cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Madame Bovary sou eu: Molero, Walt e il personaggio (meta)narrativo nel romanzo portoghese degli anni ‘70
Creators: name: Tocco, Valeria
Publisher: name: ENTHYMEMA
Year: 2020

description: Tra la fine della dittatura (1974) e l’entrata nella CEE (1986), il Portogallo avvia un ripensamento sul proprio passato che, dal punto di vista letterario, equivale anche a una rinnovata attenzione al rapporto autore-narratore-personaggio. Tra gli esempi di personaggi metanarrativi non ancora presi in considerazione dalla critica, l’intervento si concentrerà su O que diz Molero di Dinis Machado (1977) e Walt, o frio e o quente di Fernando Assis Pacheco (1978).
description: ENTHYMEMA, N. 25 (2020)
Software for administering the National Cancer Institute’s patient-reported outcomes version of the common terminology criteria for adverse events: Usability study
Creators: name: Mendoza, T.R.
name: St. Germain, D.
name: Dueck, A.C.
name: Sit, L.
name: Mitchell, S.A.
name: Cleeland, C.
name: Abernethy, A.P.
name: Bhavsar, N.A.
name: Basch, E.
name: Shalley, E.
name: Rogak, L.J.
name: Reeve, B.B.
name: Baumgartner, P.
name: Shouery, M.
name: Chung, A.E.
name: Fawzy, M.R.
name: Schoen, M.W.
name: Schrag, D.
name: Hudson, L.L.
Publisher: name: JMIR Publications Inc.
Year: 2018

description: Background: The US National Cancer Institute (NCI) developed software to gather symptomatic adverse events directly from patients participating in clinical trials. The software administers surveys to patients using items from the Patient-Reported Outcomes version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (PRO-CTCAE) through Web-based or automated telephone interfaces and facilitates the management of survey administration and the resultant data by professionals (clinicians and research associates). Objective: The purpose of this study was to iteratively evaluate and improve the usability of the PRO-CTCAE software. Methods: Heuristic evaluation of the software functionality was followed by semiscripted, think-aloud protocols in two consecutive rounds of usability testing among patients with cancer, clinicians, and research associates at 3 cancer centers. We conducted testing with patients both in clinics and at home (remotely) for both Web-based and telephone interfaces. Furthermore, we refined the software between rounds and retested. Results: Heuristic evaluation identified deviations from the best practices across 10 standardized categories, which informed initial software improvement. Subsequently, we conducted user-based testing among 169 patients and 47 professionals. Software modifications between rounds addressed identified issues, including difficulty using radio buttons, absence of survey progress indicators, and login problems (for patients) as well as scheduling of patient surveys (for professionals). The initial System Usability Scale (SUS) score for the patient Web-based interface was 86 and 82 (P=.22) before and after modifications, respectively, whereas the task completion score was 4.47, which improved to 4.58 (P=.39) after modifications. Following modifications for professional users, the SUS scores improved from 71 to 75 (P=.47), and the mean task performance improved significantly (4.40 vs 4.02; P=.001). Conclusions: Software modifications, informed by rigorous assessment, rendered a usable system, which is currently used in multiple NCI-sponsored multicenter cancer clinical trials.
(500420) John Smith
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Figure in movimento: José Saramago e il personaggio come rifigurazione
Creators: name: Reis, Carlos
Publisher: name: ENTHYMEMA
Year: 2020

description: La presente analisi focalizza aspetti e personaggi dell’opera di José Saramago in diretta relazione con la riflessione che, nel contesto teorico degli studi narrativi, è stata sviluppata all’interno del progetto di ricerca Figuras da Ficção (Figure della Finzione). Tenendo in considerazione la fortuna mediatica e anche la cosiddetta ultravita di certi personaggi di Saramago, li considero figure in movimento e ne approfondisco la dinamica di rappresentazione data per implicita, ricorrendo alla nozione di rifigurazione. A partire da questa, è possibile affermare che i personaggi finzionali sono figure che transitano nel nostro mondo e vengono ad abitare con noi.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N. 25 (2020)
The velocity distribution of white dwarfs in Gaia EDR3
Creators: name: Mikkola, Daniel
name: McMIllan, Paul
name: Hobbs, David
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: There are ~1.5 billion sources with parallaxes and proper motions in Gaia EDR3. When investigating velocity distributions of stars, one typically combines this with radial velocity measurements to give a full 3D velocity. As Gaia currently has ~7.2 million sources with radial velocities, this leaves only ~0.5% of sources which one can typically use. The wealth of information locked within the remaining ~99.5% cannot be overstated.
 However, with a distribution of stars widely spread across the sky we can statistically estimate its velocity distribution using a maximum likelihood approach and just the parallaxes and proper motions. By removing the need for radial velocities, we can can investigate the kinematics of different populations previously unavailable for such studies. One such population are white dwarfs and in this work, we use a large sample of ~130 000 white dwarfs in Gaia EDR3 and find the velocity distribution and dynamics of several sub-samples within different brightness and colour cuts.
 The velocity distribution of nearby white dwarfs has never been determined using such a large sample. We may learn more about the Solar neighbourhood from how this distribution differs from that of main sequence stars. Interestingly the Colour-Magnitude diagram of white dwarfs from Gaia DR2 revealed a bifurcation, the cause of which is an active topic of research. The second sequence is attributed to a mix of high-mass H-dominated and lower-mass He-dominated WDs. Higher mass WDs will have lived shorter lives and show less dynamical heating than their low-mass counterparts and so can be distinguished through their kinematics. In our work, we investigate these kinematics and velocity distribution of the WDs as a whole as well as in the two separate sequences to provide further insight into these populations.
Teoria e prassi del personaggio nel Nouveau Roman
Creators: name: Iotti, Gianni
Publisher: name: ENTHYMEMA
Year: 2020

description: L’articolo sviluppa alcune considerazioni generali sul meccanismo dell’identificazione emotiva nel personaggio letterario con successivo riferimento alla poetica del Nouveau Roman tramite un’esemplificazione essenziale costituita dall’opera di Nathalie Sarraute e di Alain Robbe-Grillet. L’attenzione si concentra in particolare sulle differenze fra le posizioni teoriche dei due autori per mettere in evidenza lo scarto che, in questa produzione romanzesca, viene a crearsi fra intenzione autoriale e pratica della scrittura.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N. 25 (2020)
G. di John Berger Per la storicizzazione del personaggio neo-modernista
Creators: name: Ciompi, Fausto
Publisher: name: ENTHYMEMA
Year: 2020

description: Il saggio si concentra su G., l’eroe eponimo del romanzo neo-modernista di John Berger, e su alcuni personaggi di contorno del medesimo testo – le figure femminili e il convitato di pietra – allo scopo di illustrare la reinterpretazione della figura di Don Giovanni, da parte dell’autore, quale rivoluzionario biologico e “anti-storico”. Particolare attenzione è riservata alle modalità narrative di costruzione dei personaggi entro un romanzo che mette assieme caratteristiche proprie del realismo e tecniche moderniste, poetiche di cui G. illustra il potenziale critico nei confronti del disimpegno politico postmoderno.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N. 25 (2020)
Basis functions for electronic structure calculations on spheres
Creators: name: Gill, Peter M. W.
name: Loos, Pierre-François
name: Agboola, Davids
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We introduce a new basis function (the spherical gaussian) for electronic structure calculations on spheres of any dimension $D$. We find \alert{general} expressions for the one- and two-electron integrals and propose an efficient computational algorithm incorporating the Cauchy-Schwarz bound. Using numerical calculations for the $D = 2$ case, we show that spherical gaussians are more efficient than spherical harmonics when the electrons are strongly localized.
description: 11 pages, 1 figure, accepted for publication in the Journal of Chemical Physics
Prelude and Solitude: Notes on the Female Characters in English Postcolonial Literature
Creators: name: Rizzardi, Biancamaria
Publisher: name: ENTHYMEMA
Year: 2020

description: Nella letteratura postcoloniale appaiono spesso figure di donne afasiche o mute. Si tratta di personaggi che non parlano, per scelta o per inibizione: donne che non hanno o hanno perduto l’uso della parola; ragazze dai tratti quasi autistici; inquietanti, intriganti figure femminili che rifiutano di esprimersi attraverso il linguaggio, donne tutte che vivono il rapporto con il mondo esterno come violenza. Proprio reagendo a questa situazione, i personaggi femminili dei più recenti romanzi postcoloniali iniziano a parlare: prima per lallazioni, come i bambini che sperimentano un nuovo linguaggio, poi mettendo assieme parole, in fine intere frasi. E finalmente arrivano a raccontarsi, a raccontare, la loro storia, rendendosi conto che ogni persona è la propria storia, e che la violenza più subdola, perpetrata sulle donne, è quella di metterle a tacere.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N. 25 (2020)
(500423) George Best
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
การพัฒนาบทเรียนออนไลน์ เรื่อง การค้นหาและการจัดเก็บข้อมูลกลุ่มสาระการเรียนรู้ การงานอาชีพและเทคโนโลยี สำหรับนักเรียนชั้นประถมศึกษาปีที่ 6 โรงเรียนศรีธรรมราชศึกษา
Creators: name: มาลิสา ทองส่งโสม
Publisher: name: ศูนย์สนับสนุนและพัฒนาการเรียนการสอน มหาวิทยาลัยรังสิต
Year: 2018
Subjects: e-learning searching and data storage
บทเรียนออนไลน์การค้นหาและการจัดเก็บข้อมูล

description: วารสารพัฒนาการเรียนการสอน, 12, 2, 58-69
Ion kinetic energy conservation and magnetic field strength constancy in multi-fluid solar wind Alfvénic turbulence
Creators: name: Matteini, L.
name: Horbury, T. S.
name: Pantellini, F.
name: Velli, M.
name: Schwartz, S. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate properties of the plasma fluid motion in the large amplitude low frequency fluctuations of highly Alfvénic fast solar wind. We show that protons locally conserve total kinetic energy when observed from an effective frame of reference comoving with the fluctuations. For typical properties of the fast wind, this frame can be reasonably identified by alpha particles, which, owing to their drift with respect to protons at about the Alfvén speed along the magnetic field, do not partake in the fluid low frequency fluctuations. Using their velocity to transform proton velocity into the frame of Alfvénic turbulence, we demonstrate that the resulting plasma motion is characterized by a constant absolute value of the velocity, zero electric fields, and aligned velocity and magnetic field vectors as expected for unidirectional Alfvénic fluctuations in equilibrium. We propose that this constraint, via the correlation between velocity and magnetic field in Alfvénic turbulence, is at the origin of the observed constancy of the magnetic field: while the constant velocity corresponding to constant energy can be only observed in the frame of the fluctuations, the correspondingly constant total magnetic field, invariant for Galilean transformations, remains the observational signature, in the spacecraft frame, of the constant total energy in the Alfvén turbulence frame.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal
การพัฒนาสมรรถนะการจัดการเรียนรู้ของครูภาษาอังกฤษโดยใช้การพัฒนาบทเรียนร่วมกัน ในโรงเรียนประถมศึกษาจังหวัดนนทบุรี
Creators: name: ศิตา เยี่ยมขันติถาวร
Publisher: name: ศูนย์สนับสนุนและพัฒนาการเรียนการสอน มหาวิทยาลัยรังสิต
Year: 2018
Subjects: Elementary School Level
English Language
Learning Management
Lesson Study
Professional Teacher Development
การจัดการเรียนรู้
การพัฒนาบทเรียนร่วมกัน
การพัฒนาวิชาชีพครู
ภาษาอังกฤษ
โรงเรียนระดับประถมศึกษา

description: วารสารพัฒนาการเรียนการสอน, 12, 2, 70-81
Spending by commercial insurers on chemotherapy based on site of care, 2004-2014
Creators: name: Trogdon, J.G.
name: Basch, E.M.
name: Keating, N.L.
name: Winn, A.N.
name: Dusetzina, S.B.
Publisher: name: American Medical Association
Year: 2018

description: The impact of price variation because of the site of care—receiving treatment in a physician office vs a hospital outpatient department (HOPD)—is an important driver of health care spending. While patients may receive the same treatment in either setting, insurers typically reimburse payments to HOPDs at a higher rate than to physician offices.Hospitals justify this payment difference because they incur higher overhead costs and treat more medically complex patient populations.
Narratori perplessi e personaggi elusivi: su alcune modificazioni recenti dell’arte narrativa
Creators: name: Brugnolo, Stefano
Publisher: name: ENTHYMEMA
Year: 2020

description: Il saggio sostiene che la forma-personaggio è una caratteristica di qualunque tipo di narrazione. Attraverso di esso gli uomini cercano di rappresentare l’esperienza che il soggetto ha del mondo. Constata però che il modo di concepire il personaggio è cambiato nel tempo e continua a cambiare. Si sofferma infine su un certo tipo di personaggio che pare essersi affermato negli ultimi decenni: il personaggio elusivo, che sfugge sia alla presa del narratore che del lettore. Tale tipo di personaggio non testimonia di un’intenzione cognitivamente nichilistica, ma semmai propugna una visione della realtà in controtendenza rispetto a quella oggi dominante: la comprensione della realtà richiede un atteggiamento di rispetto per la sua complessità e per la resistenza che essa frappone agli sforzi di coloro che vorrebbero conoscerla tutta e subito.
description: ENTHYMEMA, N. 25 (2020)
(500662) John Clayton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: When mothers disengage: stories from women who have gone from participants to observers in their autistic child’s education
Creators: name: Sutherland, Carly
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04haebc03
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: There exists a knowledge gap in our understanding of why some mothers of Autistic children resist engaging fully with their children’s school-based teams, despite the body of research supporting the benefits of constructive family-school relationships. This thesis investigates the narratives of five mothers through the lens of Bronfenbrenner’s ecological systems theory and the feminist theoretical framework of nonunitary subjectivity. The results were analysed for themes inductively using a constant comparative model. The qualitative data gained from this exploration finds that the participants disengage from their children’s school teams after years of experience, intense efforts, discouragement, cumulative stress, and perspective shifts. School leaders should consider that any promotion of re-engagement needs to transpire through a culturally responsive, trauma-informed lens that prioritises relationship building, empathy, and suspended judgement. The research also suggests that more flexible hiring practices could be of benefit. Further research in this area exploring the perspectives of educators, fathers, and more marginalised groups is recommended.
Stellar magnetic activity and Star-Planet Interactions (invited review)
Creators: name: Poppenhaeger, K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stellar magnetic activity is an important factor in the formation and evolution of exoplanets. Magnetic phenomena like stellar flares, coronal mass ejections, and high-energy emission affect the exoplanetary atmosphere and its mass loss over time. One major question is whether the magnetic evolution of exoplanet host stars is the same as for stars without planets; tidal and magnetic interactions of a star and its close-in planets may play a role in this. Stellar magnetic activity also shapes our ability to detect exoplanets with different methods in the first place, and therefore we need to understand it properly to derive an accurate estimate of the existing exoplanet population. Here I review recent theoretical and observational results, as well as outline some avenues for future progress.
description: Invited review for the CoRoT Symposium 3 / Kepler KASC-7 joint meeting, Toulouse, July 2014. To be published by EPJ Web of Conferences
Relaxation dynamics in a binary hard-ellipse liquid
Creators: name: Xu, Wen-Sheng
name: Sun, Zhao-Yan
name: An, Li-Jia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Structural relaxation in binary hard spherical particles has been shown recently to exhibit a wealth of remarkable features when size disparity or mixture's composition is varied. In this paper, we test whether or not similar dynamical phenomena occur in glassy systems composed of binary hard ellipses. We demonstrate via event-driven molecular dynamics simulation that a binary hard-ellipse mixture with an aspect ratio of two and moderate size disparity displays characteristic glassy dynamics upon increasing density in both the translational and the rotational degrees of freedom. The rotational glass transition density is found to be close to the translational one for the binary mixtures investigated. More importantly, we assess the influence of size disparity and mixture's composition on the relaxation dynamics. We find that an increase of size disparity leads, both translationally and rotationally, to a speed up of the long-time dynamics in the supercooled regime so that both the translational and the rotational glass transition shift to higher densities. By increasing the number concentration of the small particles, the time evolution of both translational and rotational relaxation dynamics at high densities displays two qualitatively different scenarios, i.e., both the initial and the final part of the structural relaxation slow down for small size disparity, while the short-time dynamics still slows down but the final decay speeds up in the binary mixture with large size disparity. These findings are reminiscent of those observed in binary hard spherical particles. Therefore, our results suggest a universal mechanism for the influence of size disparity and mixture's composition on the structural relaxation in both isotropic and anisotropic particle systems.
description: 11 pages, 12 figures, supplementary information included, Soft Matter, 2014, in press
การศึกษาความเข้าใจธรรมชาติของวิทยาศาสตร์ โดยใช้กลวิธีการสอน แบบการทำนาย การสังเกต และการอธิบาย เรื่อง ไฟฟ้าและแม่เหล็ก นักเรียนชั้นมัธยมศึกษาปีที่ 5
Creators: name: รุ่งนภา บุญเกี๋ยงวงค์
Publisher: name: ศูนย์สนับสนุนและพัฒนาการเรียนการสอน มหาวิทยาลัยรังสิต
Year: 2018
Subjects: Nature of Science (NOS)
Predict-Observe-Explain strategy (POE)
ธรรมชาติของวิทยาศาสตร์

description: วารสารพัฒนาการเรียนการสอน, 12, 2, 82-92
(500417) Tho. Woodroffe
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Optimizing anticancer therapy in metastatic non-castrate prostate cancer: American society of clinical oncology clinical practice guideline
Creators: name: Bangs, R.
name: Rathkopf, D.
name: Loblaw, A.
name: Rumble, R.B.
name: Hotte, S.J.
name: Morris, M.J.
name: Basch, E.
name: Milowsky, M.I.
name: Celano, P.
Publisher: name: American Society of Clinical Oncology
Year: 2018

description: Purpose This clinical practice guideline addresses abiraterone or docetaxel with androgen-deprivation therapy (ADT) for metastatic prostate cancer that has not been treated (or has been minimally treated) with testosterone-lowering agents. Methods Standard therapy for newly diagnosed metastatic prostate cancer has been ADT alone. Three studies have compared ADT alone with ADT and docetaxel, and two studies have compared ADT alone with ADT and abiraterone. Results Three prospective randomized studies (GETUG-AFU 15, STAMPEDE, and CHAARTED) examined overall survival (OS) with adding docetaxel to ADT. STAMPEDE and CHAARTED favored docetaxel (hazard ratio [HR], 0.78; 95% CI, 0.66 to 0.93; n = 2,962 and HR, 0.73; 95% CI, 0.59 to 0.89; n = 790, respectively). GETUG-AFU 15 was negative. LATITUDE and STAMPEDE examined the impact on OS of adding abiraterone (with prednisone or prednisolone) to ADT. LATITUDE and STAMPEDE favored abiraterone (HR, 0.62; 95% CI, 0.51 to 0.76; n = 1,199 and HR, 0.63; 95% CI, 0.52 to 0.76; n = 1,917, respectively). Recommendations ADT plus docetaxel or abiraterone in newly diagnosed metastatic non-castrate prostate cancer offers a survival benefit as compared with ADT alone. The strongest evidence of benefit with docetaxel is in men with de novo high-volume (CHAARTED criteria) metastatic disease. Similar survival benefits are seen using abiraterone acetate in high-risk patients (LATITUDE criteria) and in the metastatic population in STAMPEDE. ADT plus abiraterone and ADT plus docetaxel have not been compared, and it is not known if some men benefit more from one regimen as opposed to the other. Fitness for chemotherapy, patient comorbidities, toxicity profiles, quality of life, drug availability, and cost should be considered in this decision. Additional information is available at www.asco.org/genitourinary-cancer-guidelines.
(500418) Emily Carter
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Overall survival results of a trial assessing patient-reported outcomes for symptom monitoring during routine cancer treatment
Creators: name: Schrag, D.
name: Kris, M.G.
name: Deal, A.M.
name: Dueck, A.C.
name: Basch, E.
name: Hudis, C.
name: Scher, H.I.
Publisher: name: American Medical Association
Year: 2017

description: Symptoms are common among patients receiving treatment for advanced cancers, yet are undetected by clinicians up to half the time. There is growing interest in integrating electronic patient-reported outcomes (PROs) into routine oncology practice for symptom monitoring, but evidence demonstrating clinical benefit has been limited.
Hyperbolic Inflation in the Light of Planck 2015 data
Creators: name: Basilakos, Spyros
name: Barrow, John D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Rubano and Barrow have discussed the emergence of a dark energy, with late-time cosmic acceleration arising from a self-interacting homogeneous scalar field with a potential of hyperbolic power type. Here, we study the evolution of this scalar field potential back in the inflationary era. Using the hyperbolic power potential in the framework of inflation, we find that the main slow-roll parameters, like the scalar spectral index, the running of the spectral index and the tensor-to-scalar fluctuation ratio can be computed analytically. Finally, in order to test the viability of this hyperbolic scalar field model at the early stages of the Universe, we compare the predictions of that model against the latest observational data, namely Planck 2015.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, Phys. Rev. D., 91, 103517 (2015)
Evidence for $CP$ violation in $B^{+} \to K^{*}(892)^{+} π^{0}$ from a Dalitz plot analysis of $B^{+} \to K^{0}_{\rm S} π^{+} π^{0}$ decays
Creators: name: Lees, J. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a Dalitz plot analysis of charmless hadronic decays of charged $B$ mesons to the final state $K_{\rm S}^{0}π^{+}π^{0}$ using the full BaBar dataset of $470.9\pm2.8$ million $B\bar{B}$ events collected at the $Υ(4S)$ resonance. We measure the overall branching fraction and $CP$ asymmetry to be ${\cal B}\left(B^{+}\to K^{0}π^{+}π^{0}\right) = \left(45.9 \pm 2.6 \pm 3.0^{+8.6}_{-0.0}\right)\times10^{-6}$ and $A_{CP}\left(B^{+}\to K^{0}π^{+}π^{0}\right) = 0.07 \pm 0.05 \pm 0.03^{+0.02}_{-0.03}$, where the uncertainties are statistical, systematic, and due to the signal model, respectively. This is the first measurement of the branching fraction for $B^{+} \to K^{0}π^{+}π^{0}$. We find first evidence of a $CP$ asymmetry in $B^{+}\to K^{*}(892)^{+}π^{0}$ decays: $A_{CP}\left(B^{+}\to K^{*}(892)^{+}π^{0}\right)=-0.52 \pm 0.14 \pm 0.04^{+0.04}_{-0.02}$. The significance of this asymmetry, including systematic and model uncertainties, is $3.4$ standard deviations. We also measure the branching fractions and $CP$ asymmetries for three other intermediate decay modes.
description: 22 pages, 15 postscript figures
(500419) William Thornton
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(500421) Edwin Gyles
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Single neutral pion production by charged-current $\barν_μ$ interactions on hydrocarbon at $\langle E_ν\rangle = $ 3.6 GeV
Creators: name: Le, T.
name: Palomino, J. L.
name: Aliaga, L.
name: Altinok, O.
name: Bercellie, A.
name: Bodek, A.
name: Bravar, A.
name: Brooks, W. K.
name: Butkevich, A.
name: Caicedo, D. A. Martinez
name: Carneiro, M. F.
name: Christy, M. E.
name: Chvojka, J.
name: da Motta, H.
name: Devan, J.
name: Dytman, S. A.
name: Díaz, G. A.
name: Eberly, B.
name: Felix, J.
name: Fields, L.
name: Fine, R.
name: Gago, A. M.
name: Gallagher, H.
name: Gran, R.
name: Harris, D. A.
name: Higuera, A.
name: Hurtado, K.
name: Kordosky, M.
name: Maher, E.
name: Manly, S.
name: Mann, W. A.
name: Marshall, C. M.
name: McFarland, K. S.
name: McGivern, C. L.
name: McGowan, A. M.
name: Miller, J.
name: Morfín, J. G.
name: Mousseau, J.
name: Nelson, J. K.
name: Norrick, A.
name: Osta, J.
name: Paolone, V.
name: Park, J.
name: Patrick, C. E.
name: Perdue, G. N.
name: Rakotondravohitra, L.
name: Ramirez, M. A.
name: Ransome, R. D.
name: Ray, H.
name: Ren, L.
name: Rodrigues, P. A.
name: Ruterbories, D.
name: Schellman, H.
name: Schmitz, D. W.
name: Sobczyk, J. T.
name: Salinas, C. J. Solano
name: Tagg, N.
name: Tice, B. G.
name: Valencia, E.
name: Walton, T.
name: Wolcott, J.
name: Yepes-Ramirez, H.
name: Zavala, G.
name: Zhang, D.
name: Ziemer, B. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Single neutral pion production via muon antineutrino charged-current interactions in plastic scintillator (CH) is studied using the \minerva detector exposed to the NuMI low-energy, wideband antineutrino beam at Fermilab. Measurement of this process constrains models of neutral pion production in nuclei, which is important because the neutral-current analog is a background for $\barν_e$ appearance oscillation experiments. The differential cross sections for $π^0$ momentum and production angle, for events with a single observed $π^0$ and no charged pions, are presented and compared to model predictions. These results comprise the first measurement of the $π^0$ kinematics for this process.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, submitted to Physics Letters B
Identifying defect-tolerant semiconductors with high minority carrier lifetimes: Beyond hybrid lead halide perovskites
Creators: name: Brandt, Riley E.
name: Stevanović, Vladan
name: Ginley, David S.
name: Buonassisi, Tonio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The emergence of methyl-ammonium lead halide (MAPbX3) perovskites motivates the identification of unique properties giving rise to exceptional bulk transport properties, and identifying future materials with similar properties. Here, we propose that this "defect tolerance" emerges from fundamental electronic structure properties, including the orbital character of the conduction and valence band extrema, the effective masses, and the static dielectric constant. We use MaterialsProject.org searches and detailed electronic-structure calculations to demonstrate these properties in other materials than MAPbX3. This framework of materials discovery may be applied more broadly, to accelerate discovery of new semiconductors based on emerging understanding of recent successes.
description: 4 Figures, 1 Table. Appears in MRS Communications (2015), 1-11
Geriatric Assessment as a Predictor of Tolerance, Quality of Life, and Outcomes in Older Patients With Head and Neck Cancers and Lung Cancers Receiving Radiation Therapy
Creators: name: Basch, E.
name: Comitz, E.
name: Deal, A.M.
name: Tepper, J.
name: Chera, B.
name: VanderWalde, N.A.
name: Reeve, B.B.
name: Muss, H.
name: Stravers, L.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Inc.
Year: 2017

description: Purpose To evaluate the association between functional status based on a geriatric assessment (GA) and outcomes of tolerance to treatment in patients with lung or head and neck cancer receiving radiation therapy (RT) or chemoradiation (CRT). Methods and Materials A prospective cohort study was conducted in patients aged ≥65 years with head and neck cancer or lung cancer undergoing curative intent RT or CRT. Pretreatment GA, health-related quality of life (HRQoL), and patient-reported outcomes (PRO) were obtained. Questionnaires were repeated biweekly during RT and at 6 weeks after treatment. Dysfunction was defined as scores <14 on the Instrumental Activities of Daily Living scale. Poor tolerance to treatment was defined by hospitalization, >3-day treatment delay, change in RT or CRT regimen, or death. Associations of dysfunction with tolerance to radiation therapy, HRQoL changes, and PRO ratings were evaluated. Results Of the 50 patients accrued, 46 had evaluable data. Mean age was 72.5 years (range, 65-92 years). At baseline, 37% had dysfunction. Poor tolerance to RT or CRT occurred in 39%. There was no association between dysfunction and tolerance. Patients with dysfunction had lower baseline HRQoL scores. From baseline to end of RT, those with baseline dysfunction had less of a decline in Role Functioning (P=.01) and Global Health Score (P=.04) domains. However, from end of RT to 6-week follow-up, those with dysfunction were more likely to continue to drop in the Physical, Role Functioning, and Social domains (all P<.01). Dysfunction at baseline was also associated with higher severity of certain PROs. Conclusions Pretreatment dysfunction was associated with continued decline and lack of recovery of HRQoL in this patient population. Larger studies could further elucidate the GA's predictive value.
title: Spatio-temporal dynamics of some reaction-diffusion population models in heterogeneous environments
Creators: name: Li, Zhimin
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04haebc03
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Spatial and temporal evolutions are very important topics in epidemiology and ecology. This thesis is devoted to the study of global dynamics of some reaction-diffusion models incorporating environmental heterogeneities. As biological invasions significantly impact ecology and human society, how invasive species’ growth and spatial spread interact with the environment becomes a significant challenging problem. We start with an impulsive time-space periodic model to describe a single species with a birth pulse in the reproductive stage in Chapter 2. In-host viral infections commonly involve hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV), and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV). To explore the effects of the spread heterogeneity on the spread of within-host virus, we propose a time-delayed nonlocal reaction-diffusion model and obtain the threshold-type results in terms of the basic reproduction ratio in Chapter 3. In Chapter 4, we then explore the existence and nonexistence of traveling wave solutions for such a non-monotone system on an unbounded domain, and show that there is a minimum wave speed for traveling waves connecting the infection-free equilibrium and the endemic equilibrium. Mosquito-borne diseases are transmitted by the bite of infected mosquitoes, including Zika, West Nile, Chikungunya, dengue, and malaria. To investigate the effects of spatial and temporal heterogeneity on the spread of the Chikungunya virus, we develop a nonlocal periodic reaction-diffusion model of Chikungunya disease with periodic time delays in Chapter 5. We further establish two threshold-type results regarding the global dynamics of mosquito growth and disease transmission, respectively. At the end of this thesis, a brief summary and some future works are presented.
Tracing early stellar evolution with asteroseismology: pre-main sequence stars in NGC 2264
Creators: name: Zwintz, Konstanze
name: Fossati, Luca
name: Ryabchikova, Tatiana
name: Guenther, David
name: Aerts, Conny
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Asteroseismology has been proven to be a successful tool to unravel details of the internal structure for different types of stars in various stages of their main sequence and post-main sequence evolution. Recently, we found a relation between the detected pulsation properties in a sample of 34 pre-main sequence (pre-MS) delta Scuti stars and the relative phase in their pre-MS evolution. With this we are able to demonstrate that asteroseismology is similarly powerful if applied to stars in the earliest stages of evolution before the onset of hydrogen core burning.
description: CoRoT Symposium 3 / Kepler KASC-7 joint meeting, Toulouse, July 2014. To be published by EPJ Web of Conferences
The Development of ASEAN Youth Leader Training Program on Socio-Cultural Community for Upper-Secondary Students
Creators: name: Saksit Husmin
Publisher: name: ศูนย์สนับสนุนและพัฒนาการเรียนการสอน มหาวิทยาลัยรังสิต
Year: 2018
Subjects: ASEAN youth leader
Curriculum
Development
Upper-secondary students
การพัฒนา
นักเรียนระดับมัธยมศึกษาตอนปลาย
ผู้นำเยาวชนอาเซียน
หลักสูตร

description: วารสารพัฒนาการเรียนการสอน, 12, 2, 93-103
ผลการใช้หนังสือเรียนดิจิทัลตามแนวคิดผู้เรียนเป็นสำคัญ เพื่อส่งเสริมทักษะการเรียนรู้ด้วยตนเองของนักเรียนในระดับประถมศึกษา
Creators: name: สิริรัตน์ วัฒนสมศรี
Publisher: name: ศูนย์สนับสนุนและพัฒนาการเรียนการสอน มหาวิทยาลัยรังสิต
Year: 2018
Subjects: Digital Textbook
Self-directed Learning Skills
Student-centred Approach
ทักษะการเรียนรู้ด้วยตนเอง
หนังสือเรียนดิจิทัล
แนวคิดผู้เรียนเป็นสำคัญ

description: วารสารพัฒนาการเรียนการสอน, 12, 2, 104-115
Coal Fly Ash Modified Graphite-Polyurethane Composite Electrodes for the Electrochemical Determination of Cadmium(II) in Batteries and Water
Creators: name: de Barros, Caio R.
name: Cervini, Priscila
name: Buoro, Rafael M.
name: van der Merwe, Elizabet M.
name: Cavalheiro, Éder T. G.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Coal fly ash (FA), an aluminum silicate by-product and environmental pollutant which is generated during the combustion of coal in coal-fired power stations, was used as an electrode modifier for the determination of Cd(II) in aqueous solutions. In this work, graphite/polyurethane-based composites containing different amounts of FA were prepared and characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) thermogravimetry (TGA), and derivative thermogravimetry (DTG). The graphite/polyurethane composite electrodes (GPUE), with and without FA modifier, were evaluated with regard to their performance as voltammetric electrodes in the determination of metallic cations, using Cd(II) as a probe. After optimizing solution and instrumental parameters affecting the peak current, a differential pulse anode stripping voltammetry (DPASV) procedure was developed for GPUE modified with 5% FA (m/m), resulting in a linear response for Cd(II) from 2.0 x 10−7 to 1.0 x 10−6 mol L−1 with a detection limit (LOD) of 6.6 x 10−8 mol L−1. Cd(II) was added to natural water samples and determined at the 10−7 mol L−1 level with a mean recovery of 99%. It was also extracted from exhausted rechargeable Ni-Cd batteries and diluted to ca. 0.2 µmol L−1 and determined with the same electrode, with recoveries of 98.7% when compared to FAAS. These results serve as a proof of concept that FA is a useful electrode modifier.
(500413) Elizabeth Stephen
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Inflation, Output, and Welfare in the Laboratory
Creators: name: Jiang, Janet Hua
name: Puzzello, Daniela
name: Zhang, Cathy
Publisher: name: Bank of Canada
Year: 2023

description: We develop an experimental framework to investigate the quantity theory of money and the real effects of inflation in an economy where money serves as a medium of exchange. We test the classical view that inflation reduces output and welfare by taxing monetary exchange. Inflation is engineered by constant money growth. We conduct three treatments, where the newly issued money is used to finance government spending, lump-sum transfers, and proportional transfers, respectively. Experimental results largely support theoretical predictions. Higher money growth leads to higher inflation. Output and welfare are significantly lower with government spending, and output is significantly lower with lump-sum transfers, while there are no significant real effects with proportional transfers. A deviation from theory is that the detrimental effect of money growth in our framework depends on the implementation scheme and is stronger with government spending than with lump-sum transfers.
description: Nous élaborons un cadre expérimental pour étudier la théorie quantitative de la monnaie et les effets réels de l’inflation dans une économie où la monnaie sert de moyen d’échange. Nous testons la validité de la perspective classique selon laquelle l’inflation cause une réduction de la production et du bien-être en agissant comme une taxe sur l’utilisation de la monnaie comme moyen d’échange. L’inflation est générée par la croissance constante de la masse monétaire. Nous menons trois expérimentations dans le cadre desquelles de la monnaie nouvellement émise est utilisée pour financer les dépenses publiques, effectuer des transferts forfaitaires et opérer des transferts proportionnels. Les résultats obtenus corroborent dans une large mesure les prévisions théoriques. Une croissance plus élevée de la masse monétaire entraîne une montée de l’inflation. Lorsque la monnaie nouvellement émise sert à financer les dépenses publiques, production et bien-être diminuent de façon significative. Lorsqu’elle sert à effectuer des transferts forfaitaires, la production diminue de façon significative. Lorsqu’elle sert à faire des transferts proportionnels, il n’y a pas d’effet significatif sur la production et le bien-être. Notre cadre se distingue de la théorie en ce que, dans celui-ci, les effets négatifs de la croissance de la masse monétaire dépendent du mécanisme de mise en œuvre et sont plus importants dans le cas des dépenses publiques que dans celui des transferts forfaitaires.
Cognitive Interview-Based Validation of the Patient-Reported Outcomes Version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events in Adolescents with Cancer
Creators: name: Mowbray, C.
name: McFatrich, M.
name: Waldron, M.K.
name: Withycombe, J.S.
name: Sung, L.
name: Baker, J.N.
name: Palma, D.
name: Freyer, D.R.
name: Reeve, B.B.
name: Mack, J.W.
name: Hinds, P.S.
name: Pinheiro, L.C.
name: Basch, E.M.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Inc.
Year: 2017

description: Context The National Cancer Institute created the Patient-Reported Outcomes version of the Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (PRO-CTCAE) to allow direct input on symptomatic adverse events (AEs) from adult patients in oncology trials. Objectives This study sought to determine the youngest age to complete the PRO-CTCAE, evaluated comprehension of PRO-CTCAE among adolescents, tested new items not currently in PRO-CTCAE, and tested a parent-proxy version. Methods From seven pediatric cancer hospitals, 51 adolescents (13–20 years) receiving cancer treatment participated, along with 40 parent proxies. We evaluated 55 AEs from the PRO-CTCAE library (97 questions) and seven new AEs not in PRO-CTCAE that assess symptom frequency, severity, interference, or presence. Questions were distributed across three forms to reduce burden. Cognitive interviews with retrospective probing were completed in age groups of 13–15 and 16–20 year olds. Proxies were interviewed independently. Results In general, the 16–20 year olds and the parent proxies were able to understand and complete the PRO-CTCAE and newly designed AE questions. Five PRO-CTCAE terms (bloating of the abdomen, anxiety, flashing lights in front of your eyes, hot flashes, and bed sores) and the wording of the questions about AE severity were challenging for a few adolescents and proxies. The 13–15 year olds had greater challenges completing the PRO-CTCAE. Conclusion This study extends use of the adult PRO-CTCAE for adolescents as young as 16 years and proposes new questions for seven new symptomatic AEs and a parent-proxy version of PRO-CTCAE. Additional testing of the new questions and alternative language for more challenging PRO-CTCAE items is recommended in adults.