cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A functionally significant SNP in TP53 and breast cancer risk in African-American women
Creators: name: Ingles, S.A.
name: Liu, Q.
name: Dolfi, S.C.
name: Hirshfield, K.M.
name: Hong, C.-C.
name: Press, M.F.
name: Deming, S.L.
name: John, E.M.
name: Palmer, J.R.
name: Olshan, A.F.
name: Nathanson, K.L.
name: Bernstein, L.
name: Ogundiran, T.O.
name: Adebamowo, C.
name: Domchek, S.M.
name: Zheng, W.
name: Hu, J.J.
name: Yao, S.
name: Lunetta, K.L.
name: Haiman, C.A.
name: Feng, Y.
name: Nemesure, B.
name: Ambs, S.
name: Hu, Q.
name: Murphy, M.E.
name: Liu, S.
name: Olopade, O.I.
name: Rodriguez-Gil, J.L.
name: Ziegler, R.G.
name: Nyante, S.
name: Ambrosone, C.B.
name: Blot, W.J.
name: Huo, D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: A coding region polymorphism exists in the TP53 gene (Pro47Ser; rs1800371) in individuals of African descent, which reduces p53 tumor suppressor function in a mouse model. It has been unclear whether this functionally significant polymorphism alters cancer risk in humans. This analysis included 6907 women with breast cancer and 7644 controls from the AMBER, ROOT, and AABC consortia. We used multivariable logistic regression to estimate associations between the TP53 Pro47Ser allele and overall breast cancer risk. Because polymorphisms in TP53 tend to be associated with cancer risk in pre-menopausal women, we also limited our analyses to this population in the AMBER and ROOT consortia, where menopausal status was known, and conducted a fixed effects meta-analysis. In an analysis of all women in the AMBER, ROOT, and AABC consortia, we found no evidence for association of the Pro47Ser variant with breast cancer risk. However, when we restricted our analysis to only pre-menopausal women from the AMBER and ROOT consortia, there was a per allele odds ratio of 1.72 (95% confidence interval 1.08-2.76; p-value = 0.023). Although the Pro47Ser variant was not associated with overall breast cancer risk, it may increase risk among pre-menopausal women of African ancestry. Following up on more studies in human populations may better elucidate the role of this variant in breast cancer etiology. However, because of the low frequency of the polymorphism in women of African ancestry, its impact at a population level may be minimal.
Spin gauge theory, duality and fermion pairing
Creators: name: Mukherjee, Shantonu
name: Lahiri, Amitabha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply duality transformation to the Abelian Higgs model in 3+1 dimensions in the presence of electrons coupled to the gauge field. The Higgs field is in the symmetry broken phase, where flux strings can form. Dualization brings in an antisymmetric tensor potential $B_{μν}\,$, which couples to the electrons through a nonlocal interaction which can be interpreted as a coupling to the spin current. It also couples to the string worldsheet and gives rise to a string Higgs mechanism via the condensation of flux strings. In the phase where the $B_{μν}$ field is massless, the nonlocal interaction implies a linearly rising attractive force between the electrons, which can be interpreted as the result of a pair of strings joining the electrons.
description: Contents identical with version accepted for publication in JHEP
Additional file 2 of Comparing options for females seeking permanent contraception in high resource countries: a systematic review
Creators: name: Gormley, Rebecca
name: Vickers, Brian
name: Cheng, Brooke
name: Norman, Wendy V.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 2: Risk of Bias by study design
Poor oral health affects survival in head and neck cancer
Creators: name: Weissler, M.C.
name: Divaris, K.
name: Farquhar, D.R.
name: Zevallos, J.P.
name: Mazul, A.L.
name: Olshan, A.F.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Ltd
Year: 2017

description: Introduction Poor oral health has emerged as a risk factor for squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck (HNSCC) but its impact on survival has not been examined. We sought to estimate the impact of oral health indicators on survival in a population-based HNSCC cohort. Materials and methods Cases (n = 1381) and age-, sex- and race-matched controls (n = 1396) were participants in the Carolina Head and Neck Cancer Epidemiologic Study (CHANCE). Vital status was determined via linkage with the National Death Index. Survival was considered at 5 years post-diagnosis or study-enrollment for controls. Oral health was assessed using self-reported indicators including frequency of routine dental exams and tooth brushing. We used Kaplan-Meyer analyses and Cox regression to estimate adjusted hazard ratios (HR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI). Results Routine dental visits during the preceding 10 years were associated with decreased mortality risk (>10 visits: HR = 0.6, 95% CI = 0.4–0.8) after adjusting for confounders. This effect was most pronounced for oral cavity cancer—(e.g., >10 visits: HR = 0.4, 95% CI = 0.2–0.9). Dental visits were also positively associated with survival among controls. No other routine health screening (e.g., eye exams) was associated with survival. Conclusion We found significant associations between markers of oral health and survival among both HNSCC cases and controls. This association was most pronounced for sites closer to the dentition. Oral health may have a direct effect on tumor biology due to the associated immune or inflammatory response. It may also represent a proxy for wellness or unmeasured social determinants of health.
title: ADCO, Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0438
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0438, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Neuvième cartulaire de Saint-Étienne de Dijon (1661 - 1684), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 32 (G 136), 745 folios, f. 0438, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye Saint-Étienne de Dijon
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15945019
Additional file 1 of The stakeholders’ perceptions of the requirements of implementing innovative educational approaches in nursing: a qualitative content analysis study
Creators: name: Nasrabadi, Alireza Nikbakht
name: Mohammadi, Nooredin
name: Rooddehghan, Zahra
name: Shabani, Enayat A.
name: Bakhshi, Fatemeh
name: Ghorbani, Azam
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. Interview guide.
PLATYPUS: a code for fusion and breakup in reactions induced by weakly-bound nuclei within a classical trajectory model with stochastic breakup
Creators: name: Diaz-Torres, Alexis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A self-contained Fortran-90 program based on a classical trajectory model with stochastic breakup is presented, which should be a powerful tool for quantifying complete and incomplete fusion, and breakup in reactions induced by weakly-bound two-body projectiles near the Coulomb barrier. The code calculates complete and incomplete fusion cross sections and their angular momentum distribution, as well as breakup observables (angle, kinetic energy and relative energy distributions).
description: Accepted in Computer Physics Communications (2011)
Examining health-related quality of life patterns in women with breast cancer
Creators: name: Wheeler, S.B.
name: Reeder-Hayes, K.E.
name: Samuel, C.A.
name: Pinheiro, L.C.
name: Reeve, B.B.
name: Tan, X.
name: Olshan, A.F.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Purpose: We aimed to identify subgroups of women with breast cancer who experience different health-related quality of life (HRQOL) patterns during active treatment and survivorship and determine characteristics associated with subgroup membership. Methods: We used data from the third phase of the population-based Carolina Breast Cancer Study and included 2142 women diagnosed with breast cancer from 2008 to 2013. HRQOL was measured, on average, 5 and 25 months post diagnosis. Latent profile analysis was used to identify HRQOL latent profiles (LPs) at each time point. Latent transition analysis was used to determine probabilities of women transitioning profiles from 5 to 25 months. Multinomial logit models estimated adjusted odds ratios (aORs) and 95% confidence intervals for associations between patient characteristics and LP membership at each time point. Results: We identified four HRQOL LPs at 5 and 25 months. LP1 had the poorest HRQOL and LP4 the best. Membership in the poorest profile at 5 months was associated with younger age aOR 0.95; 0.93–0.96, White race aOR 1.48; 1.25–1.65, being unmarried aOR 1.50; 1.28–1.65 and having public aOR 3.09; 1.96–4.83 or no insurance aOR 6.51; 2.12–20.10. At 25 months, Black race aOR 1.75; 1.18–1.82 was associated with the poorest profile membership. Black race and smoking were predictors of deteriorating to a worse profile from 5 to 25 months. Conclusions: Our results suggest patient-level characteristics including age at diagnosis and race may identify women at risk for experiencing poor HRQOL patterns. If women are identified and offered targeted HRQOL support, we may see improvements in long-term HRQOL and better breast cancer outcomes.
Modeling Spatiotemporal Factors Associated With Sentiment on Twitter: Synthesis and Suggestions for Improving the Identification of Localized Deviations
Creators: name: Shah, Zubair
name: Martin, Paige
name: Coiera, Enrico
name: Mandl, Kenneth D.
name: Dunn, Adam G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Background: Studies examining how sentiment on social media varies depending on timing and location appear to produce inconsistent results, making it hard to design systems that use sentiment to detect localized events for public health applications. Objective: The aim of this study was to measure how common timing and location confounders explain variation in sentiment on Twitter. Methods: Using a dataset of 16.54 million English-language tweets from 100 cities posted between July 13 and November 30, 2017, we estimated the positive and negative sentiment for each of the cities using a dictionary-based sentiment analysis and constructed models to explain the differences in sentiment using time of day, day of week, weather, city, and interaction type (conversations or broadcasting) as factors and found that all factors were independently associated with sentiment. Results: In the full multivariable model of positive (Pearson r in test data 0.236; 95\% CI 0.231-0.241) and negative (Pearson r in test data 0.306; 95\% CI 0.301-0.310) sentiment, the city and time of day explained more of the variance than weather and day of week. Models that account for these confounders produce a different distribution and ranking of important events compared with models that do not account for these confounders. Conclusions: In public health applications that aim to detect localized events by aggregating sentiment across populations of Twitter users, it is worthwhile accounting for baseline differences before looking for unexpected changes.
description: 18 pages, 7 figures, published in JMIR (doi:10.2196/12881)
Folksonomies and clustering in the collaborative system CiteULike
Creators: name: Capocci, Andrea
name: Caldarelli, Guido
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze CiteULike, an online collaborative tagging system where users bookmark and annotate scientific papers. Such a system can be naturally represented as a tripartite graph whose nodes represent papers, users and tags connected by individual tag assignments. The semantics of tags is studied here, in order to uncover the hidden relationships between tags. We find that the clustering coefficient reflects the semantical patterns among tags, providing useful ideas for the designing of more efficient methods of data classification and spam detection.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, iop style; corrected typos
Dreaming in Isolation: Magical Realism in Modern Japanese Literature
Creators: name: Mayer, Ida
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: 200508 Other Literatures in English
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Introduction
I. Introduction Isolation
II. Emotionally isolated characters
 III. Barriers between the public and private
IV. Mythic proportions
V. Escape through magic Dreaming
VI. A social unconscious and the metaphorical use of space
VII. ‘Living spirits’ in Japan’s literary traditions
VIII. Impact on the waking world
IX. Unprovable power Connections
X. Fiction and society
XI. Magic and the mundane
XII. Theme and genre
XIII. Between two people
XIV. Dreams and healing Conclusion
XV. Conclusion Appendices
A. Why these authors were chosen
B. Reading in Translation
C. International nature of the works Bibliography
title: School leaders’ self-efficacy and its impact on innovation: Findings of a repeated measurement study
Creators: name: Röhl, Sebastian
name: Pietsch, Marcus
name: Cramer, Colin
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications
Year: 2024

description: In many studies, school leaders’ self-efficacy has been shown to be relevant for the successful development of schools, as well as indirectly for student learning. The current study examines the extent to which leaders’ self-efficacy prior to the COVID-19 crisis affected their schools’ innovative coping during the first pandemic-related school closure in 2020. To explore this, we used quantitative data from a repeated measurement survey of a representative sample of 493 school leaders in Germany, here with two measurement time points before and during the school closure phase. The results of structural equation analyses indicate that school leaders’ self-efficacy had a significant impact on both the width and depth of the innovations introduced at schools during the crisis. Other control variables, such as school leaders’ leadership experience or school size, showed no significant effects. This emphasises the importance of school leaders’ self-efficacy experiences for crisis management and leadership. Implications for school leadership training and support, as well as for further research, are discussed.
description: Educational Management Administration & Leadership, vol. 52, no. 6, p. 1477
The relationship between black hole mass and galaxy properties: clues to the physics behind quiescence
Creators: name: Terrazas, Bryan A
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: galaxies

description: Evidence from across the electromagnetic spectrum supports the theory that black hole (BH) feedback causes quiescence in massive galaxies. However, the form of this feedback and how it operates remains uncertain. I will describe results from a sample of 91 galaxies with dynamical BH masses and show that the BH-stellar mass relation has significant scatter which correlates strongly with star formation activity. In fact, for this diverse sample ranging from massive ellipticals to isolated spirals, the specific star formation rate is a smoothly decreasing function of the BH-stellar mass ratio. These results present a powerful diagnostic with which to test BH feedback's effects on star formation in the latest galaxy formation models. I will show how the relationship between BH mass, stellar mass, and star formation rate encodes information on the physics of quiescence in simulations such as IllustrisTNG, EAGLE, and L-Galaxies, thereby allowing a novel interpretation of the observations.
title: ADCO, Deuxième cartulaire ou Grand cartulaire de l'abbaye de Molesme, Cart. 143 (7 H 7), 153 fol, f. 0041v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2009
name: Petot, Frédéric
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris

description: Deuxième cartulaire ou Grand cartulaire de l'abbaye de Molesme, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 143 (7 H 7), 153 fol, f. 0041v, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Deuxième cartulaire ou Grand cartulaire de l'abbaye de Molesme, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 143 (7 H 7), 153 fol, f. 0041v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: abbaye de Molesme
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q334044
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb137389344
Does it Work? The Need for and Potentials of Randomized Evaluations in Microfinance
Creators: name: Coco, Francesco Ariel
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2010
Subjects: History

description: During the last thirty years, microfinance has spread all over the globe from its roots in Bangladesh. However, as this paper will show, this expansion has not been high quality research demonstrating its effectiveness in improving the lives of the poor. In addition to showing the statistical shortcomings of the research that has been done on the subject, I will show how and why randomized evaluations can fill that gap. Several factors that have historically been considered unrealistic, including financial sustainability for most microfinance institutions and the feasibility of performing randomized evaluations on small scales, have recently become a reality. This has opened the doors for three specific opportunities within microfinance. Firstly, organizations can now improve their understanding of whether microfinance improves the lives of the poor using statistically compelling methods. Second, it gives microfinance institutions the opportunity to provide a better financial product for clients via randomized evaluations. Lastly, as I will argue, it puts microfinance in the position to use loan manipulation and group meetings to improve the lives of the global poor in a more meaningful way.
KaRMMa -- Kappa Reconstruction for Mass Mapping
Creators: name: Fiedorowicz, Pier
name: Rozo, Eduardo
name: Boruah, Supranta S.
name: Chang, Chihway
name: Gatti, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present KaRMMa, a novel method for performing mass map reconstruction from weak-lensing surveys. We employ a fully Bayesian approach with a physically motivated lognormal prior to sample from the posterior distribution of convergence maps. We test KaRMMa on a suite of dark matter N-body simulations with simulated DES Y1-like shear observations. We show that KaRMMa outperforms the basic Kaiser-Squires mass map reconstruction in two key ways: 1) our best map point estimate has lower residuals compared to Kaiser-Squires; and 2) unlike the Kaiser-Squires reconstruction, the posterior distribution of KaRMMa maps are nearly unbiased in all summary statistics we considered, namely: one-point and two-point functions, and peak/void counts. In particular, KaRMMa successfully captures the non-Gaussian nature of the distribution of $κ$ values in the simulated maps. We further demonstrate that the KaRMMa posteriors correctly characterize the uncertainty in all summary statistics we considered.
description: 13 pages, 11 figures
Dynamic correlations in the highly dilute 2D electron liquid: loss function, critical wave vector and analytic plasmon dispersion
Creators: name: Drachta, Jürgen T.
name: Kreil, Dominik
name: Hobbiger, Raphael
name: Böhm, Helga M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Correlations, highly important in low--dimensional systems, are known to decrease the plasmon dispersion of two-dimensional electron liquids. Here we calculate the plasmon properties, applying the 'Dynamic Many-Body Theory', accounting for correlated two-particle--two-hole fluctuations. These dynamic correlations are found to significantly lower the plasmon's energy. For the data obtained numerically, we provide an analytic expression that is valid across a wide range both of densities and of wave vectors. Finally, we demonstrate how this can be invoked in determining the actual electron densities from measurements on an AlGaAs quantum well.
description: 12 pages
Approximation and limit theorems for quantum stochastic models with unbounded coefficients
Creators: name: Bouten, Luc
name: van Handel, Ramon
name: Silberfarb, Andrew
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove a limit theorem for quantum stochastic differential equations with unbounded coefficients which extends the Trotter-Kato theorem for contraction semigroups. From this theorem, general results on the convergence of approximations and singular perturbations are obtained. The results are illustrated in several examples of physical interest.
description: 23 pages
Leptonic D_s decays in two-flavour lattice QCD
Creators: name: Blossier, Benoit
name: Heitger, Jochen
name: Post, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on a two-flavour lattice QCD study of the D_s and D_s^* leptonic decays parameterized by the decay constants f_{D_s} and f_{D_s^*}. As the phenomenology in the D_s sector seems very promising in the next years with the experiments LHCb and Belle II, it is worth putting a big effort in lattice computations regarding its non-perturbative QCD contributions. Before examining more challenging processes such as hadron-hadron transitions, a natural first step is to address some basic aspects in the context of leptonic decays, where systematic uncertainties from excited state contaminations and cut-off effects in the computation of charmed meson decay matrix elements can be investigated in a more straightforward setting.
description: 11 pages including figures and tables, latex2e; version published in Phys. Rev. D; expanded discussion of systematics, small additions to the text and references added; results unchanged
title: ADCO, Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VIII, Cart. 192 (11 H 77), 295 folios, f. 0171v
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge
subject: LaMOP

description: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VIII, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 192 (11 H 77), 295 folios, f. 0171v, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire général de Cîteaux, dit de Jean de Cirey, (XVe siècle), tome VIII, Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 192 (11 H 77), 295 folios, f. 0171v, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Paternal and joint parental occupational pesticide exposure and spina bifida in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study, 1997 to 2002
Creators: name: Michalski, A.M.
name: Lupo, P.J.
name: Olshan, A.F.
name: Van Zutphen, A.R.
name: Romitti, P.A.
name: Makelarski, J.A.
name: Rocheleau, C.M.
name: Bell, E.M.
name: National Birth Defects Prevention Study
name: Pettigrew, S.M.
name: Sanderson, W.
name: Shaw, G.M.
name: Soim, A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Background: Because of persistent concerns over the association between pesticides and spina bifida, we examined the role of paternal and combined parental occupational pesticide exposures in spina bifida in offspring using data from a large population-based study of birth defects. Methods: Occupational information from fathers of 291 spina bifida cases and 2745 unaffected live born control infants with estimated dates of delivery from 1997 to 2002 were collected by means of maternal report. Two expert industrial hygienists estimated exposure intensity and frequency to insecticides, herbicides, and fungicides. Multivariable logistic regression models were used to estimate adjusted odds ratios (aOR) and 95% confidence intervals (CI) for exposure to any pesticide and to any class of pesticide (yes/no; and by median), and exposure to combinations of pesticides (yes/no) and risk of spina bifida. Adjusted odds ratios were also estimated by parent exposed to pesticides (neither, mother only, father only, both parents). RESULTS: Joint parental occupational pesticide exposure was positively associated with spina bifida (aOR, 1.5; 95% CI, 0.9–2.4) when compared with infants with neither maternal nor paternal exposures; a similar association was not observed when only one parent was exposed. There was a suggested positive association between combined paternal insecticide and fungicide exposures and spina bifida (aOR, 1.5; 95% CI, 0.8–2.8), however, nearly all other aORs were close to unity. Conclusion: Overall, there was little evidence paternal occupational pesticide exposure was associated with spina bifida. However, the small numbers make it difficult to precisely evaluate the role of pesticide classes, individually and in combination. Birth Defects Research (Part A) 106:963–971, 2016.
Disunited States and Other Stories
Creators: name: Cypher, Sarah
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2002
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The Clay O'Hara Band 3
Daid's 12
A Slow Green Train Home 19
Eli's Toyshop 43
Stranger at the Gates 55
Wings for a Lonely Woman .69
Heritage 98
The Jamboree People 112
Disunited States 122
Stone-Kicker 143
Lepton Flavor Non-Conservation
Creators: name: Kosmas, T. S.
name: Leontaris, G. K.
name: Vergados, J. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the present work we review the most prominent lepton flavor violating processes ($μ\ra eγ$, $μ\ra 3e$, $(μ, e)$ conversion, $M-\bar M$ oscillations etc), in the context of unified gauge theories. Many currently fashionable extensions of the standard model are considered, such as: {\it i)} extensions of the fermion sector (right-handed neutrino); {\it ii)} minimal extensions involving additional Higgs scalars (more than one isodoublets, singly and doubly charged isosinglets, isotriplets with doubly charged members etc.); {\it iii)} supersymmetric or superstring inspired unified models emphasizing the implications of the renormalization group equations in the leptonic sector. Special attention is given to the experimentaly most interesting $(μ- e)$ conversion in the presence of nuclei. The relevant nuclear aspects of the amplitudes are discussed in a number of fashionable nuclear models. The main features of the relevant experiments are also discussed, and detailed predictions of the above models are compared to the present experimental limits.
description: (IOA-300/93, review article, 83p, 6 epsf figures , available upon request from gleonta@cc.uoi.gr) %
Additional file 1 of Sex differences in soluble prorenin receptor in patients with type 2 diabetes
Creators: name: Visniauskas, Bruna
name: Arita, Danielle Y.
name: Rosales, Carla B.
name: Feroz, Mohammed A.
name: Luffman, Christina
name: Accavitti, Michael J.
name: Dawkins, Gabrielle
name: Hong, Jennifer
name: Curnow, Andrew C.
name: Thethi, Tina K.
name: Lefante, John J.
name: Jaimes, Edgar A.
name: Mauvais-Jarvis, Franck
name: Fonseca, Vivian A.
name: Prieto, Minolfa C.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Figure S1. Renin activity in urine by moderate loss of kidney function, hypertension (HTN) and albumin/creatinine (ACR: urine albumin to creatinine ratio). Data are expressed as mean ± Standard error of the mean (SEM). *P = 0.001 different from control group, † P<0.001 different from group 2 (type 2 diabetes and HTN), ‡ different from group 3 (type 2 diabetes, HTN and ACR). Supplementary Figure S2. (A) Correlation between soluble prorenin receptor (sPRR) levels and urinary angiotensinogen (uAGT) excretion (r = 0.05; P = 0.42). Data are expressed as mean ± SEM. Comparisons of uAGT between low (≤16 ng/mL) and high (≥19 ng/mL) levels of sPRR in patients with diabetes (B) and by gender (C). (C) *P < 0.02. (D) Men P = 0.03 and Women P = 0.73.
Topological entropies of equivalent smooth flows
Creators: name: Sun, Wenxiang
name: Young, Todd
name: Zhou, Yunhua
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 37C15, 34C28, 37A10

description: Two flows defined on a smooth manifold are equivalent if there exists a homeomorphism of the manifold that sends each orbit of one flow onto an orbit of the other flow while preserving the time orientation. The topological entropy of a flow is defined as the entropy of its time-1 map. While topological entropy is an invariant for equivalent homeomorphisms, finite non-zero topological entropy for a flow cannot be an invariant because its value is affected by time reparameterization. However, 0 and $\infty$ topological entropy are invariants for equivalent flows without fixed points. In equivalent flows with fixed points there exists a counterexample, constructed by Ohno, showing that neither 0 nor $\infty$ topological entropy is preserved by equivalence. The two flows constructed by Ohno are suspensions of a transitive subshift and thus are not differentiable. Note that a differentiable flow on a compact manifold cannot have $\infty$ entropy. These facts led Ohno in 1980 to ask the following: "Is 0 topological entropy an invariant for equivalent differentiable flows?" In this paper, we construct two equivalent $C^\infty$ smooth flows with a singularity, one of which has positive topological entropy while the other has zero topological entropy. This gives a negative answer to Ohno's question in the class $C^\infty$.
Postmenopausal female hormone use and estrogen receptor-positive and -negative breast cancer in african American women
Creators: name: Haiman, C.A.
name: Bandera, E.V.
name: Viscidi, E.
name: Bethea, T.N.
name: Palmer, J.R.
name: Ambrosone, C.B.
name: Rosenberg, L.
name: Olshan, A.F.
name: Kolonel, L.N.
name: Troester, M.A.
name: Hong, C.-C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Background: Use of estrogen with progestin (combination therapy) is associated with increased incidence of estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer in observational studies and randomized trials among postmenopausal white women. Whether this is also the case among African American women is not established. Methods: Using data from the AMBER consortium collected from 1993 to 2013, we assessed use of estrogen alone and of combination therapy in relation to ER+ and ER-negative (ER-) breast cancer risk in postmenopausal African American women, based on 1132 ER+ case patients, 512 ER- case patients, and 6693 control patients. Odds ratios (ORs) and confidence intervals (CIs) were estimated using multinomial logistic regression with control for breast cancer risk factors. Results: Forty-seven percent of control patients had used estrogen alone, combination therapy, or both. The odds ratio for ER+ breast cancer associated with combination use, relative to never use of either estrogen alone or combination therapy, was 1.50 (95% CI = 1.25 to 1.79). The increase was greater for recent (OR = 1.55, 95% CI = 1.21 to 1.99) and long-term use (OR = 1.75, 95% CI = 1.13 to 2.73) and among nonobese women (OR = 1.91, 95% CI = 1.29 to 2.83). Breast cancer risk was increased regardless of the interval between onset of menopause and initiation of combination use (OR = 1.43, 95% CI = 1.11 to 1.85, for <5 year interval; OR = 1.78, 95% CI = 1.34 to 2.37, for ≥5 year interval). Combination use was not associated with risk of ER- breast cancer, and use of estrogen alone was not associated with risk of either ER+ or ER- breast cancer. Conclusion: Use of estrogen with progestin increases risk of ER+ breast cancer in African American women. A decrease in use would be expected to reduce the number of ER+ cancers.
Additional file 1 of Antibodies against citrullinated proteins in relation to periodontitis with or without rheumatoid arthritis: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Lew, Pit Hui
name: Rahman, Mohammad Tariqur
name: Safii, Syarida Hasnur
name: Baharuddin, Nor Adinar
name: Bartold, Peter Mark
name: Sockalingam, Sargunan
name: Kassim, Noor Lide Abu
name: Vaithilingam, Rathna Devi
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Hematology

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Multiple linear regression analysis models for ACPA, ESR and disease duration controlling for age, gender, ethnicity, and smoking status in the RAPd and RA groups. These confounding factors did not contribute significantly to the model. RAPd: Subjects with RA and Pd; RA: Subjects with RA but without Pd; ACPA: anticitrullinated protein antibodies; ESR: Erythrocyte sedimentation rate; Multiple linear regression analysis, **significant at p
Distractor-Period Unconscious Cognitive Processing in Associative Learning
Creators: name: Bursley, James K.
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Past research has demonstrated unconscious cognitive processing of information relevant to complex decision making during an unrelated distractor task. Our recent work has identified a novel neural mechanism supporting this processing that involves reactivation of neural regions involved in encoding the decision information. Extending these findings to a new domain, the current research aims to investigate the role of distractor-period unconscious cognitive processing in associative learning. We adapted two learning tasks that have been shown to differentially recruit hippocampal-cortical and hippocampus-independent neural networks for use in a behavioral laboratory experiment. The initial encoding periods of the learning tasks were followed by an unrelated vocabulary-based distractor task that occupied conscious working memory resources, forcing any processing relevant to the learning task to proceed outside of conscious awareness. We demonstrate that performance of the distractor task leads to performance benefits on the hippocampus-independent associative learning task, suggesting a more general role for unconscious cognitive processing than one restricted to decision making.
High-resolution temporal constraints on the dynamics of dark energy
Creators: name: Zhao, Gong-Bo
name: Huterer, Dragan
name: Zhang, Xinmin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use the recent type Ia supernova, cosmic microwave background and large-scale structure data to shed light on the temporal evolution of the dark energy equation of state $w(z)$ out to redshift one. We constrain the most flexible parametrization of dark energy to date, and include the dark energy perturbations consistently throughout. Interpreting our results via the principal component analysis, we find no significant evidence for dynamical dark energy: the cosmological constant model is consistent with data everywhere between redshift zero and one at 95% C.L.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures Version for PRD (Rapid Communications)
Supersymmetry Relations Between Contributions To One-Loop Gauge Boson Amplitudes
Creators: name: Bern, Z.
name: Morgan, A. G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply ideas motivated by string theory to improve the calculational efficiency of one-loop weak interaction processes with massive external gauge bosons. In certain cases ``supersymmetry'' relations between diagrams with a fermion loop and with a gauge boson loop hold. This is explicitly illustrated for a particular one-loop standard model process with four-external gauge bosons. The supersymmetry relations can be used to provide further significant improvements in calculational efficiency.
description: 21 pages of plain TeX + 5 PostScript figures (compressed and uuencoded), UCLA/93/TEP/36 and DTP/93/80
Distractor Task Manipulation in Offline Associative Learning
Creators: name: Halley K. Bayer
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: 170199 Psychology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Offline processing is regarded as the continued thought of information that occurs without explicit attention and outside of one’s conscious awareness, and it has been shown to be particularly advantageous in comparison to conscious thought and immediate testing in the realm of decision making. There is evidence for an underlying learning mechanism supported by offline processing, and recent work demonstrates advantages of offline processing in associative learning tasks. This study aims to address whether offline processing can be utilized as a practical technique in a real world learning task, and to investigate what specific types of distractor tasks best facilitate offline processing and learning. Participants encoded new real world information and were later tested on the material in either an immediate, same domain distractor, or different domain distractor condition in an online survey. Initial results indicate no advantage or disadvantage for either type of offline processing in comparison to immediate subsequent testing of newly encoded information. It is possible that this study presents evidence contrary to offline processing being a beneficial tool in real world learning, however, as such a newly investigated topic, this study more likely provides useful information as to what may or may not work in order to utilize offline processing in real world learning contexts.
Factors that impact health-related quality of life over time for individuals with head and neck cancer
Creators: name: Wisniewski, K.
name: Zhang, H.
name: Olshan, A.F.
name: Weissler, M.C.
name: Cai, J.
name: Reeve, B.B.
name: Gross, H.
Publisher: name: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Year: 2016

description: Objectives/Hypothesis: To identify sociodemographic, behavioral, and clinical factors associated with health-related quality of life (HRQOL) for head and neck cancer (HNC) patients over time. Study Design: A population-based longitudinal cohort study. Methods: Newly diagnosed HNC patients (N = 587) were administered the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy–Head and Neck questionnaire at baseline (median 3 months postdiagnosis) and two follow-up assessments (median 22 and 42 months). Linear mixed-effect models were used with backward variable selection to identify factors associated with HRQOL over time (P <.05). Adjusted means reported at 2 years postdiagnosis. Results: African Americans reported better Functional Well-Being than whites (mean of 20.01 vs. 18.53) and fewer HNC symptoms over time. Older patients (75+ years) reported better HRQOL than younger patients (< 50 years). Current tobacco use compared to no tobacco use had worse Physical (20.20 vs. 21.50), Emotional (17.55 vs. 19.06), Social (21.28 vs. 22.88), and Functional (17.32 vs. 19.29) Well-Being and more HNC symptoms (21.50 vs. 23.71). Radiation therapy was associated with worse Physical and Functional Well-Being and more head and neck symptoms over time, but HRQOL was similar to those who were not irradiated by 2 to 4 years postdiagnosis. Conclusion: This study identified key factors for individuals at risk for poorer HRQOL that may help clinicians and caregivers find solutions to address these decrements. Smoking cessation programs can be encouraged for survivors who use tobacco. Psychological and social support and medications may help for dealing with emotional distress and dealing with the physical symptoms from treatment. Level of Evidence: 4. Laryngoscope, 126:2718–2725, 2016.
Overhauser effect in individual InP/GaInP dots
Creators: name: Skiba-Szymanska, J.
name: Nikolaenko, A. V.
name: Chekhovich, E. A.
name: Tartakovskii, A. I.
name: Makhonin, M. N.
name: Drouzas, I.
name: Skolnick, M. S.
name: Krysa, A. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2007
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sizable nuclear spin polarization is pumped in individual InP/GaInP dots in a wide range of external magnetic fields B_ext=0-5T by circularly polarized optical excitation. We observe nuclear polarization of up to ~40% at Bext=1.5T and corresponding to an Overhauser field of ~1.2T. We find a strong feedback of the nuclear spin on the spin pumping efficiency. This feedback, produced by the Overhauser field, leads to nuclear spin bi-stability at low magnetic fields of Bext=0.5-1.5T. We find that the exciton Zeeman energy increases markedly, when the Overhauser field cancels the external field. This counter-intuitive result is shown to arise from the opposite contribution of the electron and hole Zeeman splittings to the total exciton Zeeman energy.
Distinguishing between Different Mechanisms of Network Evolution using Network Motifs and Machine Learning
Creators: name: Manojit  Nandi
Publisher: name: Carnegie Mellon University
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: 170202 Decision Making
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: In this thesis, I will introduce two methodological tools for understanding the evolution of social networks. Using a mathematical representation of social networks based on covariance matrices, I demonstrate machine learning algorithms can use these representations of networks to properly classify networks based on their evolution mechanism with high accuracy. I also show the over-expression of particular network motifs can be used to distinguish between different network evolution processes.
Subdiffusive Activity Spreading in the Diffusive Epidemic Process
Creators: name: Polovnikov, Borislav
name: Wilke, Patrick
name: Frey, Erwin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The diffusive epidemic process is a paradigmatic example of an absorbing state phase transition in which healthy and infected individuals spread with different diffusion constants. Using stochastic activity spreading simulations in combination with finite-size scaling analyses we reveal two qualitatively different processes that characterize the critical dynamics: subdiffusive propagation of infection clusters and diffusive fluctuations in the healthy population. This suggests the presence of a strong-coupling regime and sheds new light on a longstanding debate about the theoretical classification of the system.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Electric Polarizability of the Nucleon in the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio Model
Creators: name: Nikolov, E.
name: Broniowski, W.
name: Goeke, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The electric polarizability of the nucleon is calculated in the soliton approach to the Nambu--Jona-Lasinio model. We analyze the leading-$N_c$ contributions, as well as the effects of rotational $1/N_c$ corrections and $Δ$-$N$ mass splitting. Our model prediction is substantially reduced compared to other soliton calculations, and is closer to the experimental value.
description: 16 pages, RevTeX, 3 figures (included, PS, uuencoded), RUB-TPII-55/93 and TPR-93-38