cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Diabetes medications and associations with Covid-19 outcomes in the N3C database: A national retrospective cohort study
Creators: name: Hong, S.
name: Kahkoska, A.
name: Evans, M.D.
name: N3C core authors
name: Alamgir, J.
name: Johnson, S.G.
name: Harper, J.
name: Yang, K.
name: Garcia, V.
name: Bramante, C.T.
name: Buse, J.B.
name: Stürmer, T.
name: Wilkins, K.J.
name: Alexander, C.
name: Abrahamsen, T.
name: Huling, J.D.
name: Hartman, K.
name: Tronieri, J.
name: Koraishy, F.
name: Mehta, H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Background While vaccination is the most important way to combat the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic, there may still be a need for early outpatient treatment that is safe, inexpensive, and currently widely available in parts of the world that do not have access to the vaccine. There are in-silico, in-vitro, and in-tissue data suggesting that metformin inhibits the viral life cycle, as well as observational data suggesting that metformin use before infection with SARS-CoV2 is associated with less severe COVID-19. Previous observational analyses from single-center cohorts have been limited by size. Methods Conducted a retrospective cohort analysis in adults with type 2 diabetes (T2DM) for associations between metformin use and COVID-19 outcomes with an active comparator design of prevalent users of therapeutically equivalent diabetes monotherapy: metformin versus dipeptidyl-peptidase-4-inhibitors (DPP4i) and sulfonylureas (SU). This took place in the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) longitudinal U.S. cohort of adults with +SARS-CoV-2 result between January 1 2020 to June 1 2021. Findings included hospitalization or ventilation or mortality from COVID-19. Back pain was assessed as a negative control outcome. Results 6,626 adults with T2DM and +SARS-CoV-2 from 36 sites. Mean age was 60.7 +/- 12.0 years; 48.7% male; 56.7% White, 21.9% Black, 3.5% Asian, and 16.7% Latinx. Mean BMI was 34.1 +/- 7.8kg/m2. Overall 14.5% of the sample was hospitalized; 1.5% received mechanical ventilation; and 1.8% died. In adjusted outcomes, compared to DPP4i, metformin had non-significant associations with reduced need for ventilation (RR 0.68, 0.32–1.44), and mortality (RR 0.82, 0.41–1.64). Compared to SU, metformin was associated with a lower risk of ventilation (RR 0.5, 95% CI 0.28–0.98, p = 0.044) and mortality (RR 0.56, 95% CI 0.33–0.97, p = 0.037). There was no difference in unadjusted or adjusted results of the negative control. Conclusions There were clinically significant associations between metformin use and less severe COVID-19 compared to SU, but not compared to DPP4i. New-user studies and randomized trials are needed to assess early outpatient treatment and post-exposure prophylaxis with therapeutics that are safe in adults, children, pregnancy and available worldwide.
Mobbing an Unterstufen Theoriebasierender Workshop zur Mobbing-Sensibilisierung mit Fokus auf die fachlichen Möglichkeiten und Grenzen der Psychomotoriktherapie im Schulsetting
Creators: name: Hostettler, Seraina
name: Wildhaber, Nadine
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Psychomotorik
Psychomotoriktherapie
Mobbing
Schule
Bachelorarbeit

description: In dieser Arbeit geht es darum, das Bewusstsein der Existenz von Mobbing zu stärken. Das Ziel ist es, mittels theoriebasiertem Workshop PsychomotoriktherapeutInnen zum Thema Mobbing an Unterstufen zu sensibilisieren. Zur Sensibilisierung wird ein fundiertes Wissen über die Thematik gefordert, welches durch eine theoretische Grundlage mittels Literaturarbeit erworben wird. Durch gemeinsames Erarbeiten der Möglichkeiten und Grenzen im Schulsetting wird der Einbezug der fachlichen Kompetenzen verdeutlicht. Mobbing ist ein Gruppenphänomen, bei welchem verschiedene Akteure betroffen sind. Die Kommunikation zwischen den beteiligten Personen ist dabei zentral. PsychomotoriktherapeutInnen haben im Anti-Mobbing-Prozess, insbesondere durch ihr Wissen in der sozio-emotionalen Entwicklung, viele Möglichkeiten. Sie sind vielfach aber durch scheinbar fehlende Ressourcen eingeschränkt.
Additional file 1 of New insights into QTNs and potential candidate genes governing rice yield via a multi-model genome-wide association study
Creators: name: Sachdeva, Supriya
name: Singh, Rakesh
name: Maurya, Avantika
name: Singh, Vikas K
name: Singh, Uma Maheshwar
name: Kumar, Arvind
name: Singh, Gyanendra Pratap
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary material 1.
Cerebellin-1 leads the way
Creators: name: McCormick, L.E.
name: Gupton, S.L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: The cerebellin family of proteins influences synapse formation and function. In this issue of PLOS Biology, Han and colleagues identify a new role for Cerebellin-1 in axon growth and guidance.
Oxygen enrichment in carbon-rich planetary nebulae
Creators: name: Delgado-Inglada, Gloria
name: Rodríguez, Mónica
name: Peimbert, Manuel
name: Stasińska, Grażyna
name: Morisset, Christophe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the relation between the chemical composition and the type of dust present in a group of 20 Galactic planetary nebulae (PNe) that have high quality optical and infrared spectra. The optical spectra are used, together with the best available ionization correction factors, to calculate the abundances of Ar, C, Cl, He, N, Ne, and O relative to H. The infrared spectra are used to classify the PNe in two groups depending on whether the observed dust features are representative of oxygen-rich or carbon-rich environments. The sample contains one object from the halo, eight from the bulge, and eleven from the local disc. We compare their chemical abundances with nucleosynthesis model predictions and with the ones obtained in seven Galactic H II regions of the solar neighbourhood. We find evidence of O enrichment (by $\sim$ 0.3 dex) in all but one of the PNe with carbon-rich dust (CRD). Our analysis shows that Ar, and especially Cl, are the best metallicity indicators of the progenitors of PNe. There is a tight correlation between the abundances of Ar and Cl in all the objects, in agreement with a lockstep evolution of both elements. The range of metallicities implied by the Cl abundances covers one order of magnitude and we find significant differences in the initial masses and metallicities of the PNe with CRD and oxygen-rich dust (ORD). The PNe with CRD tend to have intermediate masses and low metallicities, whereas most of the PNe with ORD show higher enrichments in N and He, suggesting that they had high-mass progenitors.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS. 14 pages, 8 figures, 5 tables
Historical development of accelerometry measures and methods for physical activity and sedentary behavior research worldwide: A scoping review of observational studies of adults
Creators: name: Peter, K.M.
name: Scherer, E.
name: Evenson, K.R.
name: Cuthbertson, C.C.
name: Eckman, S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: This scoping review identified observational studies of adults that utilized accelerometry to assess physical activity and sedentary behavior. Key elements on accelerometry data collection were abstracted to describe current practices and completeness of reporting. We searched three databases (PubMed, Web of Science, and SPORTDiscus) on June 1, 2021 for articles published up to that date. We included studies of non-institutionalized adults with an analytic sample size of at least 500. The search returned 5686 unique records. After reviewing 1027 full-text publications, we identified and abstracted accelerometry characteristics on 155 unique observational studies (154 cross-sectional/cohort studies and 1 case control study). The countries with the highest number of studies included the United States, the United Kingdom, and Japan. Fewer studies were identified from the continent of Africa. Five of these studies were distributed donor studies, where participants connected their devices to an application and voluntarily shared data with researchers. Data collection occurred between 1999 to 2019. Most studies used one accelerometer (94.2%), but 8 studies (5.2%) used 2 accelerometers and 1 study (0.6%) used 4 accelerometers. Accelerometers were more commonly worn on the hip (48.4%) as compared to the wrist (22.3%), thigh (5.4%), other locations (14.9%), or not reported (9.0%). Overall, 12.7% of the accelerometers collected raw accelerations and 44.6% were worn for 24 hours/day throughout the collection period. The review identified 155 observational studies of adults that collected accelerometry, utilizing a wide range of accelerometer data processing methods. Researchers inconsistently reported key aspects of the process from collection to analysis, which needs addressing to support accurate comparisons across studies.
Debiasing the Cloze Task in Sequential Recommendation with Bidirectional Transformers
Creators: name: Damak, Khalil
name: Khenissi, Sami
name: Nasraoui, Olfa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Bidirectional Transformer architectures are state-of-the-art sequential recommendation models that use a bi-directional representation capacity based on the Cloze task, a.k.a. Masked Language Modeling. The latter aims to predict randomly masked items within the sequence. Because they assume that the true interacted item is the most relevant one, an exposure bias results, where non-interacted items with low exposure propensities are assumed to be irrelevant. The most common approach to mitigating exposure bias in recommendation has been Inverse Propensity Scoring (IPS), which consists of down-weighting the interacted predictions in the loss function in proportion to their propensities of exposure, yielding a theoretically unbiased learning. In this work, we argue and prove that IPS does not extend to sequential recommendation because it fails to account for the temporal nature of the problem. We then propose a novel propensity scoring mechanism, which can theoretically debias the Cloze task in sequential recommendation. Finally we empirically demonstrate the debiasing capabilities of our proposed approach and its robustness to the severity of exposure bias.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures, Accepted at KDD '22
Some Hermite-Hadamard type inequalities for the product of two operator preinvex functions
Creators: name: Ghazanfari, A. G.
name: Barani, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we introduce operator preinvex functions and es- tablish a Hermite-Hadamard type inequality for such functions. We give an estimate of the right hand side of a Hermite-Hadamard type inequality in which some operator preinvex functions of selfadjoint operators in Hilbert spaces are involved. Also some Hermite-Hadamard type inequalities for the product of two operator preinvex functions are given.
description: arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1306.0730
SARS-CoV-2 presents amino acid sequences, analogous to those of the Epstein-Barr Virus - Human Gammaherpesvirus 4.
Creators: name: Geraldes, Cesar Fernandes
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Epstein-Barr Virus
EBV
SARS-CoV-2

description: The study crossed the amino acids present in SARS-CoV-2 with those of the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). The search is for similar structures. EBV is associated with several autoimmune diseases, immunodeficiencies, lymphoids and others. Especially diseases such as dermatomyositis, systemic lupus erythematosus, rheumatoid arthritis, Sjogren's syndrome, and multiple sclerosis. An integral disorder caused by EBV, is linked to children's visual perceptual syndrome of Alice in Wonderland. Using tools related to bioinformatics, it was possible to make comparisons dynamically. The results found were of several sequences of analogous amino acids, the most relevant being represented by the letters "FTSD", "AAVN", "VHNQ" and "APAM", with four codons each. And the sequence "TPAFD", with five codons.
Additional file 6 of New insights into QTNs and potential candidate genes governing rice yield via a multi-model genome-wide association study
Creators: name: Sachdeva, Supriya
name: Singh, Rakesh
name: Maurya, Avantika
name: Singh, Vikas K
name: Singh, Uma Maheshwar
name: Kumar, Arvind
name: Singh, Gyanendra Pratap
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary material 6.
Konzeption eines Projektbeteiligten-Feedbacksystems zur Verbesserung der menschlichen Leistungserbringung bei der Bauprojektabwicklung
Creators: name: John, Paul Christian
name: Weissinger, Marcel
Publisher: name: DuEPublico: Duisburg-Essen Publications online, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Year: 2023
Subjects: Feedback
Projektmanagement
Partizipation
Projektbeteiligte
Bauherr

description: Die Abwicklung eines Bauprojekts ist ein personalintensives Vorhaben. Entsprechend hat die menschliche Leistungserbringung einen maßgebenden Einfluss auf den Projekterfolg, der jedoch unter anderem deswegen häufig nicht vollständig erreicht wird. Um den Faktor der menschlichen Leistungserbringung zu stabilisieren bzw. zu verbessern, schlagen wir ein Projektbeteiligten-Feedbacksystem (PFS) vor. Mit dessen Hilfe sollen Projektbeteiligte dem Bauherrn mitteilen, was den Prozess ihrer Leistungserbringung einschränkt und wodurch dieser optimiert werden könnte. Einerseits werden hierdurch Potenziale auf der oftmals zu wenig beachteten sozialen Ebene identifiziert, andererseits hat die direkte Einbeziehung der Beteiligten in die Gestaltung ihrer Leistungsbedingungen einen positiven Einfluss auf das Engagement der Leistungserbringung. Entscheidende Elemente des PFS sind die Stellungnahmeverpflichtung des Bauherrn zu jedem Feedback und der Follow-up-Prozess zu Maßnahmen aus identifizierten Potenzialen. Dadurch werden Transparenz und Mitgestaltung sichergestellt sowie der wirtschaftliche Nutzen des Systems für das Projekt im Blick behalten.
Protocolo-Pharmacologic treatment of neuroleptic-induced akathisia. A systematic review.pdf
Creators: name: Aguilar Núñez, Joselin Dayana
name: Iza Casa, Cristian Sebastian
name: Ponce Quijije, Lorelyn Melissa
name: Pachala Cañas, Daniel Alberto
name: Trujillo Medina, Shareen Scarleth
name: Robles Collahuazo, Santiago Rafael
name: Pilacuán Arévalo, Odalys Nayelly
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 320221
subject: Psychiatry (incl. psychotherapy)

description: Neuroleptic-induced akathisia is a side effect of such medication antidepressants (especially selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors), antipsychotics, and some antiepileptics (such as the gabapentin), which affects the frontal cortex of the brain and the limbic system, leading to complications in the patient's reasoning and emotional state, limiting their ability to make timely decisions. This occurs because the patient experiences psychomotor restlessness, which compels them to perform unusual or erratic movements.The main treatment for neuroleptic-induced akathisia involves inhibiting it through a direct effect on the central nervous system, which can alleviate the signs and symptoms. Beta-blockers and anticholinergic drugs are some suitable medications for treating akathisia.The action of these medications may control the exaggerated movements exhibited by the patient.
Polarization Predictions for Inflationary CMB Power Spectrum Features
Creators: name: Miranda, V
name: Hu, Wayne
name: Dvorkin, Cora
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We conduct a model-independent analysis of temporal features during inflation in the large-scale CMB temperature power spectrum allowing for the possibility of non-negligible tensor contributions. Of 20 principal components of the inflationary history, the suppression of power at low multipoles beginning with a glitch at multipoles $\ell \sim 20-40$ implies deviations in 2-3 of them with 2-3$σ$ deviations in each, with larger values reflecting cases where tensors are allowed.If tensors are absent, the corresponding $E$-mode polarization features follow a similar pattern but are predicted to be up to twice as large. They offer the opportunity to soon double the significance of inflationary features or eliminate them as an explanation of temperature features. The tensor degeneracy with features in the temperature power spectrum is broken not only by $B$ but also by $E$-polarization. A precision measurement of $E$-mode polarization at multipoles from $\ell\sim 20-60$ can potentially provide an independent constraint on tensors that is less subject to dust foreground uncertainties.
description: 10 pages, 8 figures, submitted to PRD
COVID-19 Vaccination Among Individuals With Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Perception, Efficacy, and Safety
Creators: name: Kappelman, M.D.
name: Weaver, K.N.
name: Long, M.D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by SARS-CoV-2, has been the most significant global health crisis of the past century. The development of safe and effective vaccines has led to a reduction in COVID- 19-related hospitalizations and deaths; however, the clinical trials that led to US Food and Drug Administration Emergency Use Authorization and/or approval of the vaccines in the United States did not include individuals with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Because individuals with IBD are commonly treated with immunosuppressive medications, there had been concern for reduced vaccine efficacy in this population. This article provides an overview of the peer-reviewed literature addressing COVID-19 vaccination in individuals with IBD; details the perceptions of patients with IBD of COVID-19 vaccines, including how gastroenterologists can help to reduce vaccine hesitancy; and describes the humoral immune response to COVID-19 vaccines, with a majority of patients with IBD seroconverting following complete vaccination regardless of medication exposure. Additionally, low rates of IBD flare and similar rates of vaccine-related adverse events to those in the general population are described. Finally, the article provides current recommendations from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for COVID-19 vaccination in individuals with IBD.
Entwicklung und Auswertung einer Übungssammlung zur Förderung der grafomotorischen Kompetenzen bei erwachsenen, schulungewohnten Migranten in Integrationsklassen
Creators: name: Rüegg, Julia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Psychomotorik
Psychomotoriktherpaie
Schreibmotorik
Einwanderer
Bachelorarbeit

description: Erwachsene Migranten, die Alphabetisierungsklassen besuchen, bringen kaum Schulerfahrung mit und haben geringe oder keine Schriftkenntnisse. Durch die Auf-arbeitung der Grundlagen der Grafomotorik entstand eine Übungssammlung zur För-derung der grundlegenden Kompetenzen, auf denen der Schrifterwerb basiert. Daraus ergaben sich auch die Kriterien, nach denen die Übungen, der Klientel angepasst, ausgesucht und verändert wurden. Um die Wirksamkeit der Übungssammlung be-züglich des Fortschrittes in der grafomotorischen Entwicklung zu untersuchen, wurde eine Pre-Post-Design-Studie mit der GMT1 an einer Test- und an einer Kontrollgruppe gemacht. Die Resultate weisen darauf hin, dass Personen mit tiefem Ausgangsniveau, besonders von der Intervention profitieren könnten. Die Arbeit erläutert ausserdem, welche Bedeutung der Erwerb dieser Kompetenzen im Integrationsprozess hat.
Kinder krebskranker Eltern - Reaktionen auf die elterliche Erkrankung und Hinweise für die Arbeit mit betroffenen Kindern in der Psychomotoriktherapie
Creators: name: Solenthaler, Rahel
name: Solimine, Annina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017
Subjects: Psychomotorik
Psychomotoriktherapie
Kind
Bachelorarbeit

description: "Kinder krebskranker Eltern" beschäftigt sich mit dem Krankheitsbild Krebs, mit familiären und kindlichen Belastungen, welche mit der Erkrankung einhergehen sowie den entwicklungspsychologischen Aspekten der verschiedenen Altersstufen. Zusätzlich werden Praxisbezüge aus Medien und Gesprächen mit Fachpersonen und Betroffenen hergestellt. Häufige Themen von betroffenen Kindern werden untersucht. Schwerpunkte, die es in der Arbeit mit Kindern krebskranken Eltern in der Psychomotoriktherapie zu beachten gilt, werden herausgearbeitet und erläutert. Jede Altersstufe reagiert anders auf die elterliche Erkrankung. Häufige Reaktionen sind jedoch Gefühle wie Angst, Wut, Schuld und Trauer. In der Therapie ist es wichtig, Raum zu geben, um Gefühle auszudrücken, das Kind zu stärken und ihm einen Ausgleich zum Alltag zu bieten. Es gilt, die altersgerechte Kommunikation über die Krankheit zu fördern.
Supplementary document for Research on optical performance of Ln2O2S: Er3+/Yb3+ (Ln= La/Gd/Y) phosphors based on different phonon energies - 7158106.pdf
Creators: name: Wang, Xuejiao
name: tianzhi, jiang
name: Huang, Lishuo
name: Ye, Renguang
name: Wang, Juan
name: Hua, Youjie
name: Zhao, Jingtao
name: Bai, Gongxun
name: Zhao, Shilong
name: Zhang, Junjie
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2024
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1
Single- and two-mode quantumness at a beam splitter
Creators: name: Brunelli, Matteo
name: Benedetti, Claudia
name: Olivares, Stefano
name: Ferraro, Alessandro
name: Paris, Matteo G. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of bipartite bosonic systems, two notions of classicality of correlations can be defined: P-classicality, based on the properties of the Glauber-Sudarshan P-function; and C-classicality, based on the entropic quantum discord. It has been shown that these two notions are maximally inequivalent in a static (metric) sense -- as they coincide only on a set of states of zero measure. We extend and reinforce quantitatively this inequivalence by addressing the dynamical relation between these types of non-classicality in a paradigmatic quantum-optical setting: the linear mixing at a beam splitter of a single-mode Gaussian state with a thermal reference state. Specifically, we show that almost all P-classical input states generate outputs that are not C-classical. Indeed, for the case of zero thermal reference photons, the more P-classical resources at the input the less C-classicality at the output. In addition, we show that the P-classicality at the input -- as quantified by the non-classical depth -- does instead determine quantitatively the potential of generating output entanglement. This endows the non-classical depth with a new operational interpretation: it gives the maximum number of thermal reference photons that can be mixed at a beam splitter without destroying the output entanglement.
description: 13 pages, 10 figures
Libertà come co-creazione
Creators: name: Salizzoni, Roberto
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2012

description: At the peak of her reflection on freedom (“freedom is experienced in the process of acting and nothing else”), H. Arendt writes that freedom is initium (“to act is essentially to begin”) and that the beginnings nowadays possible are those that religion and poetry, through out modernity, have saved from political experiences left behind, without a home, without a place in the traditional political thought. Arendt delineates a perspective on freedom as retake, as public co-creation of the incomplete and marginal, to be carried out according to the aesthetical dynamics of “virtuosism” of the artists who play (“dancers, actors, musicians and the like”) more than to those of the artists who create. More than her rapsodical truly aesthetical observations, it’s Arendt’s interpretation of Dostoevskij’s The Possessed that can shed light on what she means by co-creation. S. Boym (with his reading of the notion of co-creation as a task of freedom for our future) and M. Cruz (with his imperative of a responsive and responsible exercise of memory) inevitably enter into dialogue with Arendt and with her idea of freedom as virtuosism of the co-creation.
description: Trópos, V. 5 N. 2 (2012): Intersoggettività e senso
Facial Thermal and Blood Perfusion Patterns of Human Emotions: Proof-of-Concept
Creators: name: Aristizabal-Tique, Victor H.
name: Henao-Perez, Marcela
name: Lopez-Medina, Diana Carolina
name: Zambrano-Cruz, Renato
name: Diaz-Londoñod, Gloria
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: I.4.7; I.4.10; I.5.1; I.5.4; J.4
subject: 68U10 (Primary), 92C55, 80A21, 78A70 (Secondary)

description: In this work, a preliminary study of proof-of-concept was conducted to evaluate the performance of the thermographic and blood perfusion data when emotions of positive and negative valence are applied, where the blood perfusion data are obtained from the thermographic data. The images were obtained for baseline, positive, and negative valence according to the protocol of the Geneva Affective Picture Database. Absolute and percentage differences of average values of the data between the valences and the baseline were calculated for different regions of interest (forehead, periorbital eyes, cheeks, nose and upper lips). For negative valence, a decrease in temperature and blood perfusion was observed in the regions of interest, and the effect was greater on the left side than on the right side. In positive valence, the temperature and blood perfusion increased in some cases, showing a complex pattern. The temperature and perfusion of the nose was reduced for both valences, which is indicative of the arousal dimension. The blood perfusion images were found to be greater contrast; the percentage differences in the blood perfusion images are greater than those obtained in thermographic images. Moreover, the blood perfusion images, and vasomotor answer are consistent, therefore, they can be a better biomarker than thermographic analysis in identifying emotions.
description: 22 pages, 9 figures
Musik und Emotionen musikalische Emotionsarbeit in der Psychomotorik
Creators: name: Gertsch, Sabine
name: Ulmann, Nadja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Psychomotorik
Psychomotoriktherapie
Gefühl
Musik
Bachelorarbeit

description: Die vorliegende Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit dem Thema Musik und Emotionen. Es wurden drei Musikstücke zu den Emotionen Trauer, Freude und Furcht erstellt, um diese Emotionen in der PMT wahrzunehmen, zu erleben und zu reflektieren. Mit einer on-going-Evaluation wurde sichergestellt, dass die entsprechenden Emotionen durch die Stücke ausgelöst werden. Durch eine Befragung von Experten in der Praxis wurde herausgefunden, dass die einzelnen Stücke in Bezug auf die Anwendung Unterschiede aufweisen. Das Stück zur Trauer würde genutzt werden, um Gefühle anzusprechen und hervorzurufen. Das Musikstück zur Freude würde zusätzlich für grobmotorische Tätigkeiten und als Einstieg bzw. Schluss der Stunde verwendet werden, das Stück zur Furcht hingegen nur unter Vorbehalt zum Ansprechen von Emotionen. Allgemein scheint Interesse da zu sein, Methoden der Musiktherapie in der PMT/Schule einzusetzen.
Michel Foucault
Creators: name: Ruffo, Matteo
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2012

description: The purpose of this essay is to show that the relationship between Power and Knowledge, as it is analysed by Michel Foucault, does not mean a refusal of the notion of Truth. In fact, Power should be intended not as a violent device of repression, but as a set of strategies that modify the being of subjects involved. In the famous example of Parrhesia, the subject of Truth has the Power both to criticize the tyrant and to intervene on his own being, because he accepts to deliver his-self to the risk of being-otherwise, even to die; in this way the Parrhesiastes realizes to be free. Thus, the practices of Power and Truth reveal to be, above all, practices of Freedom. This aspect of Foucault’s thought will be here compared with the Kantian premise on which it relies.
description: Trópos, V. 5 N. 2 (2012): Intersoggettività e senso
Additional file 1 of How important are parents in the development of child anxiety and depression? A genomic analysis of parent-offspring trios in the Norwegian Mother Father and Child Cohort Study (MoBa)
Creators: name: Cheesman, Rosa
name: Eilertsen, Espen Moen
name: Ahmadzadeh, Yasmin I.
name: Gjerde, Line C.
name: Hannigan, Laurie J.
name: Havdahl, Alexandra
name: Young, Alexander I.
name: Eley, Thalia C.
name: Njølstad, Pål R.
name: Magnus, Per
name: Andreassen, Ole A.
name: Ystrom, Eivind
name: McAdams, Tom A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1 : Table S1. MoBa genotyping and imputation information. Table S2. Full RDR results. Figure S1. Comparison of related concepts: passive gene-environment correlation, genetic nurture, and the shared environment. Figure S2. Simplified path diagram for RDR results. Figure S3. Simplified path diagram for pedigree results.
Behavior of early warnings near the critical temperature in the two-dimensional Ising model
Creators: name: Morales, Irving O.
name: Landa, Emmanuel
name: Angeles, Carlos Calderon
name: Toledo, Juan C.
name: Rivera, Ana Leonor
name: Mendoza-Temis, Joel
name: Frank, Alejandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Among the properties that are common to complex systems, the presence of critical thresholds in the dynamics of the system is one of the most important. Recently, there has been interest in the universalities that occur in the behavior of systems near critical points. These universal properties make it possible to estimate how far a system is from a critical threshold. Several early-warning signals have been reported in time series representing systems near catastrophic shifts. The proper understanding of these early-warnings may allow the prediction and perhaps control of these dramatic shifts in a wide variety of systems. In this paper we analyze this universal behavior for a system that is a paradigm of phase transitions, the Ising model. We study the behavior of the early-warning signals and the way the temporal correlations of the system increase when the system is near the critical point.
description: 20 pages, 8 figures, Submitted to PLOS ONE on Oct. 20th 2014. PONE-D-14-47184
Multivalent S2-based vaccines provide broad protection against SARS-CoV-2 variants of concern and pangolin coronaviruses
Creators: name: Hou, Y.J.
name: Maemura, T.
name: Baric, R.
name: Loeffler, K.
name: Kawaoka, Y.
name: Wright, E.R.
name: Kuroda, M.
name: Halfmann, P.J.
name: Armbrust, T.
name: Kane, R.S.
name: Yang, J.E.
name: Frey, S.J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Background: The COVID-19 pandemic continues to cause morbidity and mortality worldwide. Most approved COVID-19 vaccines generate a neutralizing antibody response that primarily targets the highly variable receptor-binding domain (RBD) of the SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) protein. SARS-CoV-2 “variants of concern” have acquired mutations in this domain allowing them to evade vaccine-induced humoral immunity. Recent approaches to improve the breadth of protection beyond SARS-CoV-2 have required the use of mixtures of RBD antigens from different sarbecoviruses. It may therefore be beneficial to develop a vaccine in which the protective immune response targets a more conserved region of the S protein. Methods: Here we have developed a vaccine based on the conserved S2 subunit of the S protein and optimized the adjuvant and immunization regimen in Syrian hamsters and BALB/c mice. We have characterized the efficacy of the vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 variants and other coronaviruses. Findings: Immunization with S2-based constructs elicited a broadly cross-reactive IgG antibody response that recognized the spike proteins of not only SARS-CoV-2 variants, but also SARS-CoV-1, and the four endemic human coronaviruses. Importantly, immunization reduced virus titers in respiratory tissues in vaccinated animals challenged with SARS-CoV-2 variants B.1.351 (beta), B.1.617.2 (delta), and BA.1 (omicron) as well as a pangolin coronavirus. Interpretation: These results suggest that S2-based constructs can elicit a broadly cross-reactive antibody response resulting in limited virus replication, thus providing a framework for designing vaccines that elicit broad protection against coronaviruses. Funding: NIH, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, Garry Betty/ V Foundation Chair Fund, and NSF.
Effect of Urban Built-Up Area Expansion on the Urban Heat Islands in Different Seasons in 34 Metropolitan Regions across China
Creators: name: Han, Wenchao
name: Tao, Zhuolin
name: Li, Zhangqing
name: Chengg, Miaomiao
name: Fan, Hao
name: Cribb, Maureen
name: Wang, Qi
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: urban built-up area expansion
urban heat island
seasonal difference
spatiotemporal variation
urban landscape patterns

description: The urban heat island (𝑈𝐻𝐼) refers to the land surface temperature (LST) difference between urban areas and their undeveloped or underdeveloped surroundings. It is a measure of the thermal influence of the urban built-up area expansion (𝑈𝐵𝐴𝐸), a topic that has been extensively studied. However, the impact of 𝑈𝐵𝐴𝐸 on the LST differences between urban areas and rural areas (𝑈𝐻𝐼𝑈−𝑅) and between urban areas and emerging urban areas (𝑈𝐻𝐼𝑈−𝑆) in different seasons has seldom been investigated. Here, the 𝑈𝐻𝐼𝑈−𝑆 and 𝑈𝐻𝐼𝑈−𝑅 in 34 major metropolitan regions across China, and their spatiotemporal variations based on long-term space-borne observations during the period 2001–2020 were analyzed. The 𝑈𝐵𝐴𝐸 quantified by the difference in landscape metrics of built-up areas between 2020 and 2000 and their impact on 𝑈𝐻𝐼 was further analyzed. The 𝑈𝐵𝐴𝐸 is impacted by the level of economic development and topography. The 𝑈𝐵𝐴𝐸 of cities located in more developed regions was more significant than that in less developed regions. Coastal cities experienced the most obvious 𝑈𝐵𝐴𝐸, followed by plain and hilly cities. The 𝑈𝐵𝐴𝐸 in mountainous regions was the weakest. On an annual basis, 𝑈𝐻𝐼𝑈−𝑅 was larger than 𝑈𝐻𝐼𝑈−𝑆, decreasing more slowly with 𝑈𝐵𝐴𝐸 than 𝑈𝐻𝐼𝑈−𝑆. In different seasons, the 𝑈𝐻𝐼𝑈−𝑆 and 𝑈𝐻𝐼𝑈−𝑅 were larger, more clearly varying temporally with 𝑈𝐵𝐴𝐸 in summer than in winter, and their temporal variations were significantly correlated with 𝑈𝐵𝐴𝐸 in summer but not in winter. The seasonal difference in 𝑈𝐻𝐼𝑈−𝑅 was larger than that of 𝑈𝐻𝐼𝑈−𝑆. Both the 𝑈𝐻𝐼𝑈−𝑆 and 𝑈𝐻𝐼𝑈−𝑅 in coastal cities were the lowest in summer, decreasing the fastest with 𝑈𝐵𝐴𝐸, while those in mountain cities decreased the slowest. The change in the density of built-up lands was the primary driver affecting the temporal variations in 𝑈𝐻𝐼𝑈−𝑆 and 𝑈𝐻𝐼𝑈−𝑅 during 𝑈𝐵𝐴𝐸, followed by changes in proportion and shape, while the impact of the speed of expansion was the smallest, all of which were more obvious in summer than in winter. The decreased density of built-up lands can reduce 𝑈𝐻𝐼. These findings provide a new perspective for a deeper understanding of the effect of urban expansion on LST in different seasons.
Schematizzare il tempo
Creators: name: Dell'Orto, Francesca
Publisher: name: Trópos
Year: 2012

description: This article examines the Husserlian notion of “motivation” by comparison with Kant’s doctrine of Schematism, so that its temporal frame, which is also, immediately, its intersubjective and worldly fold, could come to light. Such an insight will eventually lead to recast the dogmas of transcendental philosophy.We argue that motivations – as a third synthesis, dealing with imagination, in addition to primary memory (perception) and secondary memory (reproduction) – mediate and organize the flux of retentions and protentions by means of external supports, that Bernard Stiegler calls “tertiary retentions”. Their peculiarity lies in the fact that they do not belong to the ego’s lived experiences, since they rather set up a sort of transductive constitution between the subject and its intersubjective community, the intersubjective community and its cultural inherited milieu. Thus, motivations establish an order of non-deterministic and non-naturalistic sense-giving and sense-emerging.
description: Trópos, V. 5 N. 2 (2012): Intersoggettività e senso
Additional file 1 of Economic evaluation of carbetocin as prophylaxis for postpartum hemorrhage in the Philippines
Creators: name: Jamaica Roanne Briones
name: Pattarawalai Talungchit
name: Montarat Thavorncharoensap
name: Chaikledkaew, Usa
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Sample size for costing analysis. Table S2. Sample size for EQ-5D-5L survey Figure S1. Tornado diagram for parameters used in VD analysis. Figure S2. Cost-effectiveness plane of carbetocin compared with oxytocin for VD analysis. Figure S3. Cost-effectiveness acceptability curve for VD analysis. Table S3. Budget impact analysis results for cesarean section for 2020–2024 (in millions, USD). Table S4. Budget impact analysis results for vaginal delivery for 2020–2024 (in millions, USD).
A Multistate Study on Housing Factors Influential to Heat-Related Illness in the United States
Creators: name: Hu, Ming
name: Zhang, Kai
name: Nguyen, Quynh Camthi
name: Tasdizen, Tolga
name: Krusche, Krupali Uplekar
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: housing factors
heat-related illness
thermal inertia
multistate

description: As climate change increases the frequency and intensity of devastating and unpredictable extreme heat events, developments to the built environment should consider instigating practices that minimize the likelihood of indoor overheating during hot weather. Heatwaves are the leading cause of death among weather-related causes worldwide, including in developed and developing countries. In this empirical study, a four-step approach was used to collect, extract and analyze data from twenty-seven states in the United States. Three housing characteristic categories (i.e., general housing conditions, living conditions, and housing thermal inertia) and eight variables were extracted from the American Housing Survey database, ResStock database and CDC’s National Environmental Public Health Tracking Network. Multivariable regression models were used to understand the influential variables, a multicollinearity test was used to determine the dependence of those variables, and then a logistic model was used to verify the results. Three variables—housing age (HA), housing crowding ratio (HCR), and roof condition (RC)—were found to be correlated with the risk of heat-related illness (HRI) indexes. Then, a logistic regression model was generated using the three variables to predict the risk of heat-related emergency department visits (EDV) and heat-related mortality (MORD) on a state level. The results indicate that the proposed logistic regression model correctly predicted 100% of the high-risk states for MORD for the eight states tested. Overall, this analysis provides additional evidence about the housing character variables that influence HRI. The outcomes also reinforce the concept of the built environment determined health and demonstrate that the built environment, especially housing, should be considered in techniques for mitigating climate change-exacerbated health conditions.
Examination of the Public’s Reaction on Twitter to the Over-Turning of Roe v Wade and Abortion Bans
Creators: name: Mane, Heran
name: Yue, Xiaohe
name: Yu, Weijun
name: Doig, Amara Channell
name: Wei, Hanxue
name: Delcid, Nataly
name: Harris, Afia-Grace
name: Nguyen, Thu T.
name: Nguyen, Quynh C.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: Roe v Wade
abortion
women's rights
pro-choice
pro-life
family planning
sentiment analysis
network analysis

description: The overturning of Roe v Wade reinvigorated the national debate on abortion. We used Twitter data to examine temporal, geographical and sentiment patterns in the public’s reaction. Using the Twitter API for Academic Research, a random sample of publicly available tweets was collected from 1 May–15 July in 2021 and 2022. Tweets were filtered based on keywords relating to Roe v Wade and abortion (227,161 tweets in 2021 and 504,803 tweets in 2022). These tweets were tagged for sentiment, tracked by state, and indexed over time. Time plots reveal low levels of conversations on these topics until the leaked Supreme Court opinion in early May 2022. Unlike pro-choice tweets which declined, pro-life conversations continued with renewed interest throughout May and increased again following the official overturning of Roe v Wade. Conversations were less prevalent in some these states had abortion trigger laws (Wyoming, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi). Collapsing across topic categories, 2022 tweets were more negative and less neutral and positive compared to 2021 tweets. In network analysis, tweets mentioning woman/women, supreme court, and abortion spread faster and reached to more Twitter users than those mentioning Roe Wade and Scotus. Twitter data can provide real-time insights into the experiences and perceptions of people across the United States, which can be used to inform healthcare policies and decision-making.
FInC Flow: Fast and Invertible $k \times k$ Convolutions for Normalizing Flows
Creators: name: Kallappa, Aditya
name: Nagar, Sandeep
name: Varma, Girish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Invertible convolutions have been an essential element for building expressive normalizing flow-based generative models since their introduction in Glow. Several attempts have been made to design invertible $k \times k$ convolutions that are efficient in training and sampling passes. Though these attempts have improved the expressivity and sampling efficiency, they severely lagged behind Glow which used only $1 \times 1$ convolutions in terms of sampling time. Also, many of the approaches mask a large number of parameters of the underlying convolution, resulting in lower expressivity on a fixed run-time budget. We propose a $k \times k$ convolutional layer and Deep Normalizing Flow architecture which i.) has a fast parallel inversion algorithm with running time O$(n k^2)$ ($n$ is height and width of the input image and k is kernel size), ii.) masks the minimal amount of learnable parameters in a layer. iii.) gives better forward pass and sampling times comparable to other $k \times k$ convolution-based models on real-world benchmarks. We provide an implementation of the proposed parallel algorithm for sampling using our invertible convolutions on GPUs. Benchmarks on CIFAR-10, ImageNet, and CelebA datasets show comparable performance to previous works regarding bits per dimension while significantly improving the sampling time.
description: accepted: VISAPP'23
Function spaces for liquid crystals
Creators: name: Bedford, S. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider the relationship between three continuum liquid crystal theories: Oseen-Frank, Ericksen and Landau-de Gennes. It is known that the function space is an important part of the mathematical model and by considering various function space choices for the order parameters $s$, ${\bf n}$, and ${\bf Q}$, we establish connections between the variational formulations of these theories. We use these results to derive a version of the Oseen-Frank theory using special functions of bounded variation. This proposed model can describe both orientable and non-orientable defects. Finally we study a number of frustrated nematic and cholesteric liquid crystal systems and show that the model predicts the existence of point and surface discontinuities in the director.
Additional file 1 of Randomised feasibility trial and embedded qualitative process evaluation of a new intervention to facilitate the involvement of older patients with multimorbidity in decision-making about their healthcare during general practice consultations: the VOLITION study protocol
Creators: name: Butterworth, Joanne
name: Richards, Suzanne
name: Warren, Fiona
name: Pitchforth, Emma
name: Campbell, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1: Appendix 1. Data management plan and data privacy impact assessment.
Novel 3′ Proximal Replication Elements in Umbravirus Genomes
Creators: name: Johnson, Philip Z.
name: Reuning, Hannah M.
name: Bera, Sayanta
name: Gao, Feng
name: Du, Zhiyou
name: Simon, Anne E.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2022
Subjects: umbravirus
pea enation mosaic virus 2
positive-strand RNA virus replication and translation
RNA structure/function

description: The 3′ untranslated regions (UTRs) of positive-strand RNA plant viruses commonly contain elements that promote viral replication and translation. The ~700 nt 3′UTR of umbravirus pea enation mosaic virus 2 (PEMV2) contains three 3′ cap-independent translation enhancers (3′CITEs), including one (PTE) found in members of several genera in the family Tombusviridae and another (the 3′TSS) found in numerous umbraviruses and several carmoviruses. In addition, three 3′ terminal replication elements are found in nearly every umbravirus and carmovirus. For this report, we have identified a set of three hairpins and a putative pseudoknot, collectively termed “Trio”, that are exclusively found in a subset of umbraviruses and are located just upstream of the 3′TSS. Modification of these elements had no impact on viral translation in wheat germ extracts or in translation of luciferase reporter constructs in vivo. In contrast, Trio hairpins were critical for viral RNA accumulation in Arabidopsis thaliana protoplasts and for replication of a non-autonomously replicating replicon using a trans-replication system in Nicotiana benthamiana leaves. Trio and other 3′ terminal elements involved in viral replication are highly conserved in umbraviruses possessing different classes of upstream 3′CITEs, suggesting conservation of replication mechanisms among umbraviruses despite variation in mechanisms for translation enhancement.
Sustainability of a well-established hand hygiene program during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic
Creators: name: Stancill, L.B.
name: DiBiase, L.M.
name: Sickbert-Bennett, E.E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Overall, engagement and compliance from the crowd-sourced hand hygiene observation program, Clean-In-Clean-Out (CICO), were similar between 2019 (96.6%) and 2020 (96.7%) despite fluctuations within 2020 that reflected our hospital's coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) experience. Shared responsibility and just-in-time reminders can allow manual hand hygiene observation models to be sustainable.