cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Antioxidant Consumption is Associated with Decreased Odds of Congenital Limb Deficiencies
Creators: name: Siega-Riz, A.M.
name: Shaw, G.M.
name: Pace, N.D.
name: Carmichael, S.L.
name: National Birth Defects Prevention Study
name: Olshan, A.F.
name: Desrosiers, T.
Publisher: name: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
Year: 2018

description: Background: Approximately 1 in 2000 infants is born with a limb deficiency in the US. Research has shown that women's periconceptional diet and use of vitamin supplements can affect risk of birth defects. We investigated whether maternal consumption of nutritional antioxidants was associated with occurrence of transverse limb deficiency (TLD) and longitudinal limb deficiencies (LLD). Methods: We analysed case–control data from mothers and their singleton infants with TLD (n = 566), LLD (n = 339), or no malformation (controls; n = 9384) in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (1997–2009). Using a modified food frequency, we estimated usual pre-pregnancy antioxidant consumption by total fruit and vegetable consumption (in grams) grouped into tertiles, and cumulative antioxidant score (ranging from 1 to 10) based on consumption of three antioxidants: beta-carotene, lycopene, and lutein. We estimated odds ratios (OR) adjusted for maternal age, race/ethnicity, education, smoking, alcohol use, body mass index, and total energy. Results: Compared to women in the lowest tertile of fruit and vegetable consumption, women in the highest tertile were less likely to have infants with TLD (OR 0.74, 95% CI 0.57, 0.96) or LLD (OR 0.82, 95% CI 0.59, 1.13). Compared to the lowest antioxidant consumption score of 1, those with the highest score of 10 had ORs of 0.68 (95% CI 0.48, 0.95) for TLD and 0.77 (95% CI 0.50, 1.17) for LLD. Conclusions: Dietary intake of antioxidants was associated with reduced odds of limb deficiencies. These findings add further evidence for women's periconceptional diet reducing occurrence of some birth defects.
Additional file 7: of Efficacy and safety of intensity-modulated radiation therapy versus three-dimensional conformal radiation treatment for patients with gastric cancer: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Creators: name: Ren, Fang
name: Shaodan Li
name: Zhang, Yin
name: Zhifei Zhao
name: Haiming Wang
name: Yixin Cui
name: Maoyun Wang
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S2. Methodological quality of cohorts assessed using the Newcastleâ  Ottawa scale. (DOCX 18 kb)
Long-term outcome of surgical Class III correction as a function of age at surgery
Creators: name: Phillips, Ceib
name: Proffit, William R.
name: Bailey, L’Tanya J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: In this study, we assessed whether the likelihood of a positive overjet 5 to 10 years after Class III surgery was affected by age at the surgery or the type of surgery and evaluated the amount and pattern of postsurgical growth.
Discretising the velocity distribution for directional dark matter experiments
Creators: name: Kavanagh, Bradley J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Dark matter (DM) direct detection experiments which are directionally-sensitive may be the only method of probing the full velocity distribution function (VDF) of the Galactic DM halo. We present an angular basis for the DM VDF which can be used to parametrise the distribution in order to mitigate astrophysical uncertainties in future directional experiments and extract information about the DM halo. This basis consists of discretising the VDF in a series of angular bins, with the VDF being only a function of the DM speed $v$ within each bin. In contrast to other methods, such as spherical harmonic expansions, the use of this basis allows us to guarantee that the resulting VDF is everywhere positive and therefore physical. We present a recipe for calculating the event rates corresponding to the discrete VDF for an arbitrary number of angular bins $N$ and investigate the discretisation error which is introduced in this way. For smooth, Standard Halo Model-like distribution functions, only $N=3$ angular bins are required to achieve an accuracy of around $10-30\%$ in the number of events in each bin. Shortly after confirmation of the DM origin of the signal with around 50 events, this accuracy should be sufficient to allow the discretised velocity distribution to be employed reliably. For more extreme VDFs (such as streams), the discretisation error is typically much larger, but can be improved with increasing $N$. This method paves the way towards an astrophysics-independent analysis framework for the directional detection of dark matter.
description: 36 pages, 11 figures. Matches version accepted in JCAP. Python code for Radon transform calculation available from the author
Nurses' knowledge and practices in non-pharmacological pain management in neonatal settings: a scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Santos, Ercília Rute Coimbra Dos
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: nursing
subject: neonatal
subject: newborn
subject: Pain
subject: review

description: The aim of this review is to map the existing research about nurses' knowledge and practices on non-pharmacological pain management in neonatology.
The EdHub Library: A Microlearning Design Approach for Teacher Professional Development
Creators: name: Leung, Javier
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 130306 Educational Technology and Computing
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 170103 Educational Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: 130304 Educational Administration, Management and Leadership

description: The EdHub Library is an online professional development (PD) platform for K-12 teachers and school administrators maintained by the College of Education at the University of Missouri-Columbia. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation initially funded the EdHub Library in 2014 in partnership with the university. The purpose of the EdHub Library is to support teachers, principals, university teaching assistants, and teacher prep students in the advancement of best practices in teaching and learning in PK-12 and higher education levels (EdHub Library, n.d.).
 EdHub is part of the Network of Educator Effectiveness (NEE). NEE is a comprehensive educator evaluation system that tracks multiple measures of educator effectiveness, including classroom observation of teachers, units of instruction, professional development plans, and student surveys (Network for Educator Effectiveness, n.d.). NEE school districts have access to (1) a video library of best practices in classroom teaching, (2) a video library of examples for scoring classroom observations, (3) a catalog of self-paced online modules, (4) copyrighted assessment instruments, and (5) a yearly principal calibration training.
Patients’ and orthodontists’ perceptions of miniplates used for temporary skeletal anchorage: A prospective study
Creators: name: Tulloch, J.F. Camilla
name: De Clerck, Hugo J.
name: Nyssen-Behets, Catherine
name: Cornelis, Marie A.
name: Scheffler, Nicole R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Temporary skeletal anchorage is a relatively recent addition to orthodontic treatment. Surgical miniplates, modified with intraoral attachments, provide an alternative to miniscrews for skeletal anchorage. In this study, we wanted to determine patients’ and providers’ perceptions of miniplate use during orthodontic treatment.
Conditioning moments of singular measures for entropy maximization II: Numerical examples
Creators: name: Budišić, Marko
name: Putinar, Mihai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 30E05, 30E20, 41A46

description: If moments of singular measures are passed as inputs to the entropy maximization procedure, the optimization algorithm might not terminate. The framework developed in our previous paper demonstrated how input moments of measures, on a broad range of domains, can be conditioned to ensure convergence of the entropy maximization. Here we numerically illustrate the developed framework on simplest possible examples: measures with one-dimensional, bounded supports. Three examples of measures are used to numerically compare approximations obtained through entropy maximization with and without the conditioning step.
description: Dedicated to Ed Saff on the occasion of his 70th birthday
Pharyngeal airway volume and shape from cone-beam computed tomography: Relationship to facial morphology
Creators: name: Proffit, William R.
name: Cevidanes, Lucia S.H.
name: Grauer, Dan
name: Ackerman, James L.
name: Styner, Martin A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: The aim of this study was to assess the differences in airway shape and volume among subjects with various facial patterns.
Factors associated with employment status before and during pregnancy: Implications for studies of pregnancy outcomes
Creators: name: Lawson, C.C.
name: Bertke, S.J.
name: The National Birth Defects Prevention Study
name: Gilboa, S.M.
name: Desrosiers, T.A.
name: Rocheleau, C.M.
name: Bell, E.
name: Romitti, P.A.
name: Agopian, A.J.
Publisher: name: Wiley-Liss Inc.
Year: 2017

description: Background: Potential confounding or effect modification by employment status is frequently overlooked in pregnancy outcome studies. Methods: To characterize how employed and non-employed women differ, we compared demographics, behaviors, and reproductive histories by maternal employment status for 8,343 mothers of control (non-malformed) infants in the National Birth Defects Prevention Study (1997–2007) and developed a multivariable model for employment status anytime during pregnancy and the 3 months before conception. Results: Sixteen factors were independently associated with employment before or during pregnancy, including: maternal age, pre-pregnancy body mass index, pregnancy intention, periconceptional/first trimester smoking and alcohol consumption, and household income. Conclusions: Employment status was significantly associated with many common risk factors for adverse pregnancy outcomes. Pregnancy outcome studies should consider adjustment or stratification by employment status. In studies of occupational exposures, these differences may cause uncontrollable confounding if non-employed women are treated as unexposed instead of excluded from analysis. Am. J. Ind. Med. 60:329–341, 2017. © 2017 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Additional file 1: of Clinically relevant pharmacokinetic knowledge on antibiotic dosing among intensive care professionals is insufficient: a cross-sectional study
Creators: name: Fleuren, Lucas
name: Roggeveen, Luca
name: Tingjie Guo
name: Waldauf, Petr
name: Voort, Peter
name: Bosman, Rob
name: Swart, Eleonora
name: Girbes, Armand
name: Elbers, Paul
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Science Policy
subject: 60506 Virology

description: Result per country for intensivists (percentages and absolute numbers). (DOC 434 kb)
"Fünf gerade sein lassen" oder "Der Wahrheit die Ehre geben?"
Creators: name: Splett, Jörg
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 21 Nr. 5 (1992): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 21, Heft 5
Theory of high-efficiency sum-frequency generation for single-photon waveform conversion
Creators: name: Donohue, John M.
name: Mazurek, Michael D.
name: Resch, Kevin J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The optimal properties for single photons may vary drastically between different quantum technologies. Along with central frequency conversion, control over photonic temporal waveforms will be paramount to the effective coupling of different quantum systems and efficient distribution of quantum information. Through the application of pulse shaping and the nonlinear optical process of sum-frequency generation, we examine a framework for manipulation of single-photon waveforms. We use a non-perturbative treatment to determine the parameter regime in which both high-efficiency and high-fidelity conversion may be achieved for Gaussian waveforms and study the effect such conversion techniques have on energy-time entanglement. Additionally, we prove that aberrations due to time ordering are negligible when the phasematching is nonrestrictive over the input bandwidths. Our calculations show that ideal quantum optical waveform conversion and quantum time lensing may be fully realized using these techniques.
description: 13 pages including two appendices, 4 figures. Update contains additional references, minor changes to the text and figures to match refereed version
Additional file 1: of The score of integrated disease surveillance and response adequacy (SIA): a pragmatic score for comparing weekly reported diseases based on a systematic review
Creators: name: Bien-Aimé Mandja
name: Bompangue, Didier
name: Handschumacher, Pascal
name: Gonzalez, Jean-Paul
name: Salem, Gérard
name: Jean-Jacques Muyembe
name: Mauny, Frédéric
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Computational Biology

description: Appendix 1. PRISMA 2009 Checklist. A checklist includes 27 items deemed essential for transparent reporting of a systematic review. (DOCX 32 kb). (DOCX 31 kb)
title:  Sulle patologie e sulla dimensione etica della democrazia contemporanea
Creators: name: Tundo  ,  Laura
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2014

description: In questione nel presente articolo è l'efficacia del sistema democratico, delle sue regole e procedure, degli ideali morali condivisi di libertà e dignità, eguaglianza e giustizia sociale.
description: B@belonline vol. 16/17 Pensare Altrimenti
Schüchternheit und mündliche Teilnahme im Unterricht: Eine Befragung von schüchternen Schüler*innen.
Creators: name: Schmid, Sandra Carina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Sonderpädagogik
Masterarbeit
Schüchterne Schüler
mündliche Unterrichtsteilnahme

description: Schüchterne Kinder werden im Unterricht seltener wahrgenommen, da sie zurückhaltend und unauffällig sind und den Unterricht nicht stören. Sie haben Angst vor falschen Antworten und trauen sich oft nicht am mündlichen Unterricht teilzunehmen, obwohl sie die Antwort wüssten. In der Forschung wurde häufig die Sichtweise Dritter eingeholt, weshalb der Fokus in dieser Arbeit auf der Sichtweise schüchterner Kinder liegt. Es interessiert, was sie brauchen, damit sie sich am mündlichen Unterricht beteiligen können und wie die Lehrpersonen und die Mitschüler*innen sie dabei unterstützen können. Anhand eines Fragebogens wurden vier Mädchen für ein Einzel-interview bestimmt. Die Grounded Theory Methodologie wurden für die Auswertung der Interviews verwendet. Es zeigt sich, dass die Angst vor Leistungsversagen und Fehlern in allen Interviews als wichtige Punkte hervorgehen und den Lehrpersonen mehr Wissen über das Verhalten und die Unterstützungsmöglichkeiten schüchterner Kinder vermittelt werden muss.
IN-VITRO EFFICACY TEST OF ANTI-POLLUTION SKIN LOTION FORMULATIONS
Creators: name: Ryan Moravec
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: An increasing body of evidence suggests that ozone air pollution induces oxidative stress at the
skin surface. With six double bonds and comprising 12% of skin surface sebum, squalene is readily
oxidized forming various squalene peroxides which have been detected in acne comedones. This
research develops a method to reproducibly expose artificial skin lipids (ASL) to ozone in vitro to quantify
the squalene decay, reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation, and ozone deposition. ROS
concentrations are measured using a colorimetric assay, the squalene concentration is measured by gas
chromatography mass spectrometry (GCMS) and ozone concentrations and uptake are measured with a
photometric ozone analyzer. This overall method is then used to test two lotion formulations' ability to
inhibit oxidative stress on the skin. Applying lotions to ASL resulted in a clear decrease in the squalene
decay rate compared to an experiment with only ASL. The ROS generation rate and ROS yield were not
significantly influenced by lotions. This method may be a useful tool to test anti-pollution claims of lotion
but future research should identify the kinds of ROS formed.
Boosted dark matter signals uplifted with self-interaction
Creators: name: Kong, Kyoungchul
name: Mohlabeng, Gopolang
name: Park, Jong-Chul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore detection prospects of a non-standard dark sector in the context of boosted dark matter. We focus on a scenario with two dark matter particles of a large mass difference, where the heavier candidate is secluded and interacts with the standard model particles only at loops, escaping existing direct and indirect detection bounds. Yet its pair annihilation in the galactic center or in the Sun may produce boosted stable particles, which could be detected as visible Cherenkov light in large volume neutrino detectors. In such models with multiple candidates, self-interaction of dark matter particles is naturally utilized in the {\it assisted freeze-out} mechanism and is corroborated by various cosmological studies such as N-body simulations of structure formation, observations of dwarf galaxies, and the small scale problem. We show that self-interaction of the secluded (heavier) dark matter greatly enhances the capture rate in the Sun and results in promising signals at current and future experiments. We perform a detailed analysis of the boosted dark matter events for Super-Kamiokande, Hyper-Kamiokande and PINGU, including notable effects such as evaporation due to self-interaction and energy loss in the Sun.
description: 24 pages, 8 figures; discussion on the boosted DM flux from the Earth, references added, typos corrected; published in PLB
Protocol for designing INVITES-IN, a tool for assessing the internal validity of in vitro studies
Creators: name: Svendsen, Camilla
name: Whaley, Paul
name: Vist, Gunn E
name: Husøy, Trine
name: Beronius, Anna
name: Di Consiglio, Emma
name: Druwe, Ingrid
name: Hartung, Thomas
name: Hatzi, Vasiliki I
name: Hoffmann, Sebastian
name: Hooijmans, Carlijn
name: Kass, Georges
name: Machera, Kyriaki
name: Robinson, Joshua F
name: Roggen, Erwin
name: Rooney, Andrew A
name: Roth, Nicolas
name: Spilioti, Eliana
name: Spyropoulou, Anastasia
name: Tcheremenskaia, Olga
name: Testai, Emanuela
name: Vinken, Mathieu
name: Mathisen, Gro Haarklou
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cell culture
NAMs
Next Generation Risk Assessment
Risk of bias

description: Methods to generate evidence for regulatory toxicology are increasingly shifting from classical animal experiments to new approach methodologies (NAMs), with a corresponding need for methods to incorporate them in systematic reviews and other evidence synthesis processes. While many tools have been created for assessing in vitro studies, no single tool is obviously authoritative specifically for assessing the internal validity of in vitro study designs. We therefore aim to address this situation by developing a new tool, INVITES-IN, for evaluating the internal validity of in vitro studies, using methods that ensure we are building on prior work, with a degree of rigour consistent with our intent to provide an authoritative assessment tool. The current protocol describes three of the four studies that will be performed to create the release version of INVITES-IN. In the first study, evaluation of existing assessment tools will be combined with focus group discussions to identify how characteristics of the design or conduct of an in vitro study can affect its internal validity. In the second study, group agreement on internal validity domains and items of importance for in vitro studies will be identified via a modified Delphi methodology. In the third study, the draft version of INVITES-IN will be created. A separate protocol will be prepared for the fourth study, which includes the user testing, validation of the tool, and collection of users’ experience.
Size Dependent Dissolution of Silver Nanoparticles in Human Monocytic/Macrophage-Like U937 Cells and Speciation by Single Particle-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (SP-ICP-MS)
Creators: name: Alp, Orkun
name: Engin, Ayse Basak
name: Ertas, Nusret
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer

description: Various analytical methods have been employed to assess the nanoparticle (NP) toxicity and to better understand cell interactions. In this study, a rapid single particle – inductively coupled plasma – mass spectrometry (SP-ICP-MS) method is utilized to evaluate silver nanoparticle (AgNP) uptake by human monocytic/macrophage-like U937 cells. For this purpose, the cells were incubated with 40 nm and 70 nm AgNPs at 100 and 1000 ng mL−1 for 48 h. After cells were incubated with 40 nm and 70 nm AgNPs at the lower dosage (100 ng mL−1), the silver mass per cell was determined to be 1.5 ± 0.1 fg/cell (approximately 4 nanoparticles) and 3.6 ± 0.1 fg/cell (approximately 2 nanoparticles), respectively. Furthermore, for 100 ng mL−1 AgNP exposure, the results showed that silver was present both in the medium and in cell lysate only as AgNP. However, when cells were treated with 40 nm and 70 nm AgNPs at 1000 ng mL−1, approximately 10% and 40% of the total Ag concentration in cell lysate were AgNP and the rest was Ag+, while AgNP was the only species in the medium. The results show that 40 nm AgNP dissolved significantly more in cells compared to 70 nm AgNP. Moreover, ultracentrifugation, ICP-MS, and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) were employed with scanning transmission electron microscopy (STEM) to validate and confirm the SP-ICP-MS results.
Additional file 2: of The score of integrated disease surveillance and response adequacy (SIA): a pragmatic score for comparing weekly reported diseases based on a systematic review
Creators: name: Bien-Aimé Mandja
name: Bompangue, Didier
name: Handschumacher, Pascal
name: Gonzalez, Jean-Paul
name: Salem, Gérard
name: Jean-Jacques Muyembe
name: Mauny, Frédéric
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Appendix 2. . Database search strategies. Description of data: Appendix 2 includes the search terms for the epidemiological surveillance, administrative data, health information, health statistics, reported morbidity, real morbidity and data quality. (DOCX 35 kb)
Precision of cephalometric landmark identification: Cone-beam computed tomography vs conventional cephalometric views
Creators: name: Gubler, Maritzabel
name: Cevidanes, Lucia
name: Mol, André
name: Ludlow, John B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: In this study, we compared the precision of landmark identification using displays of multi-planar cone-beam computed tomographic (CBCT) volumes and conventional lateral cephalograms (Ceph).
Superimposition of 3-dimensional cone-beam computed tomography models of growing patients
Creators: name: DeClerck, Hugo J.
name: Heymann, Gavin
name: Cevidanes, Lucia H.C.
name: Cornelis, Marie A.
name: Tulloch, J.F. Camilla
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: The objective of this study was to evaluate a new method for superimposition of 3-dimensional (3D) models of growing subjects.
Second-order interaction corrections to the Fermi surface and the quasiparticle properties of dipolar fermions in three dimensions
Creators: name: Krieg, Jan
name: Lange, Philipp
name: Bartosch, Lorenz
name: Kopietz, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the renormalized Fermi surface and the quasiparticle properties in the Fermi liquid phase of three-dimensional dipolar fermions to second order in the dipole-dipole interaction. Using parameters relevant to an ultracold gas of erbium atoms, we find that the second-order corrections typically renormalize the Hartree-Fock results by less than one percent. On the other hand, if we use the second-order correction to the compressibility to estimate the regime of stability of the system, the point of instability is already reached for a significantly smaller interaction strength than in the Hartree-Fock approximation.
description: 10 pages, 7 figures
Dentofacial effects of bone-anchored maxillary protraction: A controlled study of consecutively treated Class III patients
Creators: name: De Clerck, Hugo
name: Cevidanes, Lucia
name: Baccetti, Tiziano
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: In this cephalometric investigation, we analyzed the treatment effects of bone-anchored maxillary protraction (BAMP) with miniplates in the maxilla and mandible connected by Class III elastics in patients with Class III malocclusion.
Protocol for designing INVITES-IN, a tool for assessing the internal validity of in vitro studies
Creators: name: Svendsen, Camilla
name: Whaley, Paul
name: Vist, Gunn E
name: Husøy, Trine
name: Beronius, Anna
name: Di Consiglio, Emma
name: Druwe, Ingrid
name: Hartung, Thomas
name: Hatzi, Vasiliki I
name: Hoffmann, Sebastian
name: Hooijmans, Carlijn R
name: Kass, Georges
name: Machera, Kyriaki
name: Robinson, Joshua F
name: Roggen, Erwin
name: Rooney, Andrew A
name: Roth, Nicolas
name: Spilioti, Eliana
name: Spyropoulou, Anastasia
name: Tcheremenskaia, Olga
name: Testai, Emanuela
name: Vinken, Mathieu
name: Mathisen, Gro Haarklou
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cell culture
NAMs
Next Generation Risk Assessment
Risk of bias

description: Methods to generate evidence for regulatory toxicology are increasingly shifting from classical animal experiments to new approach methodologies (NAMs), with a corresponding need for methods to incorporate them in systematic reviews and other evidence synthesis processes. While many tools have been created for assessing in vitro studies, no single tool is obviously authoritative specifically for assessing the internal validity of in vitro study designs. We therefore aim to address this situation by developing a new tool, INVITES-IN, for evaluating the internal validity of in vitro studies, using methods that ensure we are building on prior work, with a degree of rigour consistent with our intent to provide an authoritative assessment tool. The current protocol describes three of the four studies that will be performed to create the release version of INVITES-IN. In the first study, evaluation of existing assessment tools will be combined with focus group discussions to identify how characteristics of the design or conduct of an in vitro study can affect its internal validity. In the second study, group agreement on internal validity domains and items of importance for in vitro studies will be identified via a modified Delphi methodology. In the third study, the draft version of INVITES-IN will be created. A separate protocol will be prepared for the fourth study, which includes the user testing, validation of the tool, and collection of users’ experience.
description: Revised version
Air Temperature Changes in Jerusalem
Creators: name: Nowarski, Joseph
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 40104 Climate Change Processes
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences

description: Two completely different monitoring systems were applied to analyze annual air temperature differences. The first monitoring system for analysis of changes in air temperature in Jerusalem is a meteorological station at Jerusalem University. The second monitoring system for analysis of surface temperature changes globally and locally in Israel is applied by NASA and further analyzed and detailed by FAOSTAT. Both monitoring systems indicate an average temperature increase since the starting year of the Jerusalem database, 1993. The temperature difference between the year 1993 and 2021 in Jerusalem is 1.44°C, in Israel 1.52°C and global 1.09°C. Application of 30 years linear trendlines in various periods shows a constant increase in the slope of the trendlines from 0.0209°C/y in years 1962-1991 to 0.0357°C/y in years 1992-2021 for the global change of surface temperature. According to the most recent trendline, the temperature increase in the year 2035 compared to the 1951-1980 baseline will be 2.20°C in Jerusalem, 2.28°C in Israel, and global 1.96°C.
Efficiency of light-emitting diode and halogen units in reducing residual monomers
Creators: name: Almeida, Marco Antonio
name: Cevidanes, Lucia H.S.
name: Carvalho, Felipe de Assis Ribeiro
name: Almeida, Rhita C.
name: Leite, Marcia C. Amorim M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: In this in-vitro study, we aimed to compare the residual monomers in composites beneath brackets bonded to enamel, using a light-emitting diode (LED) or a halogen unit, and to compare the residual monomers in the central to the peripheral areas of the composite.
Evaluating the Bayesian Maximum Entropy Space/Time Method to Map COVID-19 Incidence Rates at Fine Spatial Scales Across North Carolina
Creators: name: Hoffman, Kelly
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: There is an urgent need for COVID-19 disease mapping in order to understand and prevent the virus’s spread in North Carolina. Individual-level, lab-confirmed COVID-19 cases with residential addresses from March 2nd, 2020 to September 30th, 2021 were obtained from the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS). The addresses were cleaned, geocoded, spatially joined to their respective ZIP Code, Census Tract, and Census Block Group, and the COVID-19 incidence rates were estimated across North Carolina. By comparing four different model approaches, we show that the Bayesian Maximum Entropy (BME) method of geostatistics is ideal for identifying fine-scale visual patterns and addressing the small number problem in disease mapping of COVD-19 incidence rates. Specifically, we demonstrate that disease trends can be identified at over four times finer resolution using Census Tract or Census Block Group level incidence rates compared to ZIP Code level incidence rates and that soft data approaches that account for sampling variability error can be used to more accurately estimate COVID-19 incidence rates in North Carolina at all three spatial resolutions.
Three-dimensional analysis of maxillary protraction with intermaxillary elastics to miniplates
Creators: name: Cevidanes, Lucia
name: Cornelis, Marie
name: Tulloch, J. F. Camilla
name: Heymann, Gavin C.
name: De Clerck, Hugo J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Early Class III treatment with reverse-pull headgear generally results in maxillary skeletal protraction but is frequently also accompanied by unfavorable dentoalveolar effects. An alternative treatment with intermaxillary elastics from a temporary anchorage device might permit equivalent favorable skeletal changes without the unwanted dentoalveolar effects.
Three-dimensional surgical simulation
Creators: name: Styner, Martin
name: Chapuis, Jonas
name: Kim, Hyungmin
name: Cevidanes, Lucia H.C.
name: Jaskolka, Michael
name: Proffit, William
name: Tucker, Scott
name: Reyes, Mauricio
name: Turvey, Timothy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: This paper discusses the development of methods for computer-aided jaw surgery. Computer-aided jaw surgery allows us to incorporate the high level of precision necessary for transferring virtual plans into the operating room. We also present a complete computer-aided surgery (CAS) system developed in close collaboration with surgeons. Surgery planning and simulation include construction of 3D surface models from Cone-beam CT (CBCT), dynamic cephalometry, semi-automatic mirroring, interactive cutting of bone and bony segment repositioning. A virtual setup can be used to manufacture positioning splints for intra-operative guidance. The system provides further intra-operative assistance with the help of a computer display showing jaw positions and 3D positioning guides updated in real-time during the surgical procedure. The CAS system aids in dealing with complex cases with benefits for the patient, with surgical practice, and for orthodontic finishing. Advanced software tools for diagnosis and treatment planning allow preparation of detailed operative plans, osteotomy repositioning, bone reconstructions, surgical resident training and assessing the difficulties of the surgical procedures prior to the surgery. CAS has the potential to make the elaboration of the surgical plan a more flexible process, increase the level of detail and accuracy of the plan, yield higher operative precision and control, and enhance documentation of cases. Supported by NIDCR {"type":"entrez-nucleotide","attrs":{"text":"DE017727","term_id":"62260683","term_text":"DE017727"}}DE017727, and {"type":"entrez-nucleotide","attrs":{"text":"DE018962","term_id":"62262170","term_text":"DE018962"}}DE018962
Comparison of mesiodistal root angulation with posttreatment panoramic radiographs and cone-beam computed tomography
Creators: name: Phillips, Ceib
name: Bouwens, Daniel G.
name: Cevidanes, Lucia
name: Ludlow, John B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Orthodontists assess mesiodistal root angulations before, during, and after orthodontic treatment as an aid in establishing proper root position. Panoramic imaging has been useful for this purpose and is a valuable screening tool in diagnosis and planning treatment of orthodontic patients. Cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) for imaging of the craniofacial complex creates the opportunity to evaluate 3-dimensional images compared with traditional 2-dimensional images. The purpose of this project was to compare mesiodistal root angulations by using posttreatment panoramic radiographic images and CBCT scans.
Flavor dependence of baryon melting temperature in effective models of QCD
Creators: name: Torres-Rincon, Juan M.
name: Sintes, Benjamin
name: Aichelin, Joerg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We apply the three-flavor (Polyakov-)Nambu-Jona-Lasinio model to generate baryons as quark-diquark bound states using many-body techniques at finite temperature. All the baryonic states belonging to the octet and decuplet flavor representations are generated in the isospin-symmetric case. For each state we extract the melting temperature at which the baryon may decay into a quark-diquark pair. We seek for an evidence of the strangeness dependence of the baryon melting temperature as suggested by the statistical thermal models and supported by lattice-QCD results. A clear and robust signal for this claim is found, pointing to a flavor dependence of the hadronic deconfinement temperature.
description: 23 pages, 12 figures, 6 appendices. v2: Quark condensates and susceptibilities are presented. One parameter of the PNJL model is modified to account for its dependence on the number of flavors; this brings a better agreement between the NJL and PNJL models. Typos are corrected and new references added. Version accepted for its publication in the Physical Review C journal
Quantification of Arsenic Species in Wheat Flour Samples by Ion Chromatography Coupled to High Resolution Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (IC-HR-ICP-MS)
Creators: name: Thosago, Magadima Mary
name: Botha, Angelique
name: Ambushe, Abayneh Ataro
name: Godeto, Taddese Wondimu
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Plant Biology

description: A method was developed for arsenic speciation of South African wheat flour by microwave-assisted extraction with ion chromatography (IC) separation and detection with high resolution inductively coupled plasma–mass spectrometry (IC-HR-ICP-MS). Method optimization included development of the extraction and elution methods for baseline separation of the As-species in the samples. The As-species were successfully extracted using deionized water and baseline separation was attained using a gradient elution method with 0.5 mM HNO3 (pH 3.4) and 50 mM HNO3 (pH 1.4). Method validation parameters, including trueness (bias), precision, linearity, limit of detection (LOD), limit of quantification (LOQ) and selectivity were evaluated to assess the quality of the results. Three certified reference materials (CRMs), NIST SRM 1568b (rice flour), NMIJ CRM 7533-a (brown rice flour), and ERM BC211 (brown rice flour) were used to evaluate the trueness of the developed method. Low limits of detection and quantification were achieved (0.3 to 2.6 pg g−1 and 1.1 to 8.6 pg g−1, respectively) for the As-species. The dominant peaks in the wheat flour were arsenite (As(III)), dimethyl arsenic acid (DMA), and arsenate (As(V)). The concentrations of the inorganic (iAs), i.e., As(III) and As(V) in the wheat flour were very low from 6.8 to 17.8 ng g−1, with a relative expanded uncertainty (U) of <6.9% (k=2), which is below the permissible level of iAs in food and food products proposed by the World Health Organization (WHO).
Faces in 4 dimensions: Why do we care, and why the fourth dimension?
Creators: name: Trotman, Carroll-Ann
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: The purpose of this article is to describe a dynamic approach for 3-dimensional analyses of facial soft-tissue movements. The method and analysis have numerous applications but, most specifically, are used to assess diagnostic and treatment outcomes of soft-tissue surgery in patients with repaired cleft lip and palate.
Validation of Trace Element Analysis of Geological Materials by Single-Pulse Laser Ablation-Inductively Coupled Plasma-Mass Spectrometry (LA-ICP-MS)
Creators: name: Sagawa, Takuya
name: Tamura, Akihiro
name: Okino, Kyoko
name: Morishita, Tomoaki
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology

description: Laser ablation–inductively coupled plasma – mass spectrometry (LA–ICP–MS) is a powerful tool for determining the elemental and isotopic compositions of various samples. The disadvantage of LA–ICP–MS is that it consumes more sample material than other types of in situ analytical methods. To extend the application of this method to trace element analysis, we conducted single-pulse LA–ICP–MS analysis of the Reference Materials of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (SRM 610, 612, and 614) and the United States Geological Survey (BCR-2G, BHVO-2G, and BIR-1G). The accuracy of the determined concentrations and the precision of the single-pulse LA–ICP–MS analysis were verified by comparison with recommended concentrations for these standards and those obtained by conventional analysis with the same system. Time-resolved profiles of the analyzed elements in the glass samples show that the background-corrected intensity reaches a peak immediately after the start of the laser pulse and then gradually decreases. During each analysis, the isotope ratios are stable until the background-corrected intensity of the elements reaches 5% of the peak values. The relative standard deviation of the single-pulse LA–ICP–MS analyses is significantly higher than for conventional LA–ICP–MS analysis. However, most of the determined concentrations obtained from the reference materials except for NIST SRM614, NIST SRM612, BCR-2G, and BHVO-2G mostly agreed with the recommended values within 20%. In addition, the geochemical features of basaltic reference glasses were accurately reproduced by the single-pulse LA–ICP–MS analyses. In conclusion, the single-pulse LA–ICP–MS method provides usable results for the determination of multiple trace elements in geological materials.
Der Mensch - Krone der Schöpfung?
Creators: name: Schenk, Richard
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 21 Nr. 5 (1992): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 21, Heft 5
Inertial non-vacuum states viewed from the Rindler frame
Creators: name: Lochan, Kinjalk
name: Padmanabhan, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The appearance of the inertial vacuum state in Rindler frame has been extensively studied in the literature, both from the point of view of QFT developed using Rindler foliation and using the response of an Unruh-Dewitt Detector (UDD). In comparison, less attention has been devoted to the study of inertial non-vacuum states when viewed from the Rindler frame. We provide a comprehensive study of this issue in this paper. We first present a general formalism describing characterization of an arbitrary inertial state when described using (i) an arbitrary foliation and (ii) the response of UDD moving along an arbitrary trajectory. We use this formalism to explicitly compute the results for the Rindler frame and uniformly accelerated detectors. Any arbitrary inertial state will always have a thermal component in the Rindler frame with additional contributions arising from the non-vacuum nature of the inertial state. We classify the nature of the additional contributions in terms of functions characterizing the inertial state. We establish that for all physically well behaved normalizable inertial states, the correction terms decay with the energy of the Rindler mode so that the high frequency limit is dominated by the thermal noise. However, inertial states which are not strictly normalizable, lead to a constant contribution at all high frequencies in the Rindler frame. A similar behavior arises in the response of the UDD as well. In the case of the detector response, we provide a physical interpretation for the constant contribution at high frequencies in terms of total detection rate of co-moving inertial detectors. We discuss two different approaches for defining a transition rate for the UDD, when the two-point function lacks the time translation invariance and discuss several features of different definitions of transition rates. The implications are discussed.
description: 25 pages
AN ANALYSIS OF MORTALITY CHANGES IN INDIA AND CHINA DUE TO AIR POLLUTION FROM 1990-2019 IN RESPONSE TO URBANIZATION
Creators: name: Egerstrom, Nicole
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Ambient air pollution is the leading environmental risk factor for premature mortality, responsible for about 4.5 million deaths globally in 2019. In many low- and middle-income nations, air pollution impacts on health are worsening. Urbanization may contribute to the growth of air pollution-related deaths by exposing larger populations to severe air pollution. India and China are the two largest nations globally with severe air pollution health issues.  We aim to assess the contribution of several drivers, including urbanization, to changes in deaths attributable to ambient PM2.5 and O¬3, in India and China between 1990 and 2019.  The contributions of drivers were assessed in each five-year period, considering changes in pollutant concentration, population aging, population magnitude, baseline mortality, and population spatial pattern, which is partially an indicator of urbanization. Population aging and population magnitude caused air pollution mortality to increase in both nations, while decreasing baseline mortality rates tended to lessen mortality. Population spatial pattern changes were not seen to be very important in contributing to air pollution mortality compared to other drivers, accounting for 1.31-11.1% of total change in PM2.5 attributed deaths in India, and 1.74-9.78% of total change in PM2.5 attributed deaths in China. Population spatial pattern changes contributed to 0.45-3.17% of total change O3 attributed deaths in India, and 0.11-19.4% of total O3 change attributed deaths in China. In India and China, the urban population grew 85.65% and 154.7%, respectively, faster than the national population growth (66.4% and 23.7%).   Urban areas were found to have 23% higher PM2.5 pollution than the national average in India, 6% higher in China. Urban areas had 10% lower O3 pollution in India, and 1% higher in China. These small differences in urban and national pollutant exposure, along with the pace of urbanization, likely explain the low importance of the population spatial distribution change.