical Association
Year: 2019

description: The two-phase design is a cost-effective sampling strategy to evaluate the effects of covariates on an outcome when certain covariates are too expensive to be measured on all study subjects. Under such a design, the outcome and inexpensive covariates are measured on all subjects in the first phase and the first-phase information is used to select subjects for measurements of expensive covariates in the second phase. Previous research on two-phase studies has focused largely on the inference procedures rather than the design aspects. We investigate the design efficiency of the two-phase study, as measured by the semiparametric efficiency bound for estimating the regression coefficients of expensive covariates. We consider general two-phase studies, where the outcome variable can be continuous, discrete, or censored, and the second-phase sampling can depend on the first-phase data in any manner. We develop optimal or approximately optimal two-phase designs, which can be substantially more efficient than the existing designs. We demonstrate the improvements of the new designs over the existing ones through extensive simulation studies and two large medical studies. Supplementary materials for this article are available online.
Analysis of Protons and Alpha Particles in the Solar Wind with Parker Solar Probe
Creators: name: Johnson, Madisen
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Solar wind
Solar abundances
Solar physics

description: Parker Solar Probe (PSP) is a mission designed to explore properties of the solar wind closer than ever before. Up to now, detailed particle observations from the Solar Probe Cup (SPC) have primarily focused on examining the proton population in the solar wind. However, several periods throughout the PSP mission have indicated that SPC has also observed a pronounced and distinctive alpha population. Properties of minor ions, like He ++ , are imprinted with properties of the solar wind’s source region as well as mechanisms connected to the heating and acceleration of the solar wind making them sensitive markers of its origin and formation at the Sun. Through a detailed analysis of the alpha velocity distributions functions, this work examines periods where significant and persistent alpha peaks are observed with SPC to determine characteristics of the solar wind stream. We compute the He abundance as well as examine the velocity, temperature, and magnetic field properties throughout those periods to identify distinctive solar wind features that can provide insight to their solar source. Initial results show that the He ++ abundance observed with PSP is consistent with measurements observed with instruments near 1 au. This work is supported by the NSF-REU solar physics program at SAO, grant number AGS-1850750.
title: Extravasation of urine in pediatric blunt renal trauma; does the late excretory phase of CECT have a role in diagnosis?
Creators: name: Shokrey Hamed Ali, Mohamed
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Trauma
subject: Screening
subject: CT
subject: Kidney

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Aims and objectives : To review epidemiology, mechanism and grading of blunt renal trauma in children, To evaluate the importance of late delayed phases of contrast enhanced CT (CECT) In diagnosis of partial pelvicalyceal system (PCS) laceration and...
On Compensation Primitives as Adaptable Processes
Creators: name: Dedeić, Jovana
name: Pantović, Jovanka
name: Pérez, Jorge A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: F.3.2

description: We compare mechanisms for compensation handling and dynamic update in calculi for concurrency. These mechanisms are increasingly relevant in the specification of reliable communicating systems. Compensations and updates are intuitively similar: both specify how the behavior of a concurrent system changes at runtime in response to an exceptional event. However, calculi with compensations and updates are technically quite different. We investigate the relative expressiveness of these calculi: we develop encodings of core process languages with compensations into a calculus of adaptable processes developed in prior work. Our encodings shed light on the (intricate) semantics of compensation handling and its key constructs. They also enable the transference of existing verification and reasoning techniques for adaptable processes to core languages with compensation handling.
description: In Proceedings EXPRESS/SOS 2015, arXiv:1508.06347
title: T1 dependence of magnetization transfer effect for macromolecules
Creators: name: Sasaki, Toshiaki
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Molecular, genomics and proteomics
subject: Image verification
subject: Physics
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: Imaging sequences
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: MR
subject: Radiation physics
subject: MR physics
subject: Hybrid Imaging
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Magnetization transfer (MT) is a cross relaxation phenomenon in which the proton is able to move freely; known as bulk water and bound water. The MT effect is observed and provides the signal attenuation for the MT pulse; then, a RF pulse is added...
title: Vereinbarkeitsproblematik? Papperlapapp!
title: Die Hindernisse auf der akademischen Karriereleiter sind vielfältiger als angenommen
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Fankhauser, Lilian
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Frauen
subject: Wissenschaft
subject: Beruf
subject: Berufstätigkeit
subject: Vereinbarkeit
subject: Gleichstellungspolitik
subject: Mutterschaft
subject: Universität
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften
subject: Schweiz

description: Wenn wir von der Abteilung für Gleichstellung bei unseren Streifzügen durch die Universität Bern Personen in führenden Funktionen nach den Gründen fragen, warum es an unserer Universität nach wie vor so wenige Professorinnen gebe (gegenwärtig 20%), hören wir meist diese Antwort: Es sei halt schwierig, Mutterschaft und akademische Karriere zu vereinbaren. Ist das wirklich so einfach?
title: Chick Lit Gone Ethnic, Chick Lit Gone Global?!
title: Die Rezeption eines transnationalen Genres im plural-queeren Vergleich
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Folie, Sandra
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Queer
subject: Gender
subject: Intersektionalität
subject: Ethnizität
subject: Heteronormativität
subject: Literatur
subject: 800 Literatur und Rhetorik

description: Chick lit wurde als angloamerikanisches, ‚weißes‘, heterosexuelles Mittelklassephänomen im Stil von „Bridget Jones’s Diary“ (1996) bekannt, hat sich jedoch rasch verändert und neben Genre und Gender auch kulturelle, geographische und linguistische Grenzen überschritten. In die jüngere Literaturgeschichte ging diese Entwicklung als Transfer vom ‚originalen‘ Genre zu zahlreichen adaptierten Subgenres, vom ‚Zentrum‘ in die ‚Peripherie‘ ein. Um dieses von Buchhandel, Verlagen und Literaturwissenschaft/-kritik (re-)produzierte Narrativ infrage zu stellen, eignet sich eine plural-queere Perspektive, die einem Sex/Gender-Zentrismus, der weitere soziale Ungleichheitskategorien wie ‚race‘/‚Ethnizität‘ hintanstellt, ebenso kritisch gegenübersteht wie der Heteronormativität. Durch einen Vergleich der homogenisierenden Rezeption der chick lit mit ihren subversiven Anfängen und Entwicklungen wird das queere, im Zuge der Kommerzialisierung weitgehend unsichtbar gemachte Potential des Genres gezeigt.
(102546) John James Agar
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Optimal Phonon-to-Spin Mapping in a system of a trapped ion
Creators: name: Müller, Matthias M.
name: Poschinger, Ulrich G.
name: Calarco, Tommaso
name: Montangero, Simone
name: Schmidt-Kaler, Ferdinand
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a protocol for measurement of the phonon number distribution of a harmonic oscillator based on selective mapping to a discrete spin-1/2 degree of freedom. We consider a system of a harmonically trapped ion, where a transition between two long lived states can be driven with resolved motional sidebands. The required unitary transforms are generated by amplitude-modulated polychromatic radiation fields, where the time-domain ramps are obtained from numerical optimization by application of the Chopped RAndom Basis (CRAB) algorithm. We provide a detailed analysis of the scaling behavior of the attainable fidelities and required times for the mapping transform with respect to the size of the Hilbert space. As one application we show how the mapping can be employed as a building block for experiments which require measurement of the work distribution of a quantum process.
Mendelian randomization of inorganic arsenic metabolism as a risk factor for hypertension- And diabetes-related traits among adults in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL) cohort
Creators: name: Mossavar-Rahmani, Y.
name: Sofer, T.
name: Daviglus, M.L.
name: Zeng, D.
name: Scannell Bryan, M.
name: Argos, M.
name: Thyagarajan, B.
Publisher: name: Oxford University Press
Year: 2019

description: Background: Hypertension and diabetes have been associated with inefficient arsenic metabolism, primarily through studies undertaken in populations exposed through drinking water. Recently, rice has been recognized as a source of arsenic exposure, but it remains unclear whether populations with high rice consumption but no known water exposure are at risk for the health problems associated with inefficient arsenic metabolism. Methods: The relationships between arsenic metabolism efficiency (% inorganic arsenic, % monomethylarsenate and % dimethylarsinate in urine) and three hypertension- and seven diabetes-related traits were estimated among 12 609 participants of the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos (HCHS/SOL). A two-sample Mendelian randomization approach incorporated genotype-arsenic metabolism relationships from literature, and genotype-trait relationships from HCHS/SOL, with a mixed-effect linear model. Analyses were stratified by rice consumption and smoking. Results: Among never smokers with high rice consumption, each percentage point increase in was associated with increases of 1.96 mmHg systolic blood pressure (P = 0.034) and 1.85 mmHg inorganic arsenic diastolic blood pressure (P = 0.003). Monomethylarsenate was associated with increased systolic (1.64 mmHg/percentage point increase; P = 0.021) and diastolic (1.33 mmHg/percentage point increase; P = 0.005) blood pressure. Dimethylarsinate, a marker of efficient metabolism, was associated with lower systolic (-0.92 mmHg/percentage point increase; P = 0.025) and diastolic (-0.79 mmHg/percentage point increase; P = 0.004) blood pressure. Among low rice consumers and ever smokers, the results were consistent with no association. Evidence for a relationship with diabetes was equivocal. Conclusions: Less efficient arsenic metabolism was associated with increased blood pressure among never smokers with high rice consumption, suggesting that arsenic exposure through rice may contribute to high blood pressure in the Hispanic/Latino community.
title: A pictorial review of the impact of additional value of diffusion-weighted MR imaging to other MR sequences for assessment of renal pelvic carcinoma.
Creators: name: Yoshida, Rika
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Kidney
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cancer

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The purpose of this article is to review the utility of diffusion-weighted MR imaging (DWI) findings in renal pelvic carcinoma compared to other sequences, and to become familiar with the wide useful points of DWI findings of renal pelvic...
Gumbel regression models for a monotone increasing continuous biomarker subject to measurement error
Creators: name: Zeng, D.
name: Hyun, N.
name: Couper, D.J.
Publisher: name: Elsevier B.V.
Year: 2019

description: Right- or left-skewed continuous biomarker measurements are often confronted in practice. The extreme values located in the long tail of skewed distributions indicate abnormal health status, and characterizing the features of a subgroup with abnormally high(or low) values is important for risk management. Furthermore, a biomarker is usually subject to measurement error. In the presence of these two challenging issues, existing methods for analyzing skewed biomarker data are no longer applicable. In this paper, we propose a semiparametric method based on Gumbel distributions while accounting for measurement error in a biomarker and adjusting for a monotone age effect on biomarker levels. We estimate the model parameters using the nonparametric maximum likelihood approach and implement computation via the EM algorithm. We establish the asymptotic properties of the proposed estimators and summarize simulation results to assess the numerical performance of the proposed method. The method is illustrated through an application to data from a diabetes ancillary study to the Atherosclerosis Risk in Communities (ARIC) Study.
SOS rule formats for convex and abstract probabilistic bisimulations
Creators: name: D'Argenio, Pedro R.
name: Lee, Matias David
name: Gebler, Daniel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Probabilistic transition system specifications (PTSSs) in the $nt μfθ/ ntμxθ$ format provide structural operational semantics for Segala-type systems that exhibit both probabilistic and nondeterministic behavior and guarantee that bisimilarity is a congruence for all operator defined in such format. Starting from the $nt μfθ/ ntμxθ$ format, we obtain restricted formats that guarantee that three coarser bisimulation equivalences are congruences. We focus on (i) Segala's variant of bisimulation that considers combined transitions, which we call here "convex bisimulation"; (ii) the bisimulation equivalence resulting from considering Park & Milner's bisimulation on the usual stripped probabilistic transition system (translated into a labelled transition system), which we call here "probability obliterated bisimulation"; and (iii) a "probability abstracted bisimulation", which, like bisimulation, preserves the structure of the distributions but instead, it ignores the probability values. In addition, we compare these bisimulation equivalences and provide a logic characterization for each of them.
description: In Proceedings EXPRESS/SOS 2015, arXiv:1508.06347
title: Management of breast cancer in pregnancy
Creators: name: Mancarella, Ilaria
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care
subject: Cancer
subject: Chemotherapy
subject: Biopsy
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Oncology
subject: Breast

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Clinical management of patients affected by breast cancer in...
Preparing for trouble: identifying needs of a trauma training program
Creators: name: Blumenstyk, Eric
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2022

description: Purpose of Project: To provide directed recommendations for the development of a nurse trauma training program. These recommendations are based on the confidence that nurses have in various scenariosMethodology: The study intervention consisted of a questionnaire that included both demographic information and questions about the respondent’s confidence in caring for certain types of patients. The first part collected information related to the respondents experience in nursing and level of educationResults: All respondents reported less confidence in taking care of patients that had a spinal cord injury, penetrating thoracic injury, or burns. Confidence responses had a higher degree of correlation with experience and frequency in trauma then with education and number of certifications. TNCC had the lowest correlation with confidence compared to ACLS, PALS, and CPR/BLSImplications on Practice: Using these findings, the education department can develop a custom-tailored training program that addresses the weakness of staff. With further dissemination, this project can be expanded to other areas of the hospital that care for trauma patients to enhance their level of confidence.
title: Role of CT in neutropenic enterocolitis evaluation in HIV + patients: experience in an infectious diseases hospital
Creators: name: Palumbo, Cristiana
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Infection
subject: AIDS
subject: Education
subject: CT
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The learning objectives of this study is the identification of typical CT signs seen in neutropenic enterocolitis and of its complications in the immunocompromised patient as HIV +...
Exploring the ecological niches and bioclimatic differences of the greater and lesser Capybara
Creators: name: Kay, Jordan
name: Dudek, Daniel
Publisher: name: QUBES Educational Resources
Year: 2023

description: In my study, I explored the differences in ecological niches and bioclimatic preferences of the Greater and Lesser Capybara. Wallace was used in obtaining the locality and bioclimatic data required to generate ecological niche models and determine if any significant differences existed between the species. The lack of information regarding the lesser capybara, indicated by the data deficient designation on IUCN, emphasizes the need to study the differences between both species rather than assuming they are the same. With the literature indicating that the lesser capybara is a subspecies with little ecological differences, I hypothesized that there would not be any significant differences in the bioclimatic variables predicting their ecological niche. However, I discovered that there was a significant difference in the minimum temperature of the coldest month and temperature seasonality between the two species.
title: Comparison of degree of enhancement on Contrast-Enhanced Spectral Mammography (CESM) and lesion characteristics on Mammography (MG) based on lesion histology
Creators: name: Luczynska, Elzbieta
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Comparative studies
subject: Mammography
subject: Oncology
subject: Contrast agents
subject: Breast

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Contrast-Enhanced Spectral Mammography (CESM) is a new method that enable breast cancer detection in which an iodinated contrast agent is injected and dual-energy mammography is performed. Typically, CESM is used for evaluating patients with...
Confinement-Deconfinment Phase Transition for Heavy Quarks
Creators: name: Yang, Yi
name: Yuan, Pei-Hung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study confinement-deconfinement phase transition for heavy quarks in a bottom-up holographic QCD model. We consider a black hole background in an Einstein-Maxwell-scalar system and add probe open strings to the background. Combining the various configurations of the open strings and the phase structure of the black hole background itself, we obtain the confinement-deconfinement phase diagram for heavy quarks in the holographic QCD model.
description: 23 pages, 14 figures, published in JHEP. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1301.0385
title: Blitze, Frösche, Chaos
title: Das Glücksversprechen des New Materialism oder wieso Trans*materialisierungen (über-)lebensnotwendig sind
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Hoenes, Josch
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Trans
subject: Transsexualität
subject: Körper
subject: Kultur
subject: Natur
subject: Literatur
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: In ihrem Text „Transmaterialities“ entwickelt Karen Barad ein quantenfeldtheoretisches Verständnis von Materie und erforscht ihr Potenzial für Formen des Transempowerments. In der kritischen Auseinandersetzung mit Susan Strykers Text „My Words to Victor Frankenstein“ untersucht der vorliegende Artikel Barads Argumentation in einem experimentellen close reading und formuliert ernsthafte Zweifel an dieser Form der Ermächtigung. Obwohl Barad die alltagsweltliche Vorstellung fester, unveränderlicher Materie, die die Natürlichkeit des Sex garantiert, in Frage stellt, überdehnt sie den Begriff der Natur: Sowohl die kulturelle symbolische Gewalt, der trans* Menschen ausgesetzt sind, als auch die vielfältigen Materialbildungen von trans* Körpern, die zu einem glücklichen Leben führen ohne sich an heteronormative Ideale anzupassen, werden unsichtbar gemacht. Statt technische Utopien zu entwerfen, plädiert der Artikel für konkretere Analysen darüber, wie Kultur und Natur miteinander verschränkt sind, sowie für eine Praxis der Transgender-Studien, die in den konkreten Erfahrungen und Lebenspraktiken von trans* Menschen verwurzelt ist. Insofern das Phänomen trans* die Grenzen der Rationalität westlicher Wissenschaft berührt, können Barads Gedankenexperiment und seine poetische Schreibweise wichtige Denkanstöße für die Untersuchung von trans* Erfahrungen und Praktiken aus kulturwissenschaftlicher Perspektive liefern, die trans* Menschen nicht in Laborfrösche verwandeln.
Estimating causal log-odds ratio using the case-control sample and its application in the pharmaco-epidemiology study
Creators: name: Li, L.
name: Zhang, P.
name: Zhu, A.
name: Zeng, D.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Ltd
Year: 2019

description: One important goal in pharmaco-epidemiology studies is to understand the causal relationship between drug exposures and their clinical outcomes, including adverse drug events. In order to achieve this goal, however, we need to resolve several challenges. Most of pharmaco-epidemiology data are observational and confounding is largely present due to many co-medications. The pharmaco-epidemiology study data set is often sampled from large medical record databases using a matched case-control design, and it may not be representative of the original patient population in the medical record databases. Data analysis method needs to handle a large sample size that cannot be handled using existing statistical analysis packages. In this paper, we tackle these challenges both methodologically and computationally. We propose a conditional causal log-odds ratio (OR) definition to characterize causal effects of drug exposures on a binary adverse drug event adjusting for individual level confounders. Using a case-control design, we present a propensity score estimation using only case samples and we provide sufficient conditions for the consistency of the estimation of the causal log-odds ratio using case-based propensity scores. Computationally, we implement a principle component analysis to reduce high-dimensional confounders. Extensive simulation studies are performed to demonstrate superior performance of our method to existing methods. Finally, we apply the proposed method to analyze drug-induced myopathy data sampled from a de-identified subset of medical record database (close to 5 million patient records), The Indiana Network for Patient Care. Our method identified 70 drug-induced myopathy (p < 0.05) out 72 drugs, which have myoathy side effects on their FDA drug labels. These 70 drugs include three statins who are known for their myopathy side effects.
Star Formation in a Turbulent Framework: From Giant Molecular Clouds to Protostars
Creators: name: Guszejnov, David
name: Hopkins, Philip F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Turbulence is thought to be a primary driving force behind the early stages of star formation. In this framework large, self gravitating, turbulent clouds fragment into smaller clouds which in turn fragment into even smaller ones. At the end of this cascade we find the clouds which collapse into protostars. Following this process is extremely challenging numerically due to the large dynamical range so in this paper we propose a semi analytic framework which is able to follow star formation from the largest, giant molecular cloud (GMC) scale, to the final protostellar size scale. Due to the simplicity of the framework it is ideal for theoretical experimentation to explore the principal processes behind different aspects of star formation, at the cost of strong assumptions. The basic version of the model discussed in this paper only contains turbulence, gravity and crude assumptions about feedback, nevertheless it can reproduce the observed core mass function (CMF) and provide the protostellar system mass function (PSMF), which shows a striking resemblance to the observed IMF. Furthermore we find that to produce a universal IMF protostellar feedback must be taken into account otherwise the PSMF peak shows a strong dependence on the background temperature.
description: 13 pages, 13 figures
title: Zum sozialpsychologischen Konzept internalisierter Homophobie
title: Eine Rekonstruktion ‚integrierter Identität‘ als Emanzipationsvision
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Brodersen, Folke
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Homosexualität
subject: Homofeindlichkeit
subject: Emanzipation
subject: Diskurs
subject: Subjekt
subject: Sexualität
subject: Identität
subject: 300 Sozialwissenschaften

description: Das sozialpsychologische Konzept internalisierter Homophobie ist vielfach präsent in Wissenschaft, Psychotherapie und politischem Aktivismus. Es erklärt psychische Belastungen Schwuler und Lesben durch die Übernahme abwertender gesellschaftlicher Werthaltungen und Stereotype. Damit assoziierte Folgen seien verminderter Selbstwert, Beziehungsprobleme, sexuelle Risikopraxen bis hin zur Suizidalität. Der Beitrag rekonstruiert dieses wissenschaftliche Konzept ausgehend von den verwendeten Messskalen. Die Operationalisierungen der gesellschaftlichen Beschädigung setzen ex negativo ein gesundes homosexuelles Subjekt voraus und vermessen dessen (in)kohärentes Selbst anhand der Integration lesbischer bzw. schwuler Identität. Indikator dafür seien der unerschrockene Wunsch nach einem Comingout, der Stolz auf die eigene Sexualität und die Bewahrung der erwarteten Eigengruppe. Derartige Selbstverhältnisse bilden die politische Vision des wissenschaftlichen Diskurses und den Horizont der anvisierten, individuell zu verantwortenden Emanzipation.
title: Patterns of thyroid cancer recurrence – in a large tertiary referral centre.
Creators: name: Vaidyanathan, Sriram
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: CT
subject: Head and neck
subject: Ear / Nose / Throat
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Education
subject: Multidisciplinary cancer care

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To identify patterns of thyroid cancer recurrence based upon the experience of a large tertiary referral...
Analysing and Comparing Encodability Criteria
Creators: name: Peters, Kirstin
name: van Glabbeek, Rob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Encodings or the proof of their absence are the main way to compare process calculi. To analyse the quality of encodings and to rule out trivial or meaningless encodings, they are augmented with quality criteria. There exists a bunch of different criteria and different variants of criteria in order to reason in different settings. This leads to incomparable results. Moreover it is not always clear whether the criteria used to obtain a result in a particular setting do indeed fit to this setting. We show how to formally reason about and compare encodability criteria by mapping them on requirements on a relation between source and target terms that is induced by the encoding function. In particular we analyse the common criteria full abstraction, operational correspondence, divergence reflection, success sensitiveness, and respect of barbs; e.g. we analyse the exact nature of the simulation relation (coupled simulation versus bisimulation) that is induced by different variants of operational correspondence. This way we reduce the problem of analysing or comparing encodability criteria to the better understood problem of comparing relations on processes.
description: In Proceedings EXPRESS/SOS 2015, arXiv:1508.06347. The Isabelle/HOL source files, and a full proof document, are available in the Archive of Formal Proofs, at http://afp.sourceforge.net/entries/Encodability_Process_Calculi.shtml
(102542) Catherine Annie Lowther
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Phenotype and QTL mapping data from: Genetic trade-offs underlie divergent life history strategies for local adaptation in white clover
Creators: name: Olsen, Kenneth
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Local adaptation is common in plants, yet characterization of its underlying genetic basis is rare in herbaceous perennials. Moreover, while many plant species exhibit intraspecific chemical defense polymorphisms, their importance for local adaptation remains poorly understood. We examined the genetic architecture of local adaptation in a perennial, obligately-outcrossing herbaceous legume, white clover (Trifolium repens). This widespread species displays a well-studied chemical defense polymorphism for cyanogenesis (HCN release following tissue damage) and has evolved climate-associated cyanogenesis clines throughout its range. Two biparental F2 mapping populations, derived from three parents collected in environments spanning the U.S. latitudinal species range (Duluth, MN, St. Louis, MO and Gainesville, FL), were grown in triplicate for two years in reciprocal common garden experiments in the parental environments (6,012 total plants). Vegetative growth and reproductive fitness traits displayed trade-offs across reciprocal environments, indicating local adaptation. Genetic mapping of fitness traits revealed a genetic architecture characterized by allelic trade-offs between environments, with 100% and 80% of fitness QTL in the two mapping populations showing significant QTL X E interactions, consistent with antagonistic pleiotropy. Across the genome there were three hotspots of QTL co-localization. Unexpectedly, we found little evidence that the cyanogenesis polymorphism contributes to local adaptation. Instead, divergent life history strategies in reciprocal environments were major fitness determinants: selection favored early investment in flowering at the cost of multi-year survival in the southernmost site vs. delayed flowering and multi-year persistence in the northern environments. Our findings demonstrate that multi-locus genetic tradeoffs contribute to contrasting life history characteristics that allow for local adaptation in this outcrossing herbaceous perennial.
description: Dryad files contain the following information: 1) Raw phenotype data used for all quantitative trait and genetic mapping analyses (four.csv files for the two reciprocal comparisons: DMN, GFL-DG, STL, and GFL-SG). 2) Full results from QTL mapping analysis (R printouts from all models as.txt files) 3) R scripts for various analyses (corresponding figures and tables from the study are indicated in parentheses): -λ calculations and correlations with Year 1 floral count (Figure S1) -within-site trait variance and broad-sense heritability (Table S3) -within-site trait correlations and PCAs (Figure S3,S6) -across-site trait variance (Figure 1, Table S5, Table S6) -rGE correlations (Figure 2, Table S4) -QTL mapping analysis (Figure 3, Table 2, Table S7) -QTL×E post-hoc analysis (Figure 4, Figure S7,S8, Table S8)
STROBE-checklist-v4-cohort completed.doc
Creators: name: Sibhat, Migbar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Diseases
subject: 110310 Intensive Care
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 111799 Public Health and Health Services not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: This is a reporting guideline (STROBE checklist) applied in our study entitled "Survival status and predictors of mortality among mechanically ventilated COVID-19 patients in Addis Ababa COVID-19 Care Centers, Ethiopia: A survival analysis". We confirm that the study is conducted based on the STROBE reporting guideline and the completed checklist is presented in this repository.