cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Mobiles Arbeiten nach der Pandemie – Ergebnisse einer Studie im Großhandel
Creators: name: Rafflenbeul-Schaub, Christian
Publisher: name: Ostfalia Hochschule für angewandte Wissenschaften Braunschweig/ Wolfenbüttel
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 650 Management

description: Die Studie befasst sich neben der Verbreitung und Nutzung mobilen Arbeitens im Großhandel, dessen Belegschaft analog zum verarbeitenden Gewerbe in der Möglichkeit mobilen Arbeitens geteilt ist, mit den Motiven der Unternehmen für die Fort- bzw. Nichtfortführung mobilen Arbeitens, den Effekten und Herausforderungen mobilen Arbeitens. Sie ist zudem die erste quantitative Studie in Deutschland, die betriebliche Regelungen über die Frage der erlaubten Homeoffice-Tage hinaus beleuchtet. Die Studie repräsentiert die Antworten von 285 Großhandelsunternehmen. Sie zeigt, dass die Fortführung mobilen Arbeitens über die Pandemie hinaus mit der Beurteilung mobilen Arbeitens, dem Vorhandensein eines Betriebsrats, dem Anteil der Angestellten an den Gesamtbeschäftigten und der Bevölkerungsdichte am Unternehmensstandort zusammenhängen. Die Beurteilung mobilen Arbeitens ist vom (Nicht-)Zutreffen positiver und negativer Effekte abhängig: Ein Strukturmodell erklärt rund 60% der Varianz. Während die Arbeitgeberattraktivität das Hauptmotiv für die Ermöglichung mobilen Arbeitens ist, werden Kommunikation, Zusammenarbeit und sozialer Zusammenhalt als die größten Herausforderungen gesehen. Es zeigt sich, dass die betrieblichen Regelungen durch die Unternehmensgröße und das Vorhandensein eines Betriebsrats beeinflusst werden, dass eine Erstattung von Kosten für mobil arbeitende Beschäftigte sich nicht durchgesetzt hat und eine technisch gestützte Kontrolle des Umfangs mobil geleisteter Arbeitszeit der Beschäftigten in der Regel nicht stattfindet.
description: EXPLORATIONEN; 12
Socioeconomic Status and Psychological Function in Children with Chromosome 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome: Implications for Genetic Counseling
Creators: name: McConkie-Rosell, Allyn
name: Hooper, Stephen R.
name: Lewandowski, Kathryn E.
name: Shashi, Vandana
name: Kwapil, Thomas R.
name: Schoch, Kelly
name: Kaczorowski, Jessica
name: Keshavan, Matcheri
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: The purpose of this study is to examine the association between parental socio-economic status (SES) and childhood neurocognition and behavior in children with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS). Although undoubtedly, the deletion of genes in the 22q11.2 interval is primarily responsible for the psychological manifestations, little is known about the role of the environment in either mitigating or contributing to these problems. We examined the association of parental socio-economic status (SES) with cognition and behavior in children with 22q11DS (n=65) and matched healthy control subjects (n=52), since SES is a component of family resources. We found that in children with 22q11DS, higher SES correlated with better overall functioning (p<.01) and social skills (p<.01), and less frequent oppositional defiant behavior (p<.001). These findings were in contrast to the control subjects in whom SES correlated with cognition and achievement, but not behavior. Our results indicate that environmental factors influence the behavioral phenotype in children with 22q11DS, providing a framework for developing appropriate interventions. As such, genetic counseling for families with 22q11DS may include consideration of family resources and inclusion of other health professionals, such as social workers, to explore with the family available social supports and resources.
Anopheles squamosus Theobald.
Creators: name: F. W. Edwards
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1920
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Diptera
Culicidae
Anopheles
Anopheles squamosus

description:  Anopheles squamosus, Theobald.
description: Published as part of F. W. Edwards, 1920, Bulletin of Entomological Research, pp. 133-138 in Bulletin of Entomological Research 11 (2) on page 3, DOI: 10.1017/S0007485300044539, http://zenodo.org/record/163545
In the face of litigation risk : how potential lawsuits shape employment decisions
Creators: name: Shardlow, Thomas Edward
name: 0000-0001-7266-8868
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: Litigation risk
Discrimination
Employment law

description: Despite the constant threat of litigation based on everyday business decisions, management scholars know little about how managers handle the potential for legal action. In this dissertation, I begin to examine the previously unexplored domain of litigation risk, which I define as the extent to which an actor believes that a specific decision is likely to result in a legal or legalized process that may carry extreme negative outcomes. Using a series of three experiments, I begin by demonstrating the distinctiveness of litigation risk from other previously identified domains of risk. I also differentiate litigation risk broadly from other constructs – ethical leadership and agreeableness – that might otherwise explain a person’s perception of and desire to avoid decisions involving litigation risk. I then begin to explore a particular instantiation of litigation risk: employment discrimination. Using a scenario-based study, I demonstrate that litigation risk is empirically distinct from other constructs that have been used to explain the underlying causes of workplace discrimination. I also show that the extent to which litigation risk is perceived differs between hiring, promotion, and termination decisions. Moreover, because litigation risk is more prevalent for members of minority groups, managers tend to avoid and/or mitigate it in ways that may negatively affect the law’s effectiveness in rooting out employment discrimination. Indeed, this paper provides evidence suggesting that the law may only shift the timing of discrimination rather than eliminate it altogether. The theoretical and practical implications of these findings are then discussed.
Assessment of Parental Disclosure of a 22q11.2 Deletion Syndrome Diagnosis and Implications for Clinicians
Creators: name: Hooper, Stephen R.
name: Schoch, Kelly
name: Shashi, Vandana
name: Eubanks, Sonja
name: Faux, Dana
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Most children with chromosome 22q11.2 deletion syndrome (22q11DS) have an IQ in the range that may allow them to be capable of understanding a genetic diagnosis despite mild intellectual disabilities. However, there are no publications that relate to the disclosure of a 22q11DS diagnosis to the affected child, or the factors that influence parents’ disclosure to the child. A pilot study was conducted including eight semi-structured interviews with caregivers of children with 22q11DS, 10 to 17 years of age, to investigate the factors that influence how parents inform their children of the diagnosis. Six of eight participants had disclosed the diagnosis to the child, and most of these parents felt they could have benefited from additional advice from professionals to increase their confidence and success, as well as the child’s comprehension of the information. Those who had not informed the child were uncertain about the words to use, how to initiate the conversation, or were concerned about the child’s level of understanding. Our results demonstrate that genetics professionals should help prepare caregivers for conversations with their children about the diagnosis of 22q11DS, monitor the understanding of the diagnosis over time, and provide ongoing support.
The Role of Chinese-American Scientists in China-US Scientific Collaboration: A Study in Nanotechnology
Creators: name: Wang, Xianwen
name: Xu, Shenmeng
name: Liu, Di
name: Liang, Yongxia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we use bibliometric methods and social network analysis to analyze the pattern of China-US scientific collaboration on individual level in nanotechnology. Results show that Chinese-American scientists have been playing an important role in China-US scientific collaboration. We find that China-US collaboration in nanotechnology mainly occurs between Chinese and Chinese-American scientists. In the co-authorship network, Chinese-American scientists tend to have higher betweenness centrality. Moreover, the series of polices implemented by the Chinese government to recruit oversea experts seems to contribute a lot to China-US scientific collaboration.
description: 13 pages, 7 figures
title: An investigation of some wave-properties of beta-rays
Creators: name: Curran, Samuel C. (Samuel Crowe)
Publisher: name: University of Glasgow
Year: 1937

description: The following thesis contains an account of researches performed by the author in the Research Laboratories of the Natural Philosophy Department at Glasgow University. The sequence of the experimental work is given in the order in which it was carried out, each part leading on naturally to the following one. The investigation of diffraction by methods similar to those used in cathode ray work failed to produce results, but on the other hand an effect was obtained which gave results very similar in their nature to diffraction. This was therefore investigated and thereafter attention was turned to original methods which might be utilised in the study of diffraction. As the method of detention was of fundamental importance the action of electrical counters was studied and this resulted in the discovery of new types of electrical counters, the detecting vessels being H.F. discharge tubes of various kinds. Finally an entirely original method was devised to investigate diffraction and results were obtained by transmission of beta-rays from radium E through films of gold and aluminium.
title: Gemstone Spectral Imaging (dual energy) СT cisternography for the identification of the site of CSF fistula in cases of cranial CSF leak
Creators: name: Sopich, Natallia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Fistula
subject: Contrast agent-other
subject: Image manipulation / Reconstruction
subject: CT
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: 1. To demonstrate the utility of new modality of CT cisternography with Gemstone Spectral Imaging (GSI) for the identification of skull base defects in cases of CSF leak. 2. To demonstrate the efficiency of GSI CT cisternography in compare with...
Cellia tananariviensis Ventrillon.
Creators: name: F. W. Edwards
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1920
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: Cellia tananariviensis, Ventrillon. According to Ventrillon this is by far the commonest Anopheles in Madagascar and his statement is certainly borne out by its abundance in the collections which I have examined. No constant difference was observable between Madagascan and African specimens.
description: Published as part of F. W. Edwards, 1920, Bulletin of Entomological Research, pp. 133-138 in Bulletin of Entomological Research 11 (2) on page 3, DOI: 10.1017/S0007485300044539, http://zenodo.org/record/163545
Genetic Information, Non-Discrimination, and Privacy Protections in Genetic Counseling Practice
Creators: name: Roche, Myra I.
name: Prince, Anya E. R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The passage of the Genetic Information Non Discrimination Act (GINA) was hailed as a pivotal achievement that was expected to calm the fears of both patients and research participants about the potential misuse of genetic information. However, six years later, patient and provider awareness of legal protections at both the federal and state level remains discouragingly low, thereby, limiting their potential effectiveness. The increasing demand for genetic testing will expand the number of individuals and families who could benefit from obtaining accurate information about the privacy and anti-discriminatory protections that GINA and other laws extend. In this paper we describe legal protections that are applicable to individuals seeking genetic counseling, review the literature on patient and provider fears of genetic discrimination and examine their awareness and understandings of existing laws, and summarize how genetic counselors currently discuss genetic discrimination. We then present three genetic counseling cases to illustrate issues of genetic discrimination and provide relevant information on applicable legal protections. Genetic counselors have an unprecedented opportunity, as well as the professional responsibility, to disseminate accurate knowledge about existing legal protections to their patients. They can strengthen their effectiveness in this role by achieving a greater knowledge of current protections including being able to identify specific steps that can help protect genetic information.
Antibiotic-free antibacterial hydrogels for wound healing applications
Creators: name: Orlando, Isabel
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2019

description: Over the past decades, bacterial cellulose (BC) has attracted great interest as a wound dressing thanks to its innate hydrogel-like structure and high biocompatibility. However, the lack of antibacterial features of cellulose poses some limitations to its use, especially in the context of increasing antimicrobial resistance. In this work, various strategies were explored for the development of novel BC-based wound healing devices that can efficiently inhibit bacterial proliferation. First, the production of BC by fermentation of Gluconacetobacter xylinus and its purification from the biomass were optimised. The material was characterised with respect to its morphological, chemical and mechanical properties. The introduction of antibacterial functional groups was then investigated by ring-opening reaction of two epoxides with the hydroxyl groups of glucose in wet basic conditions. Biological tests evidenced that the functionalisation caused a decrease in the bacterial cell count of about 50% for Staphylococcus aureus and Escherichia coli in the first 24 hours, whereas cell viability of over 90% was observed for keratinocytes for up to 6 days. An alternative method for the modification of bacterial cellulose was also studied to improve the antibacterial efficiency. The functionalisation was carried out in anhydrous conditions in two steps, i.e. acrylation by Schotten-Baumann reaction and thiol-ene Michael type addition. Once again, the material was chemically and mechanically characterised, and biological studies were carried out: >99% reduction in the bacterial cell count was observed for both S. aureus and E. coli, with high cytocompatibility towards keratinocytes at all time-points. Finally, the fabrication of Cu-chitosan/BC composites was investigated. SEM images showed no evident phase separation between the polymers, whereas mechanical assays evidenced an increase in the tensile strength and elastic modulus as compared to plain chitosan. An optimal copper concentration threshold was then identified that ensures low cytotoxicity towards keratinocytes and antibacterial activity upon direct contact of over 90% for both S. aureus and E. coli. Overall, the materials developed showed promising results in terms of biological performance to tackle the ever-growing problem of antimicrobial resistance.
The Local Governance of the 2014 Ebola Epidemic: A Comparative Case Study of Liberia and Sierra Leone
Creators: name: Franklin, Sabine
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2019

description: This research investigates community-led interventions in Liberia and Sierra Leone. The objective is to examine the parallels and differences in the response and outcomes of the 2014 Ebola epidemic. Many challenges made aid less effective such as misinformation, rumors, stigma, and logistical difficulties that lowered the demand for aid resources. These market inefficiencies were the demand-side barriers that were prolonging the disease spread. A qualitative methodology was employed to answer the research question. Sixty-seven semi-structured interviews were conducted from January to July 2017; 33 of these interviews were in Sierra Leone and 34 interviews in Liberia. Informants included health workers, chiefs, chiefs’ advisors, a secret society leader, NGO representatives, a government worker, and volunteers during the outbreak. Thematic analysis and the data were supported by NVIVO. The key themes are: ‘Government’s Response and Community Reaction,’ ‘Local Institutional Intervention,’ and ‘Governing the Outbreak.’ Informants were chosen through purposeful sampling methods in three provinces in each country. The findings demonstrate that traditional leaders in Sierra Leone immediately responded through rulemaking and enforcement after the first Ebola case was officially announced. Specifically, rulemaking helped to create behavior changes to increase demand for aid resources, such as mandatory referrals to the health centers. These laws and door-to-door contact tracing were scaled up to a national emergency strategy, relying on traditional leaders to monitor and enforce them. In Liberia, community and traditional leaders organized in many areas to correct some of these demand-side barriers too. In both cases, the response from community-level leaders happened before the international community scaled up aid resources in August 2014, with some donors and humanitarians arriving as late as December 2014. However, Liberia’s local strategies were not scaled up and coordinated nationally, as it was in Sierra Leone. Thus, the interventions implemented were not universal. According to figures by the World Health Organization, Sierra Leone had 25% more Ebola cases than Liberia but had 18% fewer Ebola deaths. This is interpreted as contact tracing and institutional changes having more impact in Sierra Leone to refer Ebola patients into early treatment and reduce deaths.
title: PTC; are we approaching biliary access from the right direction?
Creators: name: Singh, Sandev
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Obstruction / Occlusion
subject: Cancer
subject: Endoscopy
subject: Fluoroscopy
subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Biliary Tract / Gallbladder
subject: MR-Cholangiography

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To describe that PTC can be associated with significant risks and has to be carefully selected in the right cohort of...
title: Differentiation of abnormal myelin in neurometabolic diseases from hypomyelination with FLAIR sequence on MRI
Creators: name: Türk, Sevcan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: Paediatric
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: MRI has a high sensitivity in demonstrating normal and abnormal myelin and detecting changes in myelination. The distinction between different pathological processes is important for a better classification of the various forms of diffuse white...
Optimizing Engineered Tendon Development via Structural and Chemical Signaling Cues
Creators: name: II, Thomas Lee Jenkins
Publisher: name: Purdue University Graduate School
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 400302
subject: Biomaterials
classificationCode: 420701
subject: Biomechanics
classificationCode: 400307
subject: Mechanobiology
classificationCode: 320216
subject: Orthopaedics
classificationCode: 400311
subject: Tissue engineering

description: The rotator cuff is a group of four muscles and tendons in the shoulder that function to lift and rotate the arm. Rotator cuff tendon tears are increasingly common: more than 545,000 rotator cuff surgeries occur annually in the US. However, treatment is often complicated by disorganized collagen matrix formed via fibrosis and results in high re-tear rates. Tendon tissue engineering seeks to solve the problem using biomaterials to promote neo-tendon formation to augment repair or regenerate tendon. However, while current biomaterials provide the opportunity to improve tendon healing, they frequently still exhibit fibrosis in preclinical studies. Therefore, a critical need exists to understand the mechanisms of aligned collagen formation when designing biomaterials for tendon tissue engineering. Matrix architecture and transient receptor potential cation channel subfamily V member 4 (TRPV4) regulate aligned collagen formation during tenogenesis in vitro, but the mechanism remains to be determined. Recently, TRPV4 stimulation was found to induce nuclear localization and activation of transcriptional co-activators Yes-associated protein (YAP). YAP expression is upregulated during tendon development, a process characterized by aligned collagen formation, and in response to physiological mechanical stimulation, suggesting it could play an important role in tendon. The objective of this work is to improve tissue engineering strategies and progress toward making a device that regenerate tendon after injury. Aim 1 incorporates tendon-derived matrix into synthetic polymer scaffolds to add biological signaling cues to induce tenogenesis. Aim 2 uses a 2D photolithography system (microphotopatterning) to optimize architectural and structural cues to promote stem cell differentiation toward tenogenic, chondrogenic, and osteogenic lineages. Aim 3 investigates dynamic tensile loading protocols to promote collagen matrix synthesis and improve engineered tendon mechanical function. Aim 4 investigates the role of TRPV4 and YAP in collagen alignment during engineered tendon development.
How Can Psychological Science Inform Research About Genetic Counseling for Clinical Genomic Sequencing?
Creators: name: Evans, James P.
name: Berg, Jonathan S.
name: Christensen, Kurt D.
name: Henderson, Gail E.
name: Bernhardt, Barbara A.
name: Brothers, Kyle B.
name: Roberts, J. Scott
name: Khan, Cynthia M.
name: Rini, Christine
name: Roche, Myra I.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Next generation genomic sequencing technologies (including whole genome or whole exome sequencing) are being increasingly applied to clinical care. Yet, the breadth and complexity of sequencing information raise questions about how best to communicate and return sequencing information to patients and families in ways that facilitate comprehension and optimal health decisions. Obtaining answers to such questions will require multidisciplinary research. In this paper, we focus on how psychological science research can address questions related to clinical genomic sequencing by explaining emotional, cognitive, and behavioral processes in response to different types of genomic sequencing information (e.g., diagnostic results and incidental findings). We highlight examples of psychological science that can be applied to genetic counseling research to inform the following questions: (1) What factors influence patients' and providers' informational needs for developing an accurate understanding of what genomic sequencing results do and do not mean?; (2) How and by whom should genomic sequencing results be communicated to patients and their family members?; and (3) How do patients and their families respond to uncertainties related to genomic information?
title: DCE MRI evaluation of non-mass enhancing breast lesions: correlation with histopathology
Creators: name: küsbeci, mahmut
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Breast
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Cancer

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The aim of this retrospective study is to evaluate distribution patterns, morphologic properties, internal enhancement features and enhancement kinetics with a correlation of histopathologic diagnoses of non-mass enhancement (NME) in breast...
The astrosphere of the Asymptotic Giant Branch star CIT 6
Creators: name: Sahai, Raghvendra
name: Mack-Crane, Galen P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have discovered two extended half-ring structures in a far-ultraviolet image taken with the GALEX satellite of the well-known mass-losing carbon star CIT 6 (RW LMi). The northern (southern) ring is brighter (fainter) with a diameter of about 15 arcmin (18 arcmin). These structures most likely represent the astrosphere resulting from the shock interaction of CIT 6's molecular wind with the Warm Interstellar Medium, as it moves through the latter. These data provide a direct estimate of the size of CIT 6's circumstellar envelope that is a factor ~20 larger than previous estimates based on CO millimeter-wave line data. We find that CIT 6 has been undergoing heavy mass-loss for at least 93,000 yr and the total envelope mass is 0.29 Msun or larger, assuming a constant mass-loss rate of 3.2 x 10^(-6) Msun/yr. Assuming that the shock front has reached a steady-state and CIT 6's motion relative to the ISM is in the sky-plane, we measure the termination-shock standoff distance directly from the image and find that CIT 6 is moving at a speed of about 39 (0.17 cm^(-3)/n_ISM)^(1/2) km/s through the interstellar medium around it. However, comparisons with published numerical simulations and analytical modelling shows that CIT 6's forward shock (the northern ring) departs from the parabolic shape expected in steady-state. We discuss several possible explanations for this departure.
description: accepted for publication by the Astronomical Journal
A planned, prospective comparison of short-term quality of life outcomes among older patients with breast cancer treated with standard chemotherapy in a randomized clinical trial vs. an observational study: CALGB #49907 and #369901
Creators: name: Kimmick, Gretchen
name: Hurria, Arti
name: Hudis, Clifford
name: Luta, Gheorghe
name: Muss, Hyman B.
name: Mandelblatt, Jeanne S.
name: Makgoeng, Solomon B.
name: Cohen, Harvey J.
name: Winer, Eric P.
name: Tallarico, Michelle
name: Isaacs, Claudine
name: Barry, William T.
name: Pitcher, Brandy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Patients ≥65 years old (“older”) are often not included in randomized clinical trials (RCT), but when they are, care in an RCT might improve quality of life (QoL). We conducted a prospective comparison of QoL among older women receiving standard chemotherapy from the same cooperative group physicians in an RCT vs. an observational study (“off-trial”).
A Spitzer View of Mon OB1 East/NGC 2264
Creators: name: Rapson, Valerie A.
name: Pipher, Judith L.
name: Gutermuth, Robert A.
name: Megeath, S. Thomas
name: Allen, Thomas S.
name: Myers, Philip C.
name: Allen, Lori E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present Spitzer 3.6, 4.5, 5.8, 8.0, and 24 micron images of the Mon OB1 East giant molecular cloud, which contains the young star forming region NGC 2264, as well as more extended star formation. With Spitzer data and 2MASS photometry, we identify and classify young stellar objects (YSOs) with dusty circumstellar disks and/or envelopes in Mon OB1 East by their infrared-excess emission and study their distribution with respect to cloud material. We find a correlation between the local surface density of YSOs and column density of molecular gas as traced by dust extinction that is roughly described as a power law in these quantities. NGC 2264 follows a power law index of ~2.7, exhibiting a large YSO surface density for a given gas column density. Outside of NGC 2264 where the surface density of YSOs is lower, the power law is shallower and the region exhibits a larger gas column density for a YSO surface density, suggesting the star formation is more recent. In order to measure the fraction of cloud members with circumstellar disks/envelopes, we estimate the number of diskless pre-main sequence stars by statistical removal of background star detections. We find that the disk fraction of the NGC 2264 region is 45%, while the surrounding more distributed regions show a disk fraction of 19%. This may be explained by the presence an older, more dispersed population of stars. In total, the Spitzer observations provide evidence for heterogenous, non-coeval star formation throughout the Mon OB1 cloud.
description: 27 pages, 5 figures, accepted to ApJ
Patterns of care in older patients with squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck: A Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results-Medicare analysis
Creators: name: Weissler, Mark C.
name: Chera, Bhishamjit S.
name: Hayes, David N.
name: Meyer, Anne-Marie
name: Zullig, Leah L.
name: Fleming, Mary
name: Carpenter, William R.
name: Shores, Carol D.
name: Tyree, Seth D.
name: Liu, Huan
name: VanderWalde, Noam A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: There is growing evidence in the literature that older patients may not benefit from more intensive therapy for Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC). A growing number of patients with Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma (HNSCC) are age 65 and older; however, much of the evidence base informing treatment decisions is based on substantially younger and healthier clinical trial populations. The purpose of this study was to assess the patterns of care of older HNSCC patients to better understand how age is associated with treatment decision.
title: Volumetric magnetic resonance guided high intensity focused ultrasound ablation of adenomyosis through transverse and longitudinal scars
Creators: name: Duc, Nguyen
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Interventional non-vascular
subject: MR
subject: Ablation procedures
subject: Tissue characterisation

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The presence of transverse or longitudinal abdominal scars in the sonication beam path is still considered to be one of the limiting factors as their appearance might increase the risk of skin and scar burns during the high-intensity focused...
Infant Mortality and Desired Fertility: The Case of the Free Health Care Initiative in Sierra Leone
Creators: name: Xia, Fang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Sierra Leone launched the Free Health Care Initiative, which abolished health user fees for pregnant and breastfeeding women and children under five years of age, in 2010. Combining data from the Demographic and Health Survey and a geocoded dataset for the distribution of public health facilities, I design a difference-in-differences study involving birth timing and transportation cost to investigate its impact on infant mortality and desired fertility. I find that the program does not achieve its goal of reducing infant mortality, with the lack of vaccination being a major problem. Notwithstanding the lack of reduction in infant mortality, the program leads to a significant decline in desired fertility, implying that parents may overestimate the program’s benefits and change their expectations of infant mortality accordingly. Heterogeneous effects by household wealth suggest that poor households are more adversely affected by the program than wealthy ones.
BBC Arabic TV Service and the Lebanese Audience(s): Can They Engage with Each Other?
Creators: name: Makki, Ola
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2019

description: Foreign Arabic speaking channels exist for a reason: to influence. The birth of these channels has been in reaction to political developments which press the nations they are attached to, to speak to foreign audiences. They form one of the most reliable tools for a country’s practice of soft power. BBC Arabic service is no exception. The urge to speak to Arab audiences was related to the high rivalry that the service faced from other pan-Arab channels. Within this context, this study investigates the relationship between BBC Arabic TV and the Lebanese audiences by exploring how BBC Arabic service and the audiences see, perceive and understand each other. The research studies the Arabic service from a political and economic perspective to understand how its milieu impact and influence its relationship with the British establishment as well as the audiences. In addition, critical discourse analysis is used to explore the discursive language BBCATV uses in speaking to audiences by analyzing four BBCATV produced documentaries. This research also studies the Lebanese audiences to understand if what BBCATV offers resonate with their needs, how they see BBCATV, what they expect of it and how they think it sees them. The fieldwork of this study takes place in Lebanon and among the young and educated whom the channel aims to address. The data was obtained through doing focus groups where participants watched and discussed the four documentaries. The results show that BBCA is governed by its milieu and that it still speaks to the audiences as if it is isolated and in need of BBCA to educate and inform them. The findings from the Lebanese audience’s data showed that they have a lack of trust of BBCATV because of its identity as a British organization; they expect media to engage in their societies’ causes therefore they feel detached from BBCATV. The findings also showed that the Lebanese audiences are diverse and have different needs, different expectations of BBCATV and different interpretations to how BBCATV sees them. To conclude, the study shows that Arab audience is in fact audience(s) which is seen, understood and addressed by BBCATV as one lump and which stems from an imperialist perception of the Arab world as one which needs change and modernization according to the western model whether in values or politics.
Digital Divide or Digital Provide? Technology, Time Use, and Learning Loss during COVID-19
Creators: name: Asadullah, M. Niaz
name: Bhattacharjee, Anindita
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: COVID-19 school closure has caused a worldwide shift towards technology-aided home schooling. Given widespread poverty in developing countries, this has raised concerns over new forms of learning inequalities. Using nationwide data on primary and secondary school children in slum and rural households in Bangladesh, we examine how learning time at home during the early months of school closure varies by access to technology at home. Data confirms a significant socio-economic and gender divide in access to TV, smartphone, computer, and internet among rural households. However, the analysis of daily time use data shows only a modest return to a technology in terms of boosting learning time at home. The learning-grade gradient is shallow and insensitive to TV, smartphone, and computer access at home. We also find no evidence that technology access per se helps learning by boosting time spent in online schooling and private supplementary coaching/tutoring. While technology access matters in households where parents act as home tutors, the magnitude of such a complementary effect are not large. The results imply a loss of out-of-school learning time during school closure even in households with technology access. We consider additional hypotheses relating to institutional and socio-economic barriers to home-based learning in developing countries.
title: Amebic encephalitis: neuroimaging findings and literature review
Creators: name: LEITÃO, FERNANDO
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Pathology
subject: Infection
subject: AIDS
subject: Education
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Neuroradiology brain

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The objectives of this study are todescribe the clinical history, treatment, pathology, and imagingof amoebic encephalitis and illustrate some of...
THE CHALLENGES MOST STUDENTS ENCOUNTER DURING LISTENING SKILL
Creators: name: Abenova, Gulchekhra
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The listening skill can be challenging for students due to various factors. Some of the common challenges include understanding accents and pronunciation, dealing with unfamiliar vocabulary, coping with background noise and distractions, following complex instructions, struggling with note-taking skills, lack of practice, anxiety and lack of confidence, and difficulty understanding different accents and dialects. Understanding accents and pronunciation can be difficult for students as they may not be accustomed to hearing speakers with different accents or those who speak quickly. This can make it hard to catch all the words and comprehend the overall message.
Quasinormal frequencies of the Dirac field in a D-dimensional Lifshitz black hole
Creators: name: Lopez-Ortega, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a D-dimensional Lifshitz black hole we calculate exactly the quasinormal frequencies of a test Dirac field in the massless and zero angular eigenvalue limits. These results are an extension of the previous calculations in which the quasinormal frequencies of the Dirac field are determined, but in four dimensions. We discuss the four-dimensional limit of our expressions for the quasinormal frequencies and compare with the previous results. We also determine whether the Dirac field has unstable modes in the D-dimensional Lifshitz spacetime.
description: 13 pages
MPEC 2023-P06 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2023 August 2)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Multiple Selves, Marginalised Voices: Exploring Black Female Psychology Students' Experiences of Constructing Identity in UK Higher Education
Creators: name: Husbands, Deborah
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2019

description: Introduction: What kinds of identity do Black female psychology students construct within higher education? Higher education research in the US and UK points to integration and attainment issues for Black and Minority Ethnic students. Black female students’ experiences are not fully explored among accounts of university experience. As an under researched group, their ‘stories’ risk being lost. This research learned from individual and collective voices of Black women enrolled on an undergraduate psychology degree programme at Russell Group and post-1992 London universities. Semi-structured interviews were used to explore how traditional [18-21 years at the point of enrolment] and nontraditional [22 years and above] Black female students construct identity within higher education. Theoretically driven sub-questions explored concepts such as self-efficacy and a sense of belonging. Method: A pluralistic approach was used to explore experiences. Research was carried out across four phases: in Phase 1, qualitative content analysis was used to explore the experience of nontraditional students. In Phases 2 and 4, interpretative phenomenological analysis was used for traditional students. In Phase 3, a thematic analysis was used for mixed student groups. The research drew on social constructionism and intersectionality to situate students’ experiences. The researcher acknowledged her subjectivity as a mature Black woman when interpreting students’ narratives and used reflexivity to support an authentic exploration. Findings: The participants constructed multiple identities in their academic environments. Nontraditional students constructed an identity of ‘hyphenated’ selves viewed through lenses of maturity and ethnicity. A sense of belonging was noted as crucial for their experience. Traditional students constructed ‘shifting’ selves in response to vacillating between challenges for transitioning and realising a ‘future’ self. Their multiple identities were complicated by a sense of ‘unbelonging’, social class, perceptions of structural racism, and a lack of culturally responsive support that frustrated their attempts to form interpersonal relationships with staff and students. Different theoretical/methodological approaches appeared to be most useful for understanding the experience of different student groups. Discussion: Identity construction is psychologically taxing for these participants with implications for progression and attainment in higher education. Their experiences and perceptions of constructing identities ‘at the margins’ [that is, places of invisibility/hypervisibility] shed further light on the complexity of identity construction in Black women. The findings permit reasonable and novel theoretical inferences for the academic experiences of Black female students in these samples.
title: Chest high resolution computed tomography findings in scleroderma at the time of initial diagnosis
Creators: name: Ufuk, Furkan
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Lymph nodes
subject: Mediastinum
subject: CT
subject: PACS
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Sclerosis
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Chronic obstructive airways disease
subject: Connective tissue disorders
subject: Cysts

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Systemic sclerosis (SS), also known as scleroderma, is an autoimmune collagen vascular disease (CVD) of unknown etiology and it causes abnormal collagen growth in tissues such as skin, lung, heart and digestive tract. SS usually characterized by...
Short-pulse cross-phase modulation in an electromagnetically-induced-transparency medium
Creators: name: Feizpour, Amir
name: Dmochowski, Greg
name: Steinberg, Aephraim M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Electromagnetically-induced transparency (EIT) has been proposed as a way to greatly enhance cross-phase modulation, with the possibility of leading to few-photon-level optical nonlinearities. This enhancement grows as the transparency window width, Δ_EIT, is narrowed. Decreasing Δ_EIT, however, increases the response time of the effect, suggesting that for pulses of a given duration, there could be a fundamental limit to the strength of the nonlinearity. We show that in the regimes of most practical interest - narrow EIT windows perturbed by short signal pulses- the enhancement offered by EIT is not only in the magnitude of the nonlinear phase shift but in fact also in its increased duration. That is, for the case of signal pulses much shorter (temporally) than the inverse EIT bandwidth, the narrow window serves to prolong the effect of the passing signal pulse, leading to an integrated phase shift that grows linearly with Δ_EIT even though the peak phase shift may saturate; the continued growth of the integrated phase shift improves the detectability of the phase shift, in principle without bound. For many purposes, it is this detectability which is of interest, more than the absolute magnitude of the peak phase shift. We present analytical expressions based on a linear time-invariant model that accounts for the temporal behavior of the cross-phase modulation for several parameter ranges of interest. We conclude that in order to optimize the detectability of the EIT-based cross-phase shift, one should use the narrowest possible EIT window, and a signal pulse that is as broadband as the excited state linewidth and detuned by half a linewidth.
Functional status declines among cancer survivors: Trajectory and contributing factors
Creators: name: Platz, Elizabeth A.
name: Han, Xuesong
name: Windham, B. Gwen
name: Foraker, Randi E.
name: Kucharska-Newton, Anna M.
name: Irwin, Debra E.
name: Reeve, Bryce B.
name: Stearns, Sally C.
name: Petrick, Jessica L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: This study aimed to quantify functional status (FS) trajectories pre- and post-diagnosis of cancer, FS trajectories among cancer-free individuals, and factors affecting FS.
Elucidating the Relationship between Chinese Medicine and Systems Biology: A Multi-Sited Ethnography
Creators: name: Glatz, Sabine
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 2019

description: Ever since Chinese medicine encountered modern science in the late nineteenth century, the relationship between the two traditions has been extremely one-sided. At best, scientists perceived Chinese medicine as an archive of primitive knowledge from which potentially useful drugs could be extracted. Chinese medicine practitioners themselves, meanwhile, began a long struggle throughout the twentieth century to modernise their medicine with the help of Western theories and technology. At the turn of the twenty-first century, the involvement of systems biologists in Chinese medicine research created a new encounter, however, that, at least in the rhetoric of its actors, promised a very different kind of relationship: a match of two systems brought together by a shared interest in understanding life, health, illness and medicine as intrinsically complex and not amenable to the reductionist approaches of mainstream science. This research empirically investigates the nature of this relationship and how it emerged. It aims to contribute to the contemporary history of Chinese medicine by exploring the relationship between Chinese medicine and systems biology. This thesis argues that a heterogeneous network evolved, which is composed of human and nonhuman actors and their interactions created globally distributed research projects on Chinese medicine and systems biology. For the purpose of this research, a multi-sited ethnography was conducted over a period of eleven months and a literature survey was employed to trace the start and the development of this heterogeneous network. Ethnographic data reveals in four chapters on the rhetoric and perceptions of the actors, their involvement in Chinese medicine research, their laboratory practice, and the networks and political ties, which developed into a heterogeneous network of Chinese medicine and systems biology research. This research concludes that in the 2000s, a heterogeneous network emerged through the shared ideologies of systems thinking and holism. The shared ideologies set the groundwork for systems biologists to engage with Chinese medicine on its own terms, and created scientific practices, co-operation and funding opportunities between Europe and China.