cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Genes Induced Late in Infection Increase Fitness of Vibrio cholerae after Release into the Environment
Creators: name: Camilli, A.
name: Qadri, F.
name: Calderwood, S.B.
name: Schild, S.
name: Nelson, E.J.
name: Tamayo, R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: The facultative pathogen Vibrio cholerae can exist in both the human small bowel and in aquatic environments. While investigation of the infection process has revealed many factors important for pathogenesis, little is known regarding transmission of this or other water-borne pathogens. Using a temporally controlled reporter of transcription, we focus on bacterial gene expression during the late stage of infection and identify a unique class of V. cholerae genes specific to this stage. Mutational analysis revealed limited roles for these genes in infection. However, using a host-to-environment transition assay, we detected roles for six of ten genes examined for the ability of V. cholerae to persist within cholera stool and/or aquatic environments. Furthermore, passage through the intestinal tract was necessary to observe this phenotype. Thus, V. cholerae genes expressed prior to exiting the host intestinal tract are advantageous for subsequent life in aquatic environments.
(3492) Diana Sybelle Breare
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
PilZ domain proteins bind cyclic diguanylate and regulate diverse processes in Vibrio cholerae
Creators: name: Tischler, A.D.
name: Tamayo, R.
name: Camilli, A.
name: Pratt, J.T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Cyclic diguanylate (c-di-GMP) is an allosteric activator and second messenger implicated in the regulation of a variety of biological processes in diverse bacteria. In Vibrio cholerae, c-di-GMP has been shown to inversely regulate biofilm-specific and virulence gene expression, suggesting that c-di-GMP signaling is important for the transition of V. cholerae from the environment to the host. However, the mechanism behind this regulation remains unknown. Recently, it was proposed that the PilZ protein domain represents a c-di-GMP-binding domain. Here we show that V. cholerae PilZ proteins bind c-di-GMP specifically and are involved in the regulation of biofilm formation, motility, and virulence. These findings confirm a role for PilZ proteins as c-di-GMP-sensing proteins within the c-di-GMP signaling network.
title: Joint Invariants of Primitive Homogenous Spaces
Creators: name: Hayes, Illia
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Joint invariants are motivated by the study of congruence problems in Euclidean geometry, where they provide necessary and sufficient conditions for congruence. More recently joint invariants have been used in computer image recognition problems. This thesis develops new methods to compute joint invariants by developing a reduction technique, and applies the reduction to a number of important examples.
title:  La storia e il caso. Il tichismo postmoderno di Richard Rorty
Creators: name: Calcaterra, Rosa Maria
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2016

description: La centralità della categoria temporale del futuro e la preminenza della «conversazione umana» sono gli aspetti basilari della versione rortiana del pensiero democratico americano e della filosofia pragmatista. Nel rinnovare gli assunti di base del migliorismo statunitense, Rorty chiama in causa le consonanza tra il pragmatismo e le istanze anti-fondazionaliste provenienti dall’Europa, in vista di un ripensamento radicale della pratica filosofica. Essa va intesa non più alla stregua di una ricerca dei fondamenti ultimi della realtà ma piuttosto come un impegno edificante basato sul criterio della «Social Hope». In questo quadro, animato dall’intenzione di promuovere una filosofia come critica della cultura, emergono i fattori cruciali dell’etnocentrismo rortiano: il concetto di «final vocabulary» e quello di «ironia». Il pendant etico dell’ironia è rappresentato dal sentimento di solidarietà, vitale interferenza della sfera affettiva e di quella logico-argomentativa. Non si tratta mai semplicemente di saper cogliere la sofferenza dell’altro, ma sempre anche di saper comprendere le sue ragioni. Un intreccio indistricabile, quello tra fattori logici e fattori affettivi, che si ritrova in Peirce, autore poco amato da Rorty. A partire da questo tema si può proporre un confronto tra i due filosofi per ripensare al complesso rapporto tra l’anti-essenzialismo e la definizione di criteri di conoscenza e verità sufficientemente giustificati dall’esperienza della realtà così come dalla cooperazione comunicativa.
description: Modernità nelle Americhe
title: Executive Functioning and Brain Activation in Young Monolingual and Bilingual Children: An fNIRS Study
Creators: name: Cook, Matthew L.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: Over the past 40 years, the prevalence of bilingualism in the United States has increased. As bilingualism is increasing, it is important to examine potential benefits or drawbacks that early household bilingual exposure has on child development and how bilingualism may facilitate those benefits or drawbacks. This study included 5 monolingual and 6 bilingual children and compared differences in brain activation location and executive functioning skills. Results from this project show a trend of activation differences where the monolingual children had less activation of the middle area of the prefrontal cortex while there was similar activation in both the left and right side of the prefrontal cortex for both groups. Also shown is a pattern of better performance on the executive functioning tasks for the bilingual group. This could potentially be explained by the greater use of that middle area of the prefrontal cortex for the bilingual group compared to the monolingual group. The implications of this project suggest that there may be differences in abilities between bilingual and monolingual children and warrant further exploration of these trends.
Optomechanically induced transparency of x-rays via optical control
Creators: name: Liao, Wen-Te
name: Pálffy, Adriana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The search for new control methods over light-matter interactions is one of the engines that advances fundamental physics and applied science alike. A specific class of light-matter interaction interfaces are setups coupling photons of distinct frequencies via matter. Such devices, nontrivial in design, could be endowed with multifunctional tasking. Here we envisage for the first time an optomechanical system that bridges optical and robust, high-frequency x-ray photons, which are otherwise notoriously difficult to control. The x-ray-optical system comprises of an optomechanical cavity and a movable microlever interacting with an optical laser and with x-rays via resonant nuclear scattering. We show that optomechanically induced transparency of a broad range of photons (10 eV-100 keV) is achievable in this setup, allowing to tune nuclear x-ray absorption spectra via optomechanical control. This paves ways for metrology applications, e.g., the detection of the $^{229}$Thorium clock transition, and an unprecedentedly precise control of x-rays using optical photons.
description: 2 figures, supplementary material available with the files
title:  Europa, America e Asia nell’interpretazione weberiana del capitalismo moderno: nuove critiche e prospettive analitiche
Creators: name: Cotesta, Vittorio
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2016

description: Nelle scienze sociali occupa ancora un ruolo centrale il pensiero di Max Weber sulle origini e i tratti della modernità. Le critiche formulate da filosofi e sociologi di civiltà non occidentali alla teoria weberiana della modernità hanno reso però necessario approfondire alcuni suoi aspetti. In particolare, è stato abbandonato il concetto di unicità della modernità e di ‘eccezionalità’ della modernità europea e occidentale. Il mondo contemporaneo è segnato invece dalla presenza di processi di modernizzazione molteplici, che coniugano in forme diverse le proprie tradizioni culturali con i tratti generali della modernità. Il saggio traccerà dunque la storia del rapporto fra modernità euro-americana e modernità asiatiche, cinese in particolare; grande importanza sarà accordata alla complessità degli scenari geoeconomici e politico-culturali in cui ciascuna realtà è stata negoziata nel tempo.
description: Modernità nelle Americhe
title: Analysis of Optically Transparent Antennas Designed from Different Transparent Conductors
Creators: name: Hasan, Rakib
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: This master’s thesis work presents an investigative study about the performance of transparent antennas. The antennas have been fabricated using two advanced transparent conductive films (TCF) namely Nano-C Hybrid and Silver-Nanowire (AgNW). Nano-C Hybrid is a new transparent conductive film which combines thin conductors like Carbon Nanotube and Silver Nanowire. The antennas made from Nano-C Hybrid and AgNW are of monopole types and are mounted on a ground plane made out of a printed circuit board and the antennas are excited using an SMA connector through that printed circuit board. Simulation works have been performed to find out the optimum length-to-width ratio for the monopoles so that they can be used to design an antenna that radiates at the desired frequency. It has been found that the length needs to be 1.25 times higher than the width of the monopole in order to reduce the loss resistance of the designed antenna. The antennas can operate in a wide range of frequencies, but performance varies marginally based on the material that has been used to fabricate them. The tested transparent antennas have shown promising results which prove that these transparent films can be considered as viable antenna design materials for various applications such as wireless communication technology. Simulation and experimental measurements indicate the gain of the transparent antennas is enhanced by widening and stacking the TCFs. There is a trade-off between the efficiency of the antenna and the transparency as stacking the TCFs reduces the transparency. Among the two transparent conductive materials tested during this research, the comparatively new material, Nano-C Hybrid, proves to be a potential competitor against commercially used Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) and AgNW in terms of transparency, conductivity, power handling capability, and usability.
XMM-Newton and Suzaku X-ray Shadowing Measurements of the Solar Wind Charge Exchange, Local Bubble, and Galactic Halo Emission
Creators: name: Henley, David B.
name: Shelton, Robin L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present results from a sample of XMM-Newton and Suzaku observations of interstellar clouds that cast shadows in the soft X-ray background (SXRB) - the first uniform analysis of such a sample from these missions. By fitting to the on- and off-shadow spectra, we separated the foreground and Galactic halo components of the SXRB. We tested different foreground models - two solar wind charge exchange (SWCX) models and a Local Bubble (LB) model. We also examined different abundance tables. We found that Anders & Grevesse (1989) abundances, commonly used in previous SXRB studies, may result in overestimated foreground brightnesses and halo temperatures. We also found that assuming a single solar wind ionization temperature for a SWCX model can lead to unreliable results. We compared our measurements of the foreground emission with predictions of the SWCX emission from a smooth solar wind, finding only partial agreement. Using available observation-specific SWCX predictions and various plausible assumptions, we placed an upper limit on the LB's OVII intensity of ~0.8 photons/cm^2/s/sr (90% confidence). Comparing the halo results obtained with SWCX and LB foreground models implies that, if the foreground is dominated by SWCX and is brighter than ~1.5e-12 erg/cm^2/s/deg^2 (0.4-1.0 keV), then using an LB foreground model may bias the halo temperature upward and the 0.5-2.0 keV surface brightness downward by ~(0.2-0.3)e6 K and ~(1-2)e-12 erg/cm^2/s/deg^2, respectively. Similarly, comparing results from different observatories implies that there may be uncertainties in the halo temperature and surface brightness of up to ~0.2e6 K and ~25%, respectively, in addition to the statistical uncertainties. These uncertainties or biases may limit the ability of X-ray measurements to discriminate between Galactic halo models.
description: 28 pages, 16 figures. Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
The EAL domain protein VieA is a cyclic diguanylate phosphodiesterase
Creators: name: Tischler, A.D.
name: Camilli, A.
name: Tamayo, R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: The newly recognized bacterial second messenger 3′,5′-cyclic diguanylic acid (cyclic diguanylate (c-di-GMP)) has been shown to regulate a wide variety of bacterial behaviors and traits. Biosynthesis and degradation of c-di-GMP have been attributed to the GGDEF and EAL protein domains, respectively, based primarily on genetic evidence. Whereas the GGDEF domain was demonstrated to possess diguanylate cyclase activity in vitro, the EAL domain has not been tested directly for c-di-GMP phosphodiesterase activity. This study describes the analysis of c-di-GMP hydrolysis by an EAL domain protein in a purified system. The Vibrio cholerae EAL domain protein VieA has been shown to inversely regulate biofilm-specific genes (vps) and virulence genes (ctxA), presumably by decreasing the cellular pool of c-di-GMP. VieA was maximally active at neutral pH, physiological ionic strength, and ambient temperatures and demonstrated c-di-GMP hydrolytic activity with a K m of 0.06 μM. VieA was unable to hydrolyze cGMP. The putative metal coordination site of the EAL domain, Glu 170, was demonstrated to be necessary for VieA activity. Furthermore, the divalent cations Mg 2+ and Mn 2+ were necessary for VieA activity; conversely, Ca 2+ and Zn 2+ were potent inhibitors of the VieA phosphodiesterase. Calcium inhibition of the VieA EAL domain provides a potential mechanism for regulation of c-di-GMP degradation.
(3494) Dorothy Hack
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Neighborhood environment, social cohesion, and epigenetic aging
Creators: name: Dhingra, R.
name: Aiello, A.E.
name: Galea, S.
name: Martin, C.L.
name: Uddin, M.
name: Ward-Caviness, C.K.
name: Wildman, D.E.
name: Koenen, K.C.
name: Zikry, T.M.
Publisher: name: Impact Journals LLC
Year: 2021

description: Living in adverse neighborhood environments has been linked to risk of aging-related diseases and mortality; however, the biological mechanisms explaining this observation remain poorly understood. DNA methylation (DNAm), a proposed mechanism and biomarker of biological aging responsive to environmental stressors, offers promising insight into potential molecular pathways. We examined associations between three neighborhood social environment measures (poverty, quality, and social cohesion) and three epigenetic clocks (Horvath, Hannum, and PhenoAge) using data from the Detroit Neighborhood Health Study (n=158). Using linear regression models, we evaluated associations in the total sample and stratified by sex and social cohesion. Neighborhood quality was associated with accelerated DNAm aging for Horvath age acceleration (β = 1.8; 95% CI: 0.4, 3.1), Hannum age acceleration (β = 1.7; 95% CI: 0.4, 3.0), and PhenoAge acceleration (0 = 2.1; 95% CI: 0.4, 3.8). In models stratified on social cohesion, associations of neighborhood poverty and quality with accelerated DNAm aging remained elevated for residents living in neighborhoods with lower social cohesion, but were null for those living in neighborhoods with higher social cohesion. Our study suggests that living in adverse neighborhood environments can speed up epigenetic aging, while positive neighborhood attributes may buffer effects.
Maternal pre-pregnancy obesity, offspring cord blood DNA methylation, and offspring cardiometabolic health in early childhood: an epigenome-wide association study
Creators: name: Collier, D.
name: Skaar, D.
name: Hoyo, C.
name: McCullough, L.E.
name: Murphy, S.K.
name: Martin, C.L.
name: Cowley, M.
name: Gowdy, K.M.
name: Maguire, R.L.
name: Park, S.S.
name: Fuemmeler, B.
name: Relton, C.L.,
name: Sharp, G.C.
name: Jima, D.
Publisher: name: Taylor and Francis Inc.
Year: 2019

description: Pre-pregnancy obesity is an established risk factor for adverse sex-specific cardiometabolic health in offspring. Epigenetic alterations, such as in DNA methylation (DNAm), are a hypothesized link; however, sex-specific epigenomic targets remain unclear. Leveraging data from the Newborn Epigenetics Study (NEST) cohort, linear regression models were used to identify CpG sites in cord blood leukocytes associated with pre-pregnancy obesity in 187 mother-female and 173 mother-male offsprings. DNAm in cord blood was measured using the Illumina HumanMethylation450k BeadChip. Replication analysis was conducted among the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) cohort. Associations between pre-pregnancy obesity-associated CpG sites and offspring BMI z-score (BMIz) and blood pressure (BP) percentiles at 4–5-years of age were also examined. Maternal pre-pregnacy obesity was associated with 876 CpGs in female and 293 CpGs in male offspring (false discovery rate <5%). Among female offspring, 57 CpG sites, including the top 18, mapped to the TAPBP gene (range of effect estimates: −0.83% decrease to 4.02% increase in methylation). CpG methylation differences in the TAPBP gene were also observed among males (range of effect estimates: −0.30% decrease to 2.59% increase in methylation). While technically validated, none of the TAPBP CpG sites were replicated in ALSPAC. In NEST, methylation differences at CpG sites of the TAPBP gene were associated with BMI z-score (cg23922433 and cg17621507) and systolic BP percentile (cg06230948) in female and systolic (cg06230948) and diastolic (cg03780271) BP percentile in male offspring. Together, these findings suggest sex-specific effects, which, if causal, may explain observed sex-specific effects of maternal obesity.
Brain Tumor Segmentation: A Comparative Analysis
Creators: name: Qadar, Muhammad Ali
name: Zhaowen, Yan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Five different threshold segmentation based approaches have been reviewed and compared over here to extract the tumor from set of brain images. This research focuses on the analysis of image segmentation methods, a comparison of five semi-automated methods have been undertaken for evaluating their relative performance in the segmentation of tumor. Consequently, results are compared on the basis of quantitative and qualitative analysis of respective methods. The purpose of this study was to analytically identify the methods, most suitable for application for a particular genre of problems. The results show that of the region growing segmentation performed better than rest in most cases.
description: 8 Pages, 8 Figues, International Journal of Computer Science (IJCSI)
Maternal lipid levels during pregnancy and child weight status at 3 years of age
Creators: name: Martin, C.L.
name: Vladutiu, C.J.
name: Zikry, T.M.
name: Grace, M.R.
name: Siega-Riz, A.M.
Publisher: name: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Year: 2019

description: Background: The intrauterine environment is critical in the development of child obesity. Objective: To investigate the association between maternal lipid levels during pregnancy and child weight status. Methods: Maternal lipid levels (total cholesterol, high-density and low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, triglycerides) collected from fasting blood samples collected at less than 20 and 24–29 weeks' gestation and child weight status at age 3 were examined prospectively among 183 mother-child dyads enrolled in the Pregnancy, Infection, and Nutrition. Measured height and weight at 3 years were used to calculate age- and sex-specific body mass index z-scores. Child risk of overweight/obesity was defined as body mass index greater than or equal to 85th percentile for age and sex. Regression models estimated the association between maternal lipid levels and child body mass index z-score and risk of being affected by overweight/obesity, respectively. Results: Higher triglyceride levels at less than 20 and 24–29 weeks of pregnancy were associated with higher body mass index z-scores (β = 0.23; 95% CI: 0.07-0.38 and β = 0.15; 95% CI: 0.01-0.29; respectively) after adjusting for confounders. There was no evidence of an association between total or low-density lipoprotein cholesterol and child weight status at age 3. Conclusions: Early childhood body mass index may be influenced by maternal triglyceride levels during pregnancy.
What matters most - what parents model or what parents eat?
Creators: name: Martin, C.L.
name: Vaughn, A.E.
name: Ward, D.S.
Publisher: name: Academic Press
Year: 2018

description: however, researchers struggle to identify which food parenting practices to recommend. This study examined the influence of parents modeling of healthy eating (“parent role modeling”) and parents’ actual food intake (“parent dietary intake”) on child diet quality, and explored whether these practices work together to influence children's diets. Methods: Baseline data from a larger intervention trial were used for this analysis. The sample included parents of preschool-age children from households with at least one overweight parent. The Comprehensive Feeding Practices Questionnaire was used to assess parent modeling of healthy eating (“healthy modeling”). Three days of dietary recalls were used to collect parents’ report of their own intake and their children's intake (excluding food at child care). Associations between parent healthy modeling and parent intake of healthy and unhealthy foods were explored using Pearson correlations. Associations between parent healthy modeling and parent Healthy Eating Index (HEI) score on child HEI score were examined with linear regression. Additionally, the interaction between parent healthy modeling and HEI score on child HEI score was tested. Results: Parent healthy modeling was significantly correlated with parent intake of healthy foodsLinear regression showed a significant association between parent modeling and child HEI score, even after controlling for parent diet (β = 3.08, SE = 0.87, p < 0.001). Children whose parents had high parent healthy modeling scores had higher HEI scores (mean = 61.5 ± 10.4) regardless of parent HEI score. We did not find evidence that parent healthy modeling and diet quality interact to influence child diet quality. Conclusions: Parents’ healthy modeling is an important practice in influencing children's diet quality, possibly more so than the quality of parents’ diets.
description: Purpose: Parents have a strong influence on their children's eating habits
A 125 GeV Fat Higgs at large $\tan β$
Creators: name: Menon, Arjun
name: Raj, Nirmal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
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 study the viability of regions of large $\tan β$ within the framework of Fat Higgs/$λ$-SUSY Models. We compute the one-loop effective potential to find the corrections to the Higgs boson mass due to the heavy non-standard Higgs bosons. As the tree level contribution to the Higgs boson mass is suppressed at large $\tan β$, these one-loop corrections are crucial to raising the Higgs boson mass to the measured LHC value. By raising the Higgsino and singlino mass parameters, typical electroweak precision constraints can also be avoided. We illustrate these new regions of Fat Higgs/$λ$-SUSY parameter space by finding regions of large $\tan β$ that are consistent with all experimental constraints including direct dark matter detection experiments, relic density limits and the invisible decay width of the $Z$ boson. We find that there exist regions around $λ= 1.25, \tan β= 50$ and a uniform psuedo-scalar $4~{\rm TeV} \lsim M_A \lsim 8$~TeV which are consistent will all present phenomenological constraints. In this region the dark matter relic abundance and direct detection limits are satisfied by a lightest neutralino that is mostly bino or singlino. As an interesting aside we also find a region of low $\tan β$ and small singlino mass parameter where a well-tempered neutralino avoids all cosmological and direct detection constraints.
description: 35 pages, 15 figures
(3495) Stephen Coty Boundy
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Nonadherence to daily self-weighing and activity tracking is associated with weight fluctuations among african American breast cancer survivors
Creators: name: Valle, C.G.
name: Martin, C.L.
name: Tate, D.F.
Publisher: name: Public Library of Science
Year: 2018

description: Introduction Daily self-weighing (DSW) and daily activity tracking (DAT) are useful strategies for preventing weight gain among African American breast cancer survivors. However, self-monitoring behaviors vary over time, increasing risk of weight gain. This study explored the association of nonadherence to DSW and DAT with corresponding weight fluctuations among African American breast cancer survivors. Methods Using data from a 6-month randomized controlled trial, we conducted a secondary data analysis among women randomized into a DSW group (n = 13) and a DSW+DAT group (n = 11). DSW and DAT were captured from wireless scale and activity tracker data. Nonadherence to DSW was defined as one or more days without a weight measurement, and nonadherence to DAT was defined as one or more days without activity tracking. Generalized estimating equations were used to examine weight fluctuations in relation to nonadherence to DSW and DAT. Data analysis occurred from September 2016-April 2017. Results Over the 6-month study period, women provided 119.2 ± 46.0 weight measurements and 121.9 ± 53.2 days of physical activity tracking. Nonadherence to DSW was associated with weight fluctuations. For every 1-day increase in nonadherence to DSW, weight increased by 0.031 kg (95% CI: 0.012, 0.050; p<0.01). Additionally, during periods of DSW and DAT weight decreased by 0.028 kg (95% CI: -0.042, -0.014; p<0.001) and 0.017 kg (95% CI: -0.030; -0.004) respectively.
Acculturation Influences Postpartum Eating, Activity, and Weight Retention in Low-Income Hispanic Women
Creators: name: Schaffner, A.
name: Martin, C.L.
name: Tate, D.F.
name: Hagobian, T.
name: Hatley, K.E.
name: Pomeroy, J.
name: Diamond, M.
name: Sanchez, T.
name: Munoz-Christian, K.
name: Mercado, A.
name: Phelan, S.
name: Brannen, A.
Publisher: name: Mary Ann Liebert Inc.
Year: 2017

description: Background: Low-income Hispanic women experience elevated rates of high postpartum weight retention (PPWR), which is an independent risk factor for lifetime obesity. Sociocultural factors might play an important role among Hispanic women; however, very few studies have examined this association. Objective: The purpose of our study was to examine the associations between acculturation and maternal diet, physical activity, and PPWR. Design: This is a cross-sectional study of baseline data from 282 Hispanic women participating in the FitMoms/Mamás Activas study, a randomized controlled trial examining the impact of primarily an internet-based weight control program, in reducing PPWR among low-income women. We performed multivariable linear regression to examine the association of acculturation with diet quality, physical activity, and PPWR at study entry. Results: A total of 213 (76%) women had acculturation scores reflecting Mexican orientation or bicultural orientation, whereas 69 (24%) had scores that represented assimilation to Anglo culture. Women who were more acculturated had lower intakes of fruits and vegetables, lower HEI scores, and lower physical activity levels than women who were less acculturated (p < 0.05). We found an association between acculturation and PPWR in that for every 1-unit increase in acculturation score, PPWR increased, on average, by 0.80 kg. Conclusion: Higher acculturation was associated with poorer diet and physical activity behaviors and greater PPWR.
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(3491) Brenda Ackrill Masefield
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
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HARUKI MURAKAMI

Número de páginas: 248

Idioma: CASTELLANO

Formatos: Pdf, ePub, MOBI, FB2

ISBN: 9788483102169

Editorial: TUSQUETS EDITORES

Año de edición: 2002

 

 

 

 

 

Foro de descarga de libros de texto. SPUTNIK, MI AMOR de HARUKI MURAKAMI 9788483102169 (Spanish Edition) FB2

 

Overview

Cuando en mayo de 2001 presentamos a los lectores en lengua española la monumental novela Crónica del pájaro que da cuerda al mundo, sabíamos que muchos sucumbirían a la magia de la escritura del japonés Haruki Murakami, de modo que decidimos, a partir de entonces, seguir su trayectoria literaria; por eso publicamos ahora Sputnik, mi amor, su novela más reciente, e iremos editando sus anteriores obras. Traducido, homenajeado y leído en el mundo entero, Murakami también merece darse a conocer definitivamente en España. Perdidos en la inmensa metrópoli de Tokio, tres personas se buscan desesperadamente intentando romper el eterno viaje circular de la soledad; un viaje parecido al del satélite ruso Sputnik, donde la perra Laika giraba alrededor de la Tierra y dirigía su atónita mirada hacia el espacio infinito. El narrador, un joven profesor de primaria, está enamorado de Sumire, a quien conoció en la universidad. Pero Sumire tiene una única obsesión: ser novelista; además se considera la última rebelde, viste como un muchacho, fuma como un carretero y rechaza toda convención moral. Un buen día, Sumire conoce a Myû en una boda, una mujer casada de mediana edad tan hermosa como enigmática, y se enamora apasionadamente de ella. Myû contrata a Sumire como secretaria y juntas emprenden un viaje de negocios por Europa que tendrá un enigmático final.
Changes in rates and content of primary care visits within an evolving health care system
Creators: name: Pathman, D.E.
Publisher: name: Annals of Family Medicine, Inc
Year: 2019

description: It is no secret to patients and clinicians that the past decade has brought many changes to the organization, operations, and financing of health care in the United States. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) expanded the number of insured and otherwise reduced costs as a barrier to care, bolstered federal safety net programs, and promoted coverage of preventive services and wellness programs. The advent of the patient-centered medical home and primary care practice redesign has broadened services provided both during and between office visits through care teams that can include health coaches, panel managers, patient navigators, and care coordinators. Electronic medical records (EMRs) have become central to patient care, supporting chronic disease and preventive care management, promoting quality of care for set metrics, and providing new ways for patients, staff, and physicians to communicate. Institutional reorganization and new financing models now have most physicians working in practices that have contracted with accountable care organizations (ACOs) and other value-based payment arrangements, becoming responsible for the health and care of a growing 10% of the US population. Care previously received from standalone outpatient practices and siloed hospitals is now often received through regional integrated health care systems, with their centralized management, standardized protocols, and growing incentives for patients and clinicians. For the first time, fewer than one-half of physicians work in practices they own.
Mottness at finite doping and charge-instabilities in cuprates
Creators: name: Peli, Simone
name: Conte, Stefano Dal
name: Comin, Riccardo
name: Nembrini, Nicola
name: Ronchi, Andrea
name: Abrami, Paolo
name: Banfi, Francesco
name: Ferrini, Gabriele
name: Brida, Daniele
name: Lupi, Stefano
name: Fabrizio, Michele
name: Damascelli, Andrea
name: Capone, Massimo
name: Cerullo, Giulio
name: Giannetti, Claudio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The intrinsic instability of underdoped copper oxides towards inhomogeneous states is one of the central puzzles of the physics of correlated materials. The influence of the Mott physics on the doping-temperature phase diagram of copper oxides represents a major issue that is subject of intense theoretical and experimental effort. Here, we investigate the ultrafast electron dynamics in prototypical single-layer Bi-based cuprates at the energy scale of the O-2p$\rightarrow$Cu-3d charge-transfer (CT) process. We demonstrate a clear evolution of the CT excitations from incoherent and localized, as in a Mott insulator, to coherent and delocalized, as in a conventional metal. This reorganization of the high-energy degrees of freedom occurs at the critical doping p$_{cr}\simeq$0.16 irrespective of the temperature, and it can be well described by dynamical mean field theory calculations. We argue that the onset of the low-temperature charge instabilities is the low-energy manifestation of the underlying Mottness that characterizes the p
Are Bias, Harassment, and Discrimination by Physician-Peers a Reason Why Some Physicians Leave Rural Communities?
Creators: name: Pathman, D.E.
Publisher: name: American Medical Association
Year: 2019

description: The challenges of recruiting and, separately, retaining primary care physicians in rural and underserved settings are long-standing, but many of the fundamental factors, forces, and remedies are understood. Primary care physicians are generally drawn (recruited) to rural communities for the lifestyle, the beauty of the countryside and its outdoor activities, and the closeness of the people, in addition to the style of practice and professional challenges there. Many grew up in rural communities, but just as many simply prefer what these communities offer. Many have a personal drive to work in communities with a clear medical need and where the impact of their life’s work can be readily felt. The community, its people, the general feel of the place, and the intimate size of a rural practice and a rural medical community are principal draws.
title: Initial Development and Validation of a New Measure of Students' Social-Emotial Competencies
Creators: name: Vinal, Stephanie A.
Publisher: name: Utah State University
Year: 2022

description: In order to support student success, schools and researchers are targeting non-academic skills, termed social-emotional learning. Social-emotional learning (SEL) represents the process by which students develop critical thinking and problem-solving skills, establish healthy and positive relationships, and identify as well as regulate emotions. Research shows SEL interventions are effective in decreasing student problems (e.g., anxiety, depression, low motivation; Barry et al., 2015; Corcoran, et al., 2018; Durlak et al., 2011; Weare & Nind, 2011) and increasing positive student outcomes (e.g., academic success, personal growth; Merrell, 2010; Zins et al., 2007). Although SEL is gaining popularity among practitioners and researchers, there is minimal research that ascertains the accuracy and meaningfulness of the constructs included within the SEL framework, with notable gaps in the areas of psychometrically sound assessment and measurement tools of SEL competencies (Denham, 2015, Ross & Tolan, 2018). This purpose of this present project was to conduct the initial development and validation of a teacher-report scale of SEL competencies aligned to the CASEL’s five-factor model of SEL competencies.
A sample of 18 elementary school teachers completed the pilot measure and two additional measures of student wellbeing and behavioral challenges. Observed scores from the resulting SSECTRS model also showed relatively normally distributed scales with strong internal consistency reliability. Expected relationships were found between the teacher reports of wellbeing (SWTRS) and mental health measures (SDQ) with the SSECTRS. The SSECTRS yielded convergent validity, positive correlations between wellbeing indicators of the SWTRS, and the one subscale of positive wellbeing of the SDQ and divergent validity, negative correlations with the SDQ.
To reflect the school-bound context of this measure, it is captured as the Student Social-Emotional Competency Teacher Rating Scale (SSECTRS) containing to independent domains; “Community Competencies” (Factor 1) and “Personal Identity” (Factor 2). The initial validation of the SSECTRS provides preliminary support for its use as a brief assessment tool that may be useful for screening and progress monitoring purposes to evaluate SEL competencies in schools. Ultimately, participants will learn how they might use and interpret scores from the SSECTRS to support SEL implementation in schools.
Satisfaction of the primary care, mental health, and dental health clinicians of the national health service corps loan repayment program
Creators: name: Rauner, T.
name: Pathman, D.E.
name: Fannell, J.
name: Sewell, R.G.
name: Konrad, T.R.
Publisher: name: Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2019

description: The National Health Service Corps (NHSC) aims to foster a positive service experience for its clinicians to promote long- term retention. We assess the satisfaction of primary care, dental, and mental health clinicians in the NHSC’s Loan Repayment Program (LRP). Survey data are from 1,193 clinicians (72.4% response) who completed NHSC LRP contracts in 16 states from July 2015 through December 2016. Eighty-one percent reported overall satisfaction with their work and practice, without differences across disciplines. Nearly 95% were satisfied with the mission and patients of their practices. Fewer clinicians were satisfied with compensation (51%) and time demands of work (36%). Ninety- four percent reported the NHSC experience met or exceeded their expectations, and 94% recommend the NHSC LRP to others. In summary, the NHSC LRP experience is generally positive for clinicians of all disciplines. Clinicians’ issues with their incomes and with the time demands of their work deserve attention from the NHSC.
Age, growth and survival rate in two populations of Darevskia derjugini (Nikolsky, 1898) from different altitudes (Squamata: Sauria: Lacertidae)
Creators: name: Altunışık, Abdullah
name: Eksilmez Eksilmez
Publisher: name: Brill Online
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 60299 Ecology not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: We investigated age structure, age at sexual maturity, lifespan, growth and survival rate and adult life expectancy (as demographic life-history traits) as well as body size of two Darevskia derjugini (Artvin lizard) populations from different altitudes, using skeletochronology. Our findings indicated that age upon attaining sexual maturity was two or three years in the low-altitude population (Fındıklı) while it was three years in the high-altitude population (Murgul) for both sexes. The maximum longevity was seven years in the high-elevation site while it was six years in the low-elevation site. As reported for many lizards, we found a significant positive relationship between age and body size within each sex of Artvin lizard at both altitudes. High- and low-altitude populations did not differ in age structure, survival rates, adult life expectancy and body size. Rather than the effect of altitude, which is hard to compare without replication of other low and high altitude populations, the fact that these two populations have similar growth rates and the similarity of local conditions (food availability and predator density) may explain the similarity between the two regions.
Generalized communities in networks
Creators: name: Newman, M. E. J.
name: Peixoto, Tiago P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A substantial volume of research has been devoted to studies of community structure in networks, but communities are not the only possible form of large-scale network structure. Here we describe a broad extension of community structure that encompasses traditional communities but includes a wide range of generalized structural patterns as well. We describe a principled method for detecting this generalized structure in empirical network data and demonstrate with real-world examples how it can be used to learn new things about the shape and meaning of networks.
description: 5 pages, 1 figure
(3493) Viva Ellen Breare
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

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