cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Magnetic droplets in a metal close to a ferromagnetic quantum critical point
Creators: name: Loh, Y. L.
name: Tripathi, V.
name: Turlakov, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using analytical and path integral Monte Carlo methods, we study the susceptibility $χ_{dc}(T)$ of a spin-S impurity with XY rotational symmetry embedded in a metal. Close to a ferromagnetic quantum critical point, the impurity polarizes conduction electrons in its vicinity and forms a large magnetic droplet with moment M>>S. At not too low temperatures, the strongly damping paramagnon modes of the conduction electrons suppress large quantum fluctuations (or spin flips) of this droplet. We show that the susceptibility follows the law $χ_{dc}(T)=(M^{2}/T)[1-(πg)^{-1}\ln(gE_{0}/T)]$, where the parameter g>>1 describes the strong damping by conduction electrons, and E_0 is the bandwidth of paramagnon modes. At exponentially low temperatures T << T_{*} ~ E_{0}\exp(-πg/2) we show that spin flips cannot be ignored. In this regime we find that $χ_{dc}(T) \approx χ_{dc}(0) [1-(2/3)(T/T_{*})^2]$, where $χ_{dc}(0)\sim M^{2}/T_{*}$ is finite and exponentially large in g. We also discuss these effects in the context of the multi-channel Kondo impurity model.
Additional file 1 of From an electrophoretic mobility shift assay to isolated transcription factors: a fast genomic-proteomic approach
Creators: name: Mach-Aigner, Astrid R
name: Grosstessner-Hain, Karin
name: Poças-Fonseca, Marcio J
name: Mechtler, Karl
name: Mach, Robert L
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1:List of H. jecorina proteins identified by tandem MS analysis. The corresponding proteomic data are available at the publically available database https://proteomecommons.org/ . (PDF 43 KB)
Quantum dynamics of Phi**4 field theory beyond leading order in 1+1 dimensions
Creators: name: Baacke, Jurgen
name: Heinen, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider the out-of-equilibrium evolution of a classical condensate field $ϕ=$ and its quantum fluctuations for a $Φ^4$ model in 1+1 dimensions with a double well potential. We use the two-particle point-irreducible (2PPI) formalism in the two-loop approximation. We compare our results to those obtained in the Hartree approximation, in the bare vertex approximation (BVA) and in the two-particle irreducible next-to-leading order large-N (2PI-1/N) approach, with thermal initial conditions. In the 2PPI scheme we find that the system tends to the symmetric configuration at late times, as expected in the absence of spontaneous symmetry breaking.
description: 4 pages, 8 encapsulated postscript figures
A Structural Approach to Disentangling Speculative and Fundamental Influences on the Price of Corn
Creators: name: Etienne, Xiaoli L.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Etienne, Xiaoli L.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: Corn prices experienced enormous volatility over the last decade. In this paper, we apply a structural vector autoregression model to quantify the relative importance of various contributing factors in driving corn price movements. The identification of structural parameters is achieved through a data-determined approach—the PC algorithm of Directed Acyclic Graphs. We find that, in general, unexpected shocks in aggregate global demand and speculative trading activities do not have a statistically significant effect on corn price movements. By contrast, shocks in the crude oil market have large immediate effects that persist in the long-run. The forecast error variance decomposition suggest that at the two-year horizon, variations in crude oil prices account for over 50% of the total corn forecast error variances. We also find that, consistent with theory, unexpected shocks in market-specific fundamentals also have large negative effects on price movements. In addition, unexpected residual shocks play an important role in corn price movement, especially in the short-run.
Order-parameter fluctuations in Ising spin glasses at low temperatures
Creators: name: Palassini, Matteo
name: Sales, Marta
name: Ritort, Felix
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a numerical study of the order-parameter fluctuations for Ising spin glasses in three and four dimensions at very low temperatures and without an external field. Accurate measurements of two previously introduced parameters, A and G, show that the order parameter is not self-averaging, consistent with a zero-temperature thermal exponent value θ' \simeq 0, and confirm the validity of the relation G=1/3 in the thermodynamic limit in the whole low-temperature phase, as predicted by stochastic stability arguments.
description: 7 pages, 7 eps figures, RevTex
Forecasting of Futures Prices: Using One Commodity to Help Forecast Another
Creators: name: Li, Anzhi
name: Dorfman, Jeffrey H.
name: Li, Anzhi
name: Dorfman, Jeffrey H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: Managers of businesses that involve agricultural commodities need price forecasts in order to manage the risk in either the sale or purchase of agricultural commodities. This paper examines whether commodity price forecasting model performance can be improved by the inclusion of price forecasts for other commodities within the model specification. We estimate 760 dfferent models to forecast the prices of hog, cattle, corn, and soybean and find strong support for the inclusion of other commodity price forecasts in the best forecasting models. Unfortunately, the out-of-sample performance of these models is mixed at best. Still, the results suggest more work is called for to determine how best to use other commodity price forecasts to improve forecasting performance.
Neutron pairing with medium polarization beyond the Landau approximation
Creators: name: Urban, M.
name: Ramanan, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit the long-standing problem of the superfluid transition temperature $T_c$ in dilute neutron matter. It is well known that $T_c$ is strongly affected by medium polarization effects (screening) which modify the pairing interaction in the medium. We study these effects within the random-phase approximation (RPA). It turns out that the widely used Landau approximation is sufficient only at densities below about 0.002 fm$^{-3}$. At higher densities, the full RPA leads to stronger screening than the Landau approximation.
description: 12 pages, 7 figures
The nature of X-ray selected EROs
Creators: name: Stevens, J. A.
name: Page, M. J.
name: Ivison, R. J.
name: Smail, Ian
name: Lehmann, I.
name: Hasinger, G.
name: Szokoly, G.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on the X-ray, optical, near-infrared, submillimetre and radio properties of five Extremely Red Objects (EROs) selected at X-ray wavelengths by XMM-Newton in the Lockman Hole field. They all have enough counts in the X-ray band to allow spectral fitting: four are most probably obscured, Compton-thin AGN with redshift dependent absorbing column densities of 10^22 - 10^24 cm-2, whilst the fifth is best fitted by a thermal spectrum and is likely to be a massive elliptical galaxy in a deep gravitational potential. Their optical/near-infrared colours and sizes suggest that X-ray selected EROs comprise a mixture of dusty 'starburst' galaxies and non-dusty galaxies that are dominated by either star-light or light from an active nucleus. The colour diagnostics are supported by the submillimetre and radio data: the two AGN with 'starburst' colours have submillimetre or radio flux densities that imply large star-formation rates, whilst those with 'elliptical' colours do not. The one source detected in the submillimetre waveband has narrow emission lines at a redshift of 1.45. Although the bulk of its radio emission originates from processes other than star formation, it is most probably a radio-quiet ultraluminous infrared galaxy.
description: MNRAS, in press, 10 pages, 7 figures
Palliocystidium oberwinkleri Ordynets & G. Gruhn 2025, comb. nov.
Creators: name: Ordynets, Alexander
name: Gruhn, Gérald
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Basidiomycota
Agaricomycetes
Trechisporales
Hydnodontaceae
Palliocystidium
Palliocystidium oberwinkleri

description: Palliocystidium oberwinkleri (Ordynets, Riebesehl & K. H. Larss.) Ordynets & G. Gruhn comb. nov.
Fig. 1 A
Subulicystidium oberwinkleri Ordynets, Riebesehl & K. H. Larss. in Ordynets, Scherf, Pansegrau, Denecke, Lysenko, Larsson & Langer, MycoKeys 35: 56. 2018 (Ordynets et al. 2018)
Type
FRANCE – La Réunion • Saint-Pierre: Saint-Philippe, Forêt de Mare Longue; 495 m; 21°20’37.68”S, 55°44’27.6”E [coordinates originally provided in decimal form -21.3438, 55.7410]; on dead woody branch; 28 Mar. 2015; J. Riebesehl leg.; holotype: FR; isotype: KAS [L 1860].
description: Published as part of Ordynets, Alexander & Gruhn, Gérald, 2025, Palliocystidium, a new genus in the family Hydnodontaceae (Trechisporales), pp. 135-154 in Plant Ecology and Evolution 158 (1) on pages 135-154, DOI: 10.5091/plecevo.128682
Using Evidence-Based Interventions to Improve the Completion Rates of Advance Care Directives
Creators: name: Sohrabi, Fariba
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2024

Background: Advance care directives reduce unnecessary suffering, improve life quality, and further engage patients and families in the decision-making process to ensure that end-of-life care preferences are considered and applied. Despite the proven benefits of advance care directives, advance directives completion rates are approximately 33% in the United States. Purpose: The purpose of this quality improvement project was to increase advance directive completion rates among patients at one clinic through an educational intervention. Methods: The intervention was used to educate patients about the benefits of advance care directives, and present opportunities for patients to complete the directive. The intervention included educational pamphlets and posters available in the clinic waiting room. The participants included patients and their families who attend the clinic. Results and Conclusion: The educational campaign resulted in a 20.3% increase in the completion rates of advance directives among the randomly selected health records. Age, gender, and race were found to be influential factors in patients’ attitudes toward completing advance directives. This quality improvement project supports the application of an educational intervention to increase the completion rates of advance directives in clinics caring for patients who are immigrants, refugees, and low-income earners.
The ‘Necessity’ of New Position Limits in Agricultural Futures Markets:
Creators: name: Sanders, Dwight R.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
name: Sanders, Dwight R.
name: Irwin, Scott H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: Agricultural marketing

description: Regulators are proposing new position limits in U.S. commodity futures markets while the actual impact of long-only index funds on futures prices continues to be debated. Researchers have noted the data limitations—frequency and market breadth—associated with using data compiled by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC). This research addresses these shortfalls by using daily position data for a specific long-only index fund. The empirical analysis focuses on the firm-level position data across 13 U.S. agricultural futures markets. The firm-level data are shown to be representative of the overall index fund industry. Empirical tests fail to find any evidence linking the firm’s trading with market returns. However, there does appear to be a consistent negative relationship between the firm’s roll transactions and changes in calendar price spreads. Notably, the direction of this impact is opposite of price-pressure hypothesis. The results of this study, and others, indicate that a clear verdict can be reached—new limits on speculation in agricultural futures markets are unnecessary.
Topological properties of epidemic aftershock processes
Creators: name: Baró, Jordi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Earthquakes in seismological catalogs and acoustic emission events in lab experiments can be statistically described as a linear Hawkes point process, where the spatio-temporal rate of events is a linear superposition of background intensity and the aftershock clusters triggered by preceding activity. Traditionally, statistical seismology has interpreted this model as the outcome of an epidemic branching process, where one-to-one causal links can be established between mainshocks and aftershocks. Declustering techniques have been used to infer the underlying triggering trees and relate their topological properties with epidemic branching models. Here, we review how the standard Epidemic Type Aftershock Sequence (ETAS) model extends from the Galton-Watson (GW) branching processes and bridges two extreme cases: Poisson sampling and scale-free power-law trees. We report the most essential topological properties expected in GW epidemic trees: the branching probability, the distribution of tree size, the expected family size, and the relation between average leaf-depth and tree size. We find that such topological properties depend exclusively on two sampling parameters of the standard ETAS model: the average branching ratio $N_b$ and the exponent ratio $α/b$ determining the branching probability distribution. From these results, one can use the memory-less GW as a null-model for empirical triggering processes and assess the validity of the ETAS model to reproduce the statistics of natural and artificial catalogs.
description: 17 pages, 4 figures
Preventing Dysfunctional Behaviors of Those with  Dementia Based  on the Progressively Lowered Stress Threshold Model
Creators: name: Chrabaszcz, Mary
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2014

Abstract
Dementia is a disease that impacts millions of people worldwide.  Amongst the complications of this disease are behaviors that affect not only the individual with dementia but also their caregivers.  These behaviors can be challenging especially for formal caregivers and it is important that they are taught how to prevent them.  Long-term care facilities are the perfect settings for this type of education.  For this reason, an educational program, including a needs assessment, PowerPoint presentation, and on-site support, was brought to a locked, assisted-living unit of Jewish Geriatric Services in Longmeadow, Massachusetts.  The educational program was inspired and supported by a specific nursing model:  the Progressively Lowered Stress Threshold model.  This model focuses on preventing behavioral symptoms of those with dementia and it was effective in increasing the amount of learning for participants while decreasing behaviors and caregiver reactions with clinical significance.
            Keywords: dementia, caregivers, behaviors, prevention, Progressively Lowered Stress Threshold
Hedging on the Live Cattle Futures Contract
Creators: name: Gum, Russell L.
name: Wildermuth, John
name: Gum, Russell L.
name: Wildermuth, John
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Hedging
subject: futures trading
subject: cattle prices.

description: Feeders who wish to hedge should consider more than the price for which they sell a fed cattle futures contract. They should also consider the efficiency of the hedge and the expected effective price which results from hedging. This is slJown by selected comparisons of results for fed cattle marketed in Chicago, Phoenix, and Denver, May 1965 through December 1968.
Additional file 2 of From an electrophoretic mobility shift assay to isolated transcription factors: a fast genomic-proteomic approach
Creators: name: Mach-Aigner, Astrid R
name: Grosstessner-Hain, Karin
name: Poças-Fonseca, Marcio J
name: Mechtler, Karl
name: Mach, Robert L
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2:Multiple sequence alignment of the H. jecorina 2488prp with hypothetical proteins of other fungi, namely Nectria haematococca(GeneID: 9678588), Gibberella zeae(GeneID: 2791570), Neurospora crassa(GeneID: 3874038), Podospora anserina(GeneID: 6189947) Chaetomium globosum(GeneID: 4395593), Magnaporthe grisea(GeneID: 2675104). (PDF 288 KB)
Relative Frequencies of Blue Stragglers in Galactic Globular Clusters: Constraints for the Formation Mechanisms
Creators: name: Piotto, Giampaolo
name: De Angeli, Francesca
name: King, Ivan R.
name: Djorgovski, S. G.
name: Bono, Giuseppe
name: Cassisi, Santi
name: Meylan, Georges
name: Recio-Blanco, Alejandra
name: Rich, R. M.
name: Davies, Melvyn B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the main properties of the Galactic globular cluster (GC) blue straggler stars (BSS), as inferred from our new catalog containing nearly 3000 BSS. The catalog has been extracted from the photometrically homogeneous V vs. (B-V) color-magnitude diagrams (CMD) of 56 GCs, based on WFPC2 images of their central cores. In our analysis we used consistent relative distances based on the same photometry and calibration. The number of BSS has been normalized to obtain relative frequencies (F_{BSS}) and specific densities (N_S) using different stellar populations extracted from the CMD. The cluster F_{BSS} is significantly smaller than the relative frequency of field BSS. We find a significant anti-correlation between the BSS relative frequency in a cluster and its total absolute luminosity (mass). There is no statistically significant trend between the BSS frequency and the expected collision rate. F_{BSS} does not depend on other cluster parameters, apart from a mild dependence on the central density. PCC clusters act like normal clusters as far as the BSS frequency is concerned. We also show that the BSS luminosity function for the most luminous clusters is significantly different, with a brighter peak and extending to brighter luminosities than in the less luminous clusters. These results imply that the efficiency of BSS production mechanisms and their relative importance vary with the cluster mass.
description: 12 pages, 3 figures. accepted for publication in ApJL
Implicit and explicit processing of bodily emotions in schizophrenia
Creators: name: Hajdúk, Michal
name: Klein, Hans S.
name: Bass, Emily L.
name: Cassi R. Springfield
name: Pinkham, Amy E.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Disturbed emotion processing is well documented in schizophrenia, but the majority of studies evaluate processing of emotion only from facial expressions. Social cues are also communicated via body posture, and they are similarly relevant for successful social interactions. The aim of the current study was to thoroughly examine body perception abilities in individuals with schizophrenia. Fifty-nine patients with schizophrenia and 37 healthy controls completed two tasks of body processing. The first, which was based on the Affect Misattribution Procedure, evaluated implicit processing of bodily emotions, and the second utilised a traditional emotion identification paradigm to assess explicit emotion recognition. Results revealed aberrant implicit processing, but more normative explicit processing, in individuals with schizophrenia. Moderate associations were found between processing of bodies and symptoms of paranoia. Performance on the tasks was not related to cognitive functioning but was associated with clinician-rated social functioning. Collectively, these results provide information about disturbed processing of bodily emotions in schizophrenia and suggest that these disturbances are associated with the severity of positive symptoms and predict difficulties in everyday social activities and interpersonal relationships.
Free energy of cylindrical polyions: analytical results
Creators: name: Tellez, Gabriel
name: Trizac, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the Poisson-Boltzmann (PB) framework useful for a wealth of charged soft matter problems, we work out the Coulombic grand potential of a long cylindrical charged polyion in a binary electrolyte solution of arbitrary valency and for low salt concentration. We obtain the exact analytical low-salt asymptotic expression for the grand potential, derived from known properties of the exact solutions to the cylindrical PB equation. These results are relevant for understanding nucleic acid processes. In practice, our expressions are accurate for arbitrary polyion charges, provided their radius is smaller than the Debye length defined by the electrolyte.
Procedure for Including a Timber Enterprise in a Programming Evaluation of River Basin Development
Creators: name: Greenhalgh, Richard
name: Davidson, Karl H.
name: Greenhalgh, Richard
name: Davidson, Karl H.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1970
Subjects: subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: Enterprise budgets
subject: linear programming
subject: resource development
subject: resource use
subject: river basin planning
subject: timber resource planning
subject: woodland clearing.

description: Wood products are included as competing enterprises in a model used as an aid in evaluating the need for land and water resource development. The procedure for developing linear programming data inputs for veneer, sawtimber, cordwood, and "other" enterprises is presented. Detailed land use was developed from secondary sources. Data for enterprise budgets were developed mainly from experience on publicly owned land. The river basins examined were found to be capable of meeting food and fiber needs for the next 50 years, although improved woodland management is necessary. An increase in woodland acreage is needed to meet wood product demands after 1980.
Additional file 10 of Genomic analysis of worldwide sheep breeds reveals PDGFD as a major target of fat-tail selection in sheep
Creators: name: Dong, Kunzhe
name: Yang, Min
name: Han, Jiangang
name: Ma, Qing
name: Han, Jilong
name: Song, Ziyi
name: Luosang, Cuicheng
name: Gorkhali, Neena Amatya
name: Yang, Bohui
name: He, Xiaohong
name: Ma, Yuehui
name: Jiang, Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 10 Figure S4. Replication of the top candidate SNPs proposed by three previous studies in all sheep breeds used in this study. (A) Derived allele frequency (DAF) of the top candidate SNPs previously proposed. (B) The top panel of “A” indicates the the derived allele frequency (DAF) of 10 top SNPs on chromosome 5 and 7 proposed in Table 3 in study of Moradi et al.. The s553221.1 locus on chromosome 5 in their study was not included because it did not pass the quality control in this study. (B) The middle panel of “A” shows the DAF of four SNPs corresponding to BMP2 and two SNPs corresponding to VRTN gene proposed in Table 2 in study of Moioli et al.. The s73063.1 locus annotated to VRTN was not was not included because it did not pass the quality control in this study. (C) The bottom panel of “A” represents the DAF of SNPs annotated to the key genes proposed in Table 1 and Table 2 in study of Yuan et al. The OAR4_73050615.1 locus is from Table 1 and other loci are from Table 2 in their study.
Improving Culturally Competent LGBTQ+ Care Among Primary Care Providers
Creators: name: Diaz, Christopher
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

Purpose: Although general efforts have been made to identify, address, and improve the standing of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) community, many of these individuals continue to experience stigmatization and discrimination daily. These experiences influence the health of these individuals, which leads to several health disparities including an increased risk for numerous physical and mental health conditions.
Methods: Using nationally developed guidelines, the author of this project developed two didactic-style educational presentations for primary care providers to improve cultural competency for LGBTQ+ individuals. Eight providers completed both presentations, which explored the attitudes, knowledge, and beliefs/practice intentions of each participant. Three questionnaires/assessments were given immediately before the first presentation and immediately after the second presentation four weeks later.
Results: Of the four subcategories (attitudes, knowledge, beliefs, and practice intentions) used to define provider’s cultural competence, primary care provider attitudes were noted to improve when comparing the pre-intervention mean to the post-intervention mean. However, in two surveys used to evaluate provider knowledge and beliefs/practice intentions as it relates to the LGBTQ+ community, a small decrease was observed when comparing the pre-intervention means to the post-intervention means.
Conclusion: Didactic-style educational presentations focused on LGBTQ+ cultural competency provides one approach to educating primary care providers to better the access and quality of health care for LGBTQ+ individuals.
Polarized Line Formation in Arbitrary Strength Magnetic Fields: the case of a two-level atom with hyperfine structure splitting
Creators: name: Sampoorna, M.
name: Nagendra, K. N.
name: Sowmya, K.
name: Stenflo, J. O.
name: Anusha, L. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum interference effects together with partial frequency redistribution (PFR) in line scattering produce subtle signatures in the so called Second Solar Spectrum (the linearly polarized spectrum of the Sun). These signatures are modified in the presence of arbitrary strength magnetic fields via the Hanle, Zeeman, and Paschen-Back effects. In the present paper we solve the problem of polarized line formation in a magnetized atmosphere taking into account scattering in a two-level atom with hyperfine structure splitting together with PFR. To this end we incorporate the collisionless PFR matrix derived in Sowmya et al. (2014) in the polarized transfer equation. We apply the scattering expansion method to solve this transfer equation. We study the combined effects of PFR and Paschen-Back effect on polarized line profiles formed in an isothermal one-dimensional planar atmosphere. For this purpose, we consider the cases of D$_2$ lines of Li\,{\sc i} and Na\,{\sc i}.
description: 14 pages, 8 figures, published in ApJ
Impact of Health Education Campaign on Sexually Transmitted Infection Rates among Naval Service Members on an Operational Platform
Creators: name: Rollon, Ronald Salazar
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

Background: Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are pervasive among active duty service members. Although outlined in several health programs, policies and procedures, there is a lack of consistent health initiatives addressing STIs for United States service members at the deck plate. Purpose: The purpose of this project was to implement an initiative on an operational platform with the aim of promoting health and wellness of service members through a multimodal health approach. Method: This project included educational classes and advertisements to influence service members’ knowledge and perceptions of sexually transmitted infections. The impact of the project on STI was assessed with expected outcomes of increased knowledge level, decreased STI rates, and increased screening and testing utilizations. Result: 19 individuals participated in the STI education, and 321 members were exposed in the health promotion project. There was an increase in mean Sexually Transmitted Disease Knowledge Questionnaire (STD-KQ) scores from pre- to post-education class, but this change was not statistically significant (paired t(18) = -1.872, p = .078). Additionally, there was a diagnosis of an STI after the project and laboratory screening and testing rate decreased by 33 percent. Discussion: The tendency for score improvement, rise of STI rate, and decrease laboratory testing usage could be attributed to the campaign project but further studies are needed to determine if the changes were the result of the project or by other variables. Conclusion: Further development of project on site would be beneficial to capture an effective campaign on an operational platform. Although findings were not statistically significant, the health promotion project posed a clinically relevant intervention on an operational platform.
Promoting Verbal De-escalation in Psychiatric Patient Encounters
Creators: name: Moseni, Tara
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

Purpose: Physical restraint, an intervention to manage psychiatric patients’ agitation, can potentially compromise patient medical and mental stability and can be avoided with verbal de-escalation.  A lack of knowledge and confidence amongst nursing staff in the use of verbal de-escalation to minimize restraint use is a continuing problem. The purpose of this project is to improve nursing staff’s knowledge, attitudes, and confidence as it relates to verbal de-escalation techniques. 
Methods: An educational intervention was offered for nursing staff of one psychiatric pediatric clinical setting and was implemented and evaluated using a pre and post-test design. Two questionnaires were given, to assess nursing staff’s knowledge and confidence, one month before and one month after the presentation. Four presentations were offered. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics.  
Results: Nursing staff’s confidence was noted to significantly improve when comparing the pre-intervention mean to the post-intervention mean. However, mixed results were noted on assessment of nursing staff’s knowledge of crisis management depending on which question was answered. 
Conclusion: The educational intervention showed improvement in nursing staff’s confidence and knowledge on verbal de-escalation. Ideally this will result in decrease in physical restraint with further exploration.
Additional file 5 of Genomic analysis of worldwide sheep breeds reveals PDGFD as a major target of fat-tail selection in sheep
Creators: name: Dong, Kunzhe
name: Yang, Min
name: Han, Jiangang
name: Ma, Qing
name: Han, Jilong
name: Song, Ziyi
name: Luosang, Cuicheng
name: Gorkhali, Neena Amatya
name: Yang, Bohui
name: He, Xiaohong
name: Ma, Yuehui
name: Jiang, Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 5 Figure S1. The distribution of derived allele frequency (DAF) of the 16 candidate SNPs in each breed. SNPs were sorted according to the average value of FST and ΔDAF among the three comparisons indicated in Fig. 1b from high to low. SNPs labeled in red represented promising candidate SNPs for fat tail in sheep and the remaining eight SNPs were excluded from the promising candidate list because they failed to pass the filter criterial described in Methods.
Knot theory in handlebodies
Creators: name: Haering-Oldenburg, Reinhard
name: Lambropoulou, Sofia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57M25

description: We consider oriented knots and links in a handlebody of genus $g$ through appropriate braid representatives in $S^3$, which are elements of the braid groups $B_{g,n}$. We prove a geometric version of the Markov theorem for braid equivalence in the handlebody, which is based on the $L$-moves. Using this we then prove two algebraic versions of the Markov theorem. The first one uses the $L$-moves. The second one uses the Markov moves and conjugation in the groups $B_{g,n}$. We show that not all conjugations correspond to isotopies.
description: 23 pages, 23 figures, LaTex file
Additional file 6 of Genomic analysis of worldwide sheep breeds reveals PDGFD as a major target of fat-tail selection in sheep
Creators: name: Dong, Kunzhe
name: Yang, Min
name: Han, Jiangang
name: Ma, Qing
name: Han, Jilong
name: Song, Ziyi
name: Luosang, Cuicheng
name: Gorkhali, Neena Amatya
name: Yang, Bohui
name: He, Xiaohong
name: Ma, Yuehui
name: Jiang, Lin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 6 Figure S2. Phylogenetic analysis of the studied sheep breeds. (A) Principle Component Analysis (PCA) results. The left panel shows the PCA plot generated based on genome wide SNPs. The right panel shows the PCA plot generated based on the 8 candidate SNPs. (B) Phylogenetic tree results. The left panel shows the phylogenetic tree constructed according to genome wide SNPs. The right panel shows the phylogenetic tree constructed according to the 8 candidate SNPs.
Probing Grand Unification Through Neutrino Oscillations, Leptogenesis, and Proton Decay
Creators: name: Pati, Jogesh C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Evidence in favor of supersymmetric grand unification including that based on the observed family multiplet-structure, gauge coupling unification, neutrino oscillations, baryogenesis, and certain intriguing features of quark-lepton masses and mixings is noted. It is argued that attempts to understand (a) the tiny neutrino masses (especially Delta m^2 (nu_2 -nu_3)), (b) the baryon asymmetry of the universe (which seems to need leptogenesis), and (c) the observed features of fermion masses such as the ratio m_b/m_tau, the smallness of V_cb and the maximality of theta_{nu_mu-nu_tau}, seem to select out the route to higher unification based on an effective string-unified G(224) = SU(2)_L x SU(2)_R x SU(4)^c or SO(10)-symmetry, operative in 4D, as opposed to other alternatives. A predictive framework based on an effective SO(10) or G(224) symmetry possessing supersymmetry is presented that successfully describes the masses and mixings of all fermions including neutrinos. It also accounts for the observed baryon asymmetry of the universe by utilizing the process of leptogenesis, which is natural to this framework. It is argued that a conservative upper limit on the proton lifetime within this SO(10)/G(224)-framework, which is so far most successful, is given by (1/3-2) x 10^34 years. This in turn strongly suggests that an improvement in the current sensitivity by a factor of five to ten (compared to SuperK) ought to reveal proton decay. Implications of this prediction for the next-generation nucleon decay and neutrino-detector are noted.
description: 40 page, 3 figures. Conference proceedings from Erice School (Sept 2002), Neutrino Conference (Stony Brook, 2002), PASCOS Conference (Mumbai, 2003) Version 2: New references and some clarifications added
ЛОТИН ТИЛИНИ ЎҚИТИШ ЖАРАЁНИДА ТАЛАБАЛАРНИ ИНТЕЛЛЕКТУАЛ-МАДАНИЙ РИВОЖЛАНТИРИШНИНГ ПСИХОЛОГИК  НАЗАРИЙ АСОСЛАРИ
Creators: name: Сабирова, Сабина
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Ушбу макола тиббиёт олий таълим муассасаларида талабаларга лотин тилини укитишда  инттеллектуал-маданий ривожлантиришда уларга психологик назарий тушунчалар  яратиб бериш муаммолари ва асослари   хакида фикр юритилган.
FARMLAND VALUES AND URBANIZATION
Creators: name: Morris, Douglas E.
name: Morris, Douglas E.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1978
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: Farm Management
subject: Land Economics/Use
subject: Farmland value
subject: urbanization
subject: elasticity
subject: cost production

description: Estimates of the effect of urbanization on farmland values and eventually food prices are presented. These estimates, which reveal a strong positive relationship between urbanization and farmland values, are used to construct elasticities of farmland value related to population density for the 10 farm production regions in the 48 contiguous States. These elasticities are generally elastic; thus the author examines the issue of including a land charge in commodity cost of production budgets that could eventually be used as a basis for loan rates.
Static Properties of a Simulated Supercooled Polymer Melt: Structure Factors, Monomer Distributions Relative to the Center of Mass, and Triple Correlation Functions
Creators: name: Aichele, Martin
name: Chong, Song-Ho
name: Baschnagel, Jörg
name: Fuchs, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze structural and conformational properties in a simulated bead-spring model of a non-entangled, supercooled polymer melt. We explore the statics of the model via various structure factors, involving not only the monomers, but also the center of mass (CM). We find that the conformation of the chains and the CM-CM structure factor, which is well described by a recently proposed approximation [Krakoviack et al., Europhys. Lett. 58, 53 (2002)], remain essentially unchanged on cooling toward the critical glass transition temperature of mode-coupling theory. Spatial correlations between monomers on different chains, however, depend on temperature, albeit smoothly. This implies that the glassy behavior of our model cannot result from static intra-chain or CM-CM correlations. It must be related to inter-chain correlations at the monomer level. Additionally, we study the dependence of inter-chain correlation functions on the position of the monomer along the chain backbone. We find that this site-dependence can be well accounted for by a theory based on the polymer reference interaction site model (PRISM). We also analyze triple correlations by means of the three-monomer structure factors for the melt and for the chains. These structure factors are compared with the convolution approximation that factorizes them into a product of two-monomer structure factors. For the chains this factorization works very well, indicating that chain connectivity does not introduce special triple correlations in our model. For the melt deviations are more pronounced, particularly at wave vectors close to the maximum of the static structure factor.
description: REVTeX4, 16 pages, 16 figures, accepted for publication in Physical Review E
A Toolkit to Adequately Screen Pregnant Women for Depression and thus Increase Screening in an Outpatient Obstetrical Clinic
Creators: name: Doherty, Katherine
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

Background: Perinatal depression is a common health complication during pregnancy. Untreated depression among perinatal women is associated with adverse health outcomes for infants and mothers. Screening during the perinatal time period is needed to identify and treat depression and to prevent adverse health outcomes.
Purpose: The purpose of this clinical project is to equip health care providers with the knowledge and tools needed to  screen pregnant women for depression and thus increase the amount of screening done in an outpatient obstetrical clinic.
Methods: An evidenced- based educational tool kit was developed to increase provider knowledge of perinatal depression and increase depression screening. The effectiveness of the educational toolkits was assessed using self-report pre and post questionnaires and through a review of patient health records pre- and post-education to determine screening rates during pregnancy.
Results: Participant knowledge about perinatal depression increased by 20.8% after completing the education program. Perinatal depression screening increased from 3 screenings to 28 screening pre- and post- intervention, an increase of 44.6%.
Conclusion: An education program on the importance of perinatal depression and screening increased the knowledge of attendees and increased the number of depression screenings completed in the outpatient obstetrical clinic.
Additional file of Genome-wide promoter analysis of histone modifications in human monocyte-derived antigen presenting cells
Creators: name: Tserel, Liina
name: Kolde, Raivo
name: Rebane, Ana
name: Kisand, Kai
name: Org, Tõnis
name: Peterson, Hedi
name: Vilo, Jaak
name: Pärt Peterson
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file of Genome-wide promoter analysis of histone modifications in human monocyte-derived antigen presenting cells
High-degree gravity modes in the single sdB star HD4539
Creators: name: Silvotti, R.
name: Uzundag, M.
name: Baran, A. S.
name: Ostensen, R. H.
name: Telting, J. H.
name: Heber, U.
name: Reed, M. D.
name: Vuckovic, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: HD4539 (alias PG0044+097 or EPIC220641886) is a bright (V=10.2) long-period V1093 Her-type subdwarf B (sdB) pulsating star that was observed by the Kepler spacecraft in its secondary (K2) mission. We use the K2 light curve (78.7 days) to extract 169 pulsation frequencies, 124 with a robust detection. Most of these frequencies are found in the low-frequency region typical of gravity (g-)modes, but some higher frequencies corresponding to pressure (p-)modes are also detected. Therefore HD4539 is a hybrid pulsator and both the deep and surface layers of the star can potentially be probed through asteroseismology. The lack of any frequency splitting in its amplitude spectrum suggests that HD4539 has a rotation period longer than the K2 run and/or that it is seen pole-on. From asymptotic period spacing we see many high-degree modes, up to l=12, in the spectrum of HD4539, with amplitudes as low as a few ppm. A large fraction of these modes can be identified and for ~29% of them we obtain a unique and robust identification corresponding to l<=8. Our study includes also a new determination of the atmospheric parameters of the star. From low-resolution spectroscopy we obtain Teff=22,800+-160 K, logg=5.20+-0.02 and log(N(He)/N(H))=-2.34+-0.05. By fitting the SED we obtain Teff=23,470+650-210 K, R_star=0.26+-0.01 Rsun and M_star=0.40+-0.08 Msun. Moreover, from 11 high-resolution spectra we see the radial velocity variations caused by the stellar pulsations, with amplitudes of ~150~m/s for the main modes, and we can exclude the presence of a companion with a minimum mass higher than a few Jupiter masses for orbital periods below ~300 days.
description: 13 pages, Accepted for publication in MNRAS
Outcomes of Directly Observed Therapy in People Living with HIV Who Experience Homelessness and Substance Use Disorder
Creators: name: Clawson, Mara C
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Year: 2023

Background: Antiretroviral directly observed therapy, in which nurses or other allied health professionals provide patients with daily medication, is an evidence-based solution for viral load suppression in people living with HIV who experience homelessness. Purpose: This quality improvement project aimed to assess the outcomes of antiretroviral directly observed therapy at one urban clinic caring for people living with human immunodeficiency virus who experience homelessness and substance use disorder. Methods: Data was collected from the electronic health record for the antiretroviral directly observed therapy patient cohort (n = 33); 10 of them were surveyed. Fisher exact tests determined nonrandom associations between viral suppression and all other categorical variables. Survey answers were mapped to the modified Andersen’s Behavioral Model domains and subcategories. Results: Seventy-three percent of program patients were virally suppressed after participating in the program; 42% were virally undetectable. The relationship between viral suppression and date of most recent primary care provider visit was significant (p = 0.01). Eighty percent of surveyed patient participants reported that they liked the program, and 70% said that taking ART makes them feel better. Eighty percent of patients described their health as “Fair” or “Poor” before initiating treatment with the program, while 90% of patients reported their own health as being “good”, “very good”, or “excellent” after participating. Conclusion: Results suggest that when nurse-led teams actively engage PLWH, viral suppression, and consequent undetectability, is more likely. Clear implications for practice include continuing nurse navigation to promote viral suppression.
Acorethra aureofasciata Gounelle 1911
Creators: name: Clarke, Robin O. S.
name: Flora, Hotel
name: Fauna
name: Casilla
name: de, Santa Cruz
name: Sierra
name: Bolivia
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Coleoptera
Cerambycidae
Acorethra
Acorethra aureofasciata

description: Acorethra aureofasciata Gounelle, 1911
(Fig. 47-48)
 Not examined; but photographs of the male holotype and a MNRJ female indicates its validity in this genus (as described by Bates (1873) for A. chrysaspis): “the elongated hind legs…and disproportionate abdomen, exceeding by one half the length of the rest of the body, separate it from Charis ”.
description: Published as part of Clarke, Robin O. S., Flora, Hotel, Fauna, Casilla, de, Santa Cruz, Sierra & Bolivia, 2016, Provisional revision of the genus Epimelitta Bates, 1870 and associated genera, with a brief synopsis of the genus Acorethra Bates, 1873 (Coleoptera, Cerambycidae), pp. 1-43 in Insecta Mundi 2016 (504) on page 31, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.5170799
Additional file 1 of Genome-wide promoter analysis of histone modifications in human monocyte-derived antigen presenting cells
Creators: name: Tserel, Liina
name: Kolde, Raivo
name: Rebane, Ana
name: Kisand, Kai
name: Org, Tõnis
name: Peterson, Hedi
name: Vilo, Jaak
name: Pärt Peterson
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 1:Tserel et al BMC Genomics. Contains Supplementary Table S1 and Supplementary Figures S1-S8. Size 1.2 MB (PDF 2 MB)
Thermal shape fluctuation effects in the description of hot nuclei
Creators: name: Martin, V.
name: Egido, J. L.
name: Robledo, L. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The behavior of several nuclear properties with temperature is analyzed within the framework of the Finite Temperature Hartree-Fock-Bogoliubov (FTHFB) theory with the Gogny force and large configuration spaces. Thermal shape fluctuations in the quadrupole degree of freedom, around the mean field solution, are taken into account with the Landau prescription. As representative examples the nuclei $^{164}$Er, $^{152}$Dy and $^{192}$Hg are studied. Numerical results for the superfluid to normal and deformed to spherical shape transitions are presented. We found a substantial effect of the fluctuations on the average value of several observables. In particular, we get a decrease in the critical temperature ($T_c$) for the shape transition as compared with the plain FTHFB prediction as well as a washing out of the shape transition signatures. The new values of $T_c$ are closer to the ones found in Strutinsky calculations and with the Pairing Plus Quadrupole model Hamiltonian.
description: 17 pages, 8 Figures