cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Measles surveillance activities in the Metropolitan Area of Milan during 2017-2018.
Creators: name: Bianchi, Silvia
name: Faccini, Marino
name: Lamberti, Anna
name: Senatore, Sabrina
name: Ciceri, Giulia
name: Frati, Elena Rosanna
name: Colzani, Daniela
name: Gori, Maria
name: Cereda, Danilo
name: Gramegna, Maria
name: Auxilia, Francesco
name: Tanzi, Elisabetta
name: Amendola, Antonella
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2019

description: Introduction In Italy, the transmission of measles is still endemic and between January 2017 and December 2018 7,919 cases were reported to the National Surveillance System. Aim of this study is to report the results of the measles surveillance activities in the Metropolitan City of Milan from March 2017 to December 2018, and to evaluate the surveillance performance WHO indicators. Methods The Local Health Units (LHUs) carried out case investigations and collected specimens to send to the EpiSoMI Lab (Subnational Reference Laboratory, SRL) of the University of Milan for cases/outbreaks confirmation and genotyping performed according to the WHO Guidelines. Results Overall, 610 suspected measles cases were reported by the surveillance system of the Metropolitan City of Milan. A total of 439 cases were laboratory-confirmed by molecular and/or serological assays. Two hundred and thirty-six cases were notified as sporadic and 203 as related to 94 outbreaks. The most confirmed cases was aged 15–39 years, almost all not vaccinated. Overall, 282 cases were genotype D8 and 118 genotype B3. The evaluation of a set of indicators to monitor the quality of surveillance activities demonstrated the proficiency of the EpiSoMI Lab. Conclusions A well done investigation of cases and outbreaks by the surveillance local system, in a timely manner, in order notify and investigate suspected cases and to laboratory confirm or discard cases is fundamental to reduce morbidity, to prevent further virus transmission and to achieve measles elimination.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 60 No 4 (2019): 2019604
THE SIGNIFICANCE OF OCCLUSION IN RESTORATIVE DENTISTRY
Creators: name: Akhmadjonov, Muhammadismoil
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In this time of fast-moving change in restorative techniques and products, all operative dentists should raise their consciousness of occlusal principles. Occlusal forces set limits on the selection of materials and often prescribe the design features needed for a successful outcome. With structurally or periodontally compromised teeth, the occlusal planning to minimize nonaxial forces lies at the heart of the restoration. Virtually all restorative dentistry is affected by the occlusal forces of the teeth in function. Clinicians who ignore them place their restorations in jeopardy and their peace of mind at risk.
Dangerous passengers: Multidrug-resistant bacteria on hands and mobile phones.
Creators: name: Martina, Pablo F
name: Martinez, Mónica
name: Centeno, Celia K
name: Von Specht, Martha
name: Ferreras, Julían
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2019

description: Introduction: It is recognized that mobile phones may play a role in microorganism transmission and that hand hygiene, is considered the most important action for preventing infections and the spread of pathogens. The objective of this study was to determine presence and circulation bacteria on hands and mobile phones capable of causing infections in people and also determine if disinfection with gel-alcohol is useful to reduce the bacterial colonization. Methods: The bacterial evaluation included 596 hands of participants and 256 mobile phones. Isolated colonies were identified by biochemical test and confirmed by gene 16S rRNA sequencing. Minimal inhibitory concentration was performed using the automated instrument Vitek®2-Compact and diffusion method. Results: In total, 92.9% of mobile phones and 98.3% of participants in study demonstrated evidence of bacterial contamination with different types of bacteria. Surprisingly, we observed that 18.6% plaques inoculated with disinfected fingers showed bacterial growth. In general, Gram negative isolates showed resistance to a higher number of antibiotics tested than Gram positive isolates. Conclusions: Our results could help to raise awareness in our society about the importance of hand hygiene, as well as frequently used devices, reducing bacterial contamination and limiting the possibility of transmission of resistant multi-drug bacteria.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 60 No 4 (2019): 2019604
Magnetospheric Eternally Collapsing Objects (MECOs): Likely New Class of Source of Cosmic Particle Acceleration
Creators: name: Mitra, Abhas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: General Physics (physics.gen-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is known that spinning pulsars could be source of VHE-UHE cosmic particle acceleration. It is also conjectured that (fictitious) spinning Black Holes (BH) could be sites of cosmic particle acceleration. However, it has been shown by Mitra and Leiter and Robertson that General Relativity (GR) actually does not allow the existence or formation of finite mass BHs. It was predicted that the BH Candiadates (BHCs) have strong intrinsic magnetic fields (like pulsars) instead of Event Horizons. And this prediction has tentatively been verified in a series of papers by Robertson & Leiter. Thus all observed BH Candidates are actually not BHs, and, they are expected to be MECOs. Stellar mass MECOs are GR analogs of conventionally known isolated pulsars. While pulsars are/have (i) COLD, i.e., not supported by radiation pressure, MECOs are HOT, i.e., supported primarily by trapped radiation pressure, (ii) upper mass limit of 3-4 Msolar MECOs, being HOT, have no Upper Mass Limit, (iii) surface gravitational red shift, z ~ 0.1 -0.2, MECOs have z >> 1 so that photons can remain almost permanently trapped inside them, (iv) magnetic field B <10^{13} G, for MECOs the local value of B >> 10^{13} G. It may be recalled that isolated (non- accreting) uncharged BHs are cold and dead objects without any physical activity. On the other hand, isolated spinning MECOs are like extreme GR pulsars.
description: To be presented in 29th ICRC, 4 pages, Oral, Typos removed
Burden of the typhoid fever and cholera: similarities and differences. Prevention strategies for international travelers to endemic/epidemic areas.
Creators: name: Amicizia, Daniela
name: Micale, Rosanna Tindara
name: Pennati, Beatrice Marina
name: Zangrillo, Francesca
name: Iovine, Mariasilvia
name: Lecini, Elvina
name: Marchini, Francesca
name: Lai, Piero Luigi
name: Panatto, Donatella
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2019

description: The burden of diarrheal diseases is very high, accounting for 1.7 to 5 billion cases per year worldwide. Typhoid Fever (TF) and Cholerare potentially life-threatening infectious diseases mainly transmitted through the consumption of food, drink or water that have been contaminated by the feces or urine of subjects excreting the pathogen. TF is mainly caused by Salmonella typhi whereas Cholera is caused by intestinal infection by the toxin-producing bacterium Vibrio cholerae. These diseases typically affect low- and middle-income countries where housing is overcrowded and water and sanitation are poor, or where conflicts or natural disasters have led to the collapse of the water, sanitation and healthcare systems. The mortality rate is higher in children under 5 years. Regarding their geographical distribution, TF has a high incidence in sub-Saharan Africa, India and south-east Asia, while cholera has a high incidence in a few African countries, particularly in the Horn of Africa and the Arabian peninsula. In the fight against these diseases, preventive measures are fundamental. With modern air travel, transmissible diseases can spread across continents and oceans in a few days, constituting a threat to global public health. Nowadays, people travel for different reasons such as tourism and business. Several surveys have shown that a high proportion of travellers lack adequate information on safety issues, such as timely vaccination and prophylactic medications. The main objective of this overview is to provide the knowledge for travellers to stay healthy while abroad, and thus also to reduce the potential importation of these diseases and their consequent implications for public health and society. The preventive measures to be adopted in the case of travel to countries where these diseases are still endemic are well known: the adoption of safe practices and vaccinations. Vaccination is effective especially when coupled with hand-washing, the treatment of household water, and the provision of adequate sanitation. Furthermore, the emergence of multidrug-resistant strains is becoming a serious problem in the clinical treatment of these diseases. For this reason, vaccination is the main solution.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 60 No 4 (2019): 2019604
NGC 4340: Double Bar + Fossil Nuclear Ring
Creators: name: Erwin, P.
name: Beltran, J. C. Vega
name: Beckman, J. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: NGC 4340 is a double-barred SB0 galaxy in the Virgo cluster (Wozniak et al. 1995). Here, we present evidence that this galaxy also posseses a luminous stellar nuclear ring of relatively old stars with little or no gas. The ring lies just outside the inner bar, at the probable inner inner Lindblad resonance (IILR) of the outer bar. Careful inspection of the isophotes and unsharp masks shows that the two bars are slightly misaligned, which suggests they may be independently rotating.
description: 1 Page, 1 figure, kluwer.cls needed to complile (included in tar file) Poster presented at the Granada Euroconference (May, 2000): The Evolution of Galaxies. I- Observational clues
Smoking and alcoholism among adult population and its association with outlet density in a hilly area of North India.
Creators: name: RAUTELA, YASHNEEL
name: GUPTA, ARTI
name: SINGH, AMIT KUMAR
name: REDDY B, VENKATASHIVA
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2019

description: Background: The rising burden of non-communicable diseases is a threat to India. The behavioural risk factors having largest contribution to NCDs. Neighbourhood retailing of tobacco products, and alcohol are important risk factors. The objectives of the present study was to determine the prevalence of smoking and alcoholism among adult of Srikot, Uttarakhand, and to determine its relationship with tobacco, and alcohol retail outlet density. Materials and Methods: The study design was a community based cross sectional study, which was done in Srikot, Uttarakhand among adults aged above 20 years, selected by systematic sampling. A semi-structured questionnaire was used. The outlet density was measured mapped using android application. Results: A total of 155 were enrolled in the study of which 61.3% were females. A total of 11.6% of the study participants were smokers. On multivariate analysis male gender, and alcohol use was significantly associated with increased risk of smoking (p<0.05). A total of 16.8% of the study participants were alcohol user. On multivariate analysis it was found male gender, and smoking was significantly associated with increased risk of alcohol use (p<0.05). On mapping the study area, it was found that total tobacco selling outlets were 40. There was no alcohol-selling outlet in the study area. Conclusion: The community is in an early stage of urbanization as evident from the burden of smoking, and alcohol use. This burden of smoking might be worsened by outlet density of tobacco seller.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 60 No 4 (2019): 2019604
Softening and Yielding of Soft Glassy Materials
Creators: name: Dagois-Bohy, Simon
name: Somfai, Ellák
name: Tighe, Brian P.
name: van Hecke, Martin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solids deform and fluids flow, but soft glassy materials, such as emulsions, foams, suspensions, and pastes, exhibit an intricate mix of solid and liquid-like behavior. While much progress has been made to understand their elastic (small strain) and flow (infinite strain) properties, such understanding is lacking for the softening and yielding phenomena that connect these asymptotic regimes. Here we present a comprehensive framework for softening and yielding of soft glassy materials, based on extensive numerical simulations of oscillatory rheological tests, and show that two distinct scenarios unfold depending on the material's packing density. For dense systems, there is a single, pressure-independent strain where the elastic modulus drops and the particle motion becomes diffusive. In contrast, for weakly jammed systems, a two-step process arises: at an intermediate softening strain, the elastic and loss moduli both drop down and then reach a new plateau value, whereas the particle motion becomes diffusive at the distinctly larger yield strain. We show that softening is associated with an extensive number of microscopic contact changes leading to a non-analytic rheological signature. Moreover, the scaling of the softening strain with pressure suggest the existence of a novel pressure scale above which softening and yielding coincide, and we verify the existence of this crossover scale numerically. Our findings thus evidence the existence of two distinct classes of soft glassy materials -- jamming dominated and dense -- and show how these can be distinguished by their rheological fingerprint.
description: 9 pages, 11 figures, to appear in Soft Matter
Josephson current in a superconductor-ferromagnet junction with two non-collinear magnetic domains
Creators: name: Crouzy, B.
name: Tollis, S.
name: Ivanov, D. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the Josephson effect in a superconductor--ferromagnet--superconductor (SFS) junction with ferromagnetic domains of non-collinear magnetization. As a model for our study we consider a diffusive junction with two ferromagnetic domains along the junction. The superconductor is assumed to be close to the critical temperature $T_c$, and the linearized Usadel equations predict a sinusoidal current-phase relation. We find analytically the critical current as a function of domain lengths and of the angle between the orientations of their magnetizations. As a function of those parameters, the junction may undergo transitions between 0 and $π$ phases. We find that the presence of domains reduces the range of junction lengths at which the $π$ phase is observed. For the junction with two domains of the same length, the $π$ phase totally disappears as soon as the misorientation angle exceeds $π/2$. We further comment on possible implication of our results for experimentally observable 0--$π$ transitions in SFS junctions.
description: 9 pages, 4 figures, minor changes, references added
BSXplorer example dataset (part1)
Creators: name: Yuditskiy, Konstantin
name: Samsonova, Anastasia
name: Kanapin, Alexander
name: Bezdvornykh, Igor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: bisulfite sequencing
DNA methylation

description: The dataset includes genome annotation files in gff format and subsets of whole genome bisulfite sequencing data for the following species: A. thaliana, B. distachyon, M. musculus.

The dataset accompanies BSXplorer package and may be used for testing and evaluation of the software
Self-reported recurrent pain and medicine use among 15- year-olds: Results from the HBSC Italian study
Creators: name: Pammolli, Andrea
name: Simi, Rita
name: CENTAURI, FEDERICA
name: Dalmasso, Paola
name: Berchialla, Paola
name: Borraccino, Alberto
name: Charrier, Lorena
name: Lenzi, Michela
name: Vieno, Alessio
name: Lemma, Patrizia
name: Cavallo, Franco
name: Lazzeri, Giacomo
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2019

description: Background: The prevalence of adolescent pain varies considerably across epidemiological studies, and little information is available on pain-related behaviours among adolescents, including medicine use. The aims of this study were: (1) to examine the prevalence of recurrent pain among 15-year-old adolescents in Italy; (2) to investigate the association between recurrent pain and medicine use among boys and girls; and (3) to evaluate the consistency of these associations across regions. Methods: The World Health Organization (WHO) collaborative International Health Behaviour in School-aged Children 2013/2014 study collected self-reported data on pain and medicine use from 13611 15-year-old adolescents in 21 Italian regions. We used multi-level multivariate logistic regression, stratified by gender, to analyse the association between recurrent pain and medicine use for headache, stomachache, nervousness and difficulties in getting to sleep. Results: On average, across all regions, almost 45% of adolescents reported recurrent headache, more than 30% reported recurrent backache and approximately 30% reported recurrent stomachache. Although the prevalence of both pain and medicine use was much higher among girls, the association between pain and medicine use was similarly strong in adolescents of both genders. Adolescents with recurrent pain proved more likely to use medicines also for non-corresponding pain, nervousness and difficulties in getting to sleep. The association between recurrent pain and medicine use was consistent across regions despite large inter-regional differences in the prevalence of both phenomena. Conclusions: Recurrent pain in adolescence is common nationwide. Adolescents with recurrent pain are more likely to use medicines in general. Recurrent pain and medicine use should be addressed by adolescent health policies.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 60 No 4 (2019): 2019604
Charged Stringy Black Holes With Non-Abelian Hair
Creators: name: Donets, E. E.
name: Gal'tsov, D. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Static spherically symmetric asymptotically flat charged black hole solutions are constructed within the magnetic SU(3) sector of the 4-dimensional heterotic string effective action. They possess non-abelian hair in addition to the Coulomb magnetic field and are qualitatively similar to the Einstein-Yang-Mills colored SU(3) black holes except for the extremal case. In the extremality limit the horizon shrinks and the resulting geometry around the origin coincides with that of an extremal abelian dilatonic black hole with magnetic charge. Non-abelian hair exibits then typical sphaleron structure.
description: 11 pages, LaTex, (7 figures upon request)
Knowledge about cancer screening programmes in Sardinia
Creators: name: Mereu, Alessandra
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2019

description: Background High level of attendance by population is considered a proof of the efficacy in the screening programmes. Public health aims to increase people’s attendance to cancer screening. The study aimed at assessing the level of knowledge and awareness about screening of citizens in Cagliari, from June to July 2016. Methods Recruiting took place near the atrium of the two main shopping centres of the city. The sample included 270 adults (138 men), 18-75 years old (mean age 46 years old). The information gathered from interviews were categorized dichotomizing answers according to the knowledge and understanding of the discussed topics. Descriptive analysis was performed. The Chi-square test was used to assess gender and educational differences. Results Results show that population's knowledge of screening is limited. Although the word "screening" is known, only half of the people who declared to have heard of this word know about the aim of screening. Colorectal cancer screening is the least known. Men and people with lower education are less informed than the other people are. Conclusion In order to raise knowledge and awareness about cancer screening, special attention should be paid to communication and to the use of plain language. Future action should highlight the benefit of the screening procedure and thus contributing to spread the cancer prevention culture. Gender and socioeconomic inequalities must be taken into account when planning screening communication campaigns. General practitioner are highly trusted by people. They could play a decisive role to promote screening attendance.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 60 No 4 (2019): 2019604
BismarkPlot example dataset
Creators: name: Yuditsky, Konstantin
name: Samsonova, Anastasia
name: Kanapin, Alexander
name: Bezdvornykh, Igor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: bisulfite sequencing
DNA methylation

description: The dataset includes genome annotation files in gff format and subsets of whole genome bisulfite sequencing data for the following species: A. thaliana, B. distachyon, M. musculus.
The dataset accompanies BismarkPlot package and may be used for testing and evaluation of the software
TURLI EKISH SXEMALARI HAMDA QATOR ORALARIGA ISHLOV BERISHDA SOYA NAVLARINI TUPROQDA QOLDIRGAN ILDIZ, ANG'IZ QOLDIQLARI
Creators: name: Xasanov, Sardor
name: Namozov, Fazliddin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Soyaning Nafis hamda Selekta-201 navlarini 60x8x2 va 70x8x2 sxemalarida qator oralig‘igiga 16-18 sm hamda 18-20 sm chuqurlikga ishlov berib parvarishlanganida eng yuqori angiz va ildiz qoldiqlari qolgan variatlar 4-, 7-,10-, 13-variantlarda kuzatilgan.
On the Extremal Graphs with Respect to Bond Incident Degree Indices
Creators: name: Ali, Akbar
name: Dimitrov, Darko
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Many existing degree based topological indices can be classified as bond incident degree (BID) indices, whose general form is $BID(G)=\sum_{uv\in E(G)}$ $Ψ(d_{u},d_{v})$, where $uv$ is the edge connecting the vertices $u,v$ of the graph $G$, $E(G)$ is the edge set of $G$, $d_{u}$ is the degree of the vertex $u$ and $Ψ$ is a non-negative real valued (symmetric) function of $d_{u}$ and $d_{v}$. Here, it has been proven that if the extension of $Ψ$ to the interval $[0,\infty)$ satisfies certain conditions then the extremal $(n,m)$-graph with respect to the BID index (corresponding to $Ψ$) must contain at least one vertex of degree $n-1$. It has been shown that these conditions are satisfied for the general sum-connectivity index (whose special cases are: the first Zagreb index and the Hyper Zagreb index), for the general Platt index (whose special cases are: the first reformulated Zagreb index and the Platt index) and for the variable sum exdeg index. Applying aforementioned result, graphs with maximum values of the aforementioned BID indices among tree, unicyclic, bicyclic, tricyclic and tetracyclic graphs were characterized. Some of these results are new and the already existing results are proven in a shorter and more unified way.
description: 15 pages, 3 figures
BSXplorer example dataset
Creators: name: Yuditskiy, Konstantin
name: Samsonova, Anastasia
name: Kanapin, Alexander
name: Bezdvornykh, Igor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: bisulfite sequencing
DNA methylation

description: The dataset includes genome annotation files in gff format and subsets of whole genome bisulfite sequencing data for the following species: A. thaliana, B. distachyon, M. musculus.

The dataset accompanies BSXplorer package and may be used for testing and evaluation of the software
Regione Lombardia: a tool for improve quality in hospitals
Creators: name: Castaldi, Silvana
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2019

description: Abstract Introduction The regional healthcare system of the Lombardy Region pay great attention to monitoring the effectiveness and quality level with which its services. The aim of this paper is to describe the method adopted by the Lombardy Region to create a governance tool for the healthcare system that would be applied within hospitals to create value at financial-economic level, to achieve continuous quality improvement and to increase patient/customer satisfaction levels. It was called: Piano Integrato del Miglioramento dell’ Organizzazione (PIMO), i.e. Integrated Plan for Hospital Improvement. Metjods The approach for the definition of the PIMO was based on: the Plan Do Check Act methodology; the management requirements introduced by the UNI EN ISO 9001:2008 and UNI EN ISO 9004:2005 standards; the regulations and indications made for the Public Administration; the Guidelines for planning and monitoring improvement proposed by the CAF (Common Assessment Framework). Results The evaluation of the scores for all the health structures shows a good level of quality and qualifies PIMO as a strategic tool for hospitals. Conclusions It will be necessary to allow this tool to operate for some time in order to make an overall assessment of the results achieved.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 60 No 4 (2019): 2019604
The distance to the Fornax dwarf galaxy using red clump stars, and the discrepancy between red clump and tip of the red giant branch distances
Creators: name: Bersier, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: I determine a distance to the Fornax dwarf galaxy using stars in the red clump and at the tip of the red giant branch. They are in very good agreement, with $μ_0 = 20.66 mag$. Comparing the magnitudes of the tip of the red giant branch and of the red clump in Fornax, Carina and the Magellanic Clouds, I propose a possible solution to the problem of the discrepancy between these two types of distance measurements.
description: To appear in ApJL
Young people, young adults and Binge Drinking
Creators: name: La Fauci, Vincenza
name: Squeri, Raffaele
name: Spataro, Pasquale
name: Genovese, Cristina
name: Laudani, Nunzio
name: Alessi, Valeria
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2019

description: Introduction and Purpose The consumption of alcohol among young people and young adults has undergone, in recent decades, a sharp upsurge with the increasingly frequent intake of large quantities of alcohol. The aim of our study was to investigate socio-demographic, economic and behavioural factors that have a major impact on the voluntary alcohol habit in young people. Methods The survey was conducted via administration of an anonymous questionnaire based on “the WHO Alcohol Use Disorders Identification Test”, disseminated on-line , to young people and young adults (aged 18 to 35) Results We examined a sample of 365 subjects. Consumption of wine and beer were predominant followed by super-alcohol mixes. We found correlations between alcohol use and the following variables: marital status (p<0.001), parental education(mother p<0.05; father p<0.001), income level(p<0.05), physical activity (p<0.05) and voluptuous habits(smoke and coffee: p<0.001.The 5% of men and 1% of women had car accidents during the previous year due to alcohol use and 15% said they did not remember what happened in an alcoholic evening once or twice a month. Conclusions The phenomenon of alcohol consummation is deeply ingrained in our reality, with dangerous episodes of binge drinking in young adults with a higher prevalence in the female sex.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 60 No 4 (2019): 2019604
The Effect of Side Traps on Ballistic Transistor in Kondo Regime
Creators: name: Tanamoto, Tetsufumi
name: Uchida, Ken
name: Fujita, Shinobu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effect of side-traps on conductance is calculated in the range of slave-boson mean field theory, especially when there are electrodes on both sides of the conductor. This corresponds to an investigation of transport properties in future ballistic transistors. An intrinsic dip as a result of the interference effect (Fano-Kondo effect) is expected to be observed as one of interesting interplays between physics and engineering devices.
description: 3 pages, 5 figures. 2006 International Conference on Solid State Devices and Materials (SSDM2006), Sept. 12-15, 2006, Yokohama, Japan
Kinematic structures of the Solar neighbourhood revealed by Gaia DR1/TGAS and RAVE
Creators: name: Kushniruk, Iryna
name: Schirmer, Thiebaut
name: Bensby, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The velocity distribution of stars in the Solar neighbourhood is inhomogeneous and rich with stellar streams and kinematic structures. These may retain important clues of the formation and dynamical history of the Milky Way. However, the nature and origin of many of the streams and structures is unclear, hindering our understanding of how the Milky Way formed and evolved. We aim to study the velocity distribution of stars of the Solar neighbourhood and investigate the properties of individual kinematic structures in order to improve our understanding of their origins. Using the astrometric data provided by Gaia DR1/TGAS and radial velocities from RAVE DR5 we perform a wavelet analysis with the `a trous algorithm to 55831 stars that have U and V velocity uncertainties less than 4 km/s. An auto-convolution histogram method is used to filter the output data, and we then run Monte Carlo simulations to verify that the detected structures are real due to velocity uncertainties. Additionally we analysed our stellar sample by splitting all stars into a nearby sample (<300 pc) and a distant sample (>300 pc), and two chemically defined samples that to a first degree represent the thin and the thick disks. With the much enlarged stellar sample and much increased precision in distances, proper motions, provided by Gaia DR1 TGAS we have shown that the velocity distribution of stars in the Solar neighbourhood contains more structures than previously known. A new feature is discovered and three recently detected groups are confirmed at high confidence level. Dividing the sample based on distance and/or metallicity shows that there are variety of structures which are as large-scale and small-scale groups, some of them have clear trends on metallicities, others are a mixture of both disk stars and based on that we discuss possible origin of each group.
description: Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Fermionic Character Sums and the Corner Transfer Matrix
Creators: name: Melzer, Ezer
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a ``natural finitization'' of the fermionic q-series (certain generalizations of the Rogers-Ramanujan sums) which were recently conjectured to be equal to Virasoro characters of the unitary minimal conformal field theory (CFT) M(p,p+1). Within the quasi-particle interpretation of the fermionic q-series this finitization amounts to introducing an ultraviolet cutoff, which -- contrary to a lattice spacing -- does not modify the linear dispersion relation. The resulting polynomials are conjectured (proven, for p=3,4) to be equal to corner transfer matrix (CTM) sums which arise in the computation of order parameters in regime III of the r=p+1 RSOS model of Andrews, Baxter, and Forrester. Following Schur's proof of the Rogers-Ramanujan identities, these authors have shown that the infinite-lattice limit of the CTM sums gives what later became known as the Rocha-Caridi formula for the Virasoro characters. Thus we provide a proof of the fermionic q-series representation for the Virasoro characters for p=4 (the case p=3 is ``trivial''), in addition to extending the remarkable connection between CFT and off-critical RSOS models. We also discuss finitizations of the CFT modular-invariant partition functions.
description: 24/15 pages in harvmac, Stony Brook preprint ITP-SB-93-29
Optimal Persuasion under Confirmation Bias
Creators: name: Christensen, Love
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Economics
subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This is the repository for the pre-registered report "Optimal Persuasion under Confirmation Bias"
Gas- Oil Ratio Prediction Using Machine Learning Procedures for Niger Delta Region
Creators: name: Ijeoma I. Mbachu, Abraham O. Peter
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The laboratory measurement of Gas-Oil Ratio (GOR) is highly expensive and time consuming, hence the use of predictivemodels like empirical correlations, equation of state and artificial intelligent tools. The solution gas–oil ratio (GOR) is thequantity of gas dissolved at reservoir pressures in reservoir fluids. This study adopted two machine learning procedures ofArtificial Neural Network (ANN) and Support Vector Machine (SVM) to predict GOR. A total number of 852 data set wasobtained from PVT report from Niger-Delta, out of which, 70% (596) were used to train the models, 15% (127) for testing and15% (127) for validation. Quantitative and qualitativeanalysis were carried out to compare the performance and reliability of thenew developed machining learning models with some selected empirical correlations. The result revealed that the ArtificialNeural Network performed better than the Support Vector Machine (SVM) as well as some common selected GORcorrelations.ANN performed better than other evaluated tool with the best rank of 0.139, highest correlation coefficient of 0.98,Mean Absolute Error (Ea) of 0.41, with a better performance plot, followed by Support Vector Machine model with correlationcoefficient of 0.95, Mean Absolute Error (Ea) of 0.163 and the rank of 0.1616. Obomanu and Okpobiri (1947) performed betterthan other evaluated empirical correlations with the Rank of 0.1751 and correlation coefficient 0.95.This study recommendsObomanu and Okpobiri (1947) correlation to be used to predict GOR for Niger Delta region in absence of this new intelligenttool developed in this research.The new developed Artificial Neural Network model can potentially replace the empiricalmodels for gas-oil ratio predictions for Niger Delta region for quick predictions and higher accuracy.
MPEC 2024-F03 : 2024 ER4
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 ER4

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Health impact of exposure to asbestos in polluted area of Southern Italy
Creators: name: Vimercati, Luigi
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2019

description: The three main sources of asbestos pollution in the city of Bari, Puglia, the former Fibronit asbestos factory, the Torre Quetta beach, the former Rossani barracks and the history of their reclamation are described. The results of cohort studies on factory workers and case-control studies on asbestos exposure to the resident population and the onset of mesothelioma are also reported. Finally, the data of the regional register of mesothelioma related to residents in the city of Bari and four new cases with environmental exposure due to the former Rossani barracks are presented.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 60 No 4 (2019): 2019604
Near-infrared imaging of the host galaxies of three radio-loud quasars at z = 1.5
Creators: name: Falomo, Renato
name: Kotilainen, Jari
name: Treves, Aldo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics (astro-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present high spatial resolution near-infrared H-band (1.65 microns) images, taken with ISAAC on UT1 of ESO VLT, of three radio-loud quasars at z = 1.5, as a pilot study for imaging of a larger sample of radio-loud and radio-quiet quasars in the redshift range 1 < z < 2. We are able to clearly detect the host galaxy in two quasars (PKS 0000-177 and PKS 0348-120) and marginally in the third (PKS 0402-362). The host galaxies appear compact (average bulge scale-length R(e) = 4 kpc) and luminous (average M(H) = -27.6+-0.1). They are 2.5 mag more luminous than the typical galaxy luminosity (M*(H) = -25.0+-0.2), and are comparable to the hosts of low redshift radio-loud quasars (M(H) = -26), taking into account passive stellar evolution. Their luminosities are also similar to those of high redshift radio galaxies. All three quasars have at least one close companion galaxy at a projected distance < 50 kpc from the quasar, assuming they are at the same redshift.
description: 11 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal
Pfaffian-like ground state for 3-body-hard-core bosons in 1D lattices
Creators: name: Paredes, B.
name: Keilmann, T.
name: Cirac, J. I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2006
Subjects: subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a Pfaffian-like Ansatz for the ground state of bosons subject to 3-body infinite repulsive interactions in a 1D lattice. Our Ansatz consists of the symmetrization over all possible ways of distributing the particles in two identical Tonks-Girardeau gases. We support the quality of our Ansatz with numerical calculations and propose an experimental scheme based on mixtures of bosonic atoms and molecules in 1D optical lattices in which this Pfaffian-like state could be realized. Our findings may open the way for the creation of non-abelian anyons in 1D systems.
title: ADCO, Cartulaire de l'office de la Porte de l'abbaye de Cîteaux, Registrum possessionum porte Cistercii (début XVe siècle), Cart. 172 (11 H 69), 115 folios, f. 0066
Creators: name: de la Côte d'Or, Archives départementales
name: Archives Départementales De La Côte-D'Or
name: Petot, Frédérique
name: Projet CBMA
name: CG21/F.PETOT/2012
name: Petot, Frédéric
Publisher: name: NAKALA - https://nakala.fr (Huma-Num - CNRS)
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/04ces3204
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: LaMOP
subject: Laboratoire de Médiévistique Occidentale de Paris
subject: cartulaire
subject: Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi
subject: Chartes de la Bourgogne du Moyen Âge

description: Cartulaire de l'office de la Porte de l'abbaye de Cîteaux, Registrum possessionum porte Cistercii (début XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 172 (11 H 69), 115 folios, f. 0066, Numérisation en mode image.
description: Relation: http://www.cbma-project.eu/
description: Bibliographic citation: Cartulaire de l'office de la Porte de l'abbaye de Cîteaux, Registrum possessionum porte Cistercii (début XVe siècle), Archives départementales de la Côte-d'Or, Cart. 172 (11 H 69), 115 folios, f. 0066, in Projet CBMA - Corpus Burgundiae Medii Aevi [Ressource en ligne], https:// manuscrits.cbma-project.eu/
description: Provenance: https://www.geonames.org/3024876
description: Provenance: http://www.idref.fr/030974844/id
description: Provenance: https://catalogue.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb12228351v
description: Provenance: abbaye de Cîteaux
description: Provenance: http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q843261
Prevalence, trends and risk factors of thinness among Greek children and adolescents
Creators: name: Tambalis, Konstantinos D
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2019

description: Introduction: Thinness affects more children and adolescents than obesity. Thus, the aim of the study is to present the recent estimates of thinness, the secular trend prevalence and associated risk factors, in Greek schoolchildren. Methods: Epidemiological study. Population data from the recent estimates are derived from a school-based health survey polled in 2015 on 336,014 participants aged 4- to 17-year-old. Secular trend (1996-2015) participants included a total of 300,104 children aged 8- to 9-year-old. Physical activity, dietary habits and sedentary activities were assessed through self-completed questionnaires. The gender and age-specific body mass index cut-off points proposed by International Obesity Task Force were used in order to define weight groups. Results: Percent 8.4 % of girls and 6.5% of boys were thin (all grades included). The prevalence of thinness decreased with age more in boys (from 13.8% at 4-year-old to 5.1% at 17-year-old, p < 0.001), than in girls (from 10.9% at 4-year-old to 8.7% at 17-year-old, p<0.001). Sufficient dietary habits (OR: 0.87, 95%CI: 0.77-0.97) and adequate physical activity levels (OR = 0.92, 95% CI: 0.85-0.99) associated with decreased risk of thinness. Thin schoolchildren performed better in aerobic fitness test than normalweight ones. Between 1996 and 2015, thinness rates decreased from 8.0% to 6.5% in boys (p = 0.046) and from 10.6% to 8.4% in girls (p = 0.036). Conclusions: Thinness is an overlooked phenomenon, which prevalence rates seem to decrease in Greece. Actions need to be taken from public policy makers in order to establish and maintain a healthy body weight in schoolchildren.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 60 No 4 (2019): 2019604
The Survey of Water and Ammonia in the Galactic Center (SWAG): Molecular Cloud Evolution in the Central Molecular Zone
Creators: name: Krieger, Nico
name: Ott, Jürgen
name: Beuther, Henrik
name: Walter, Fabian
name: Kruijssen, J. M. Diederik
name: Meier, David S.
name: Mills, Elisabeth A. C.
name: Contreras, Yanett
name: Edwards, Phil
name: Ginsburg, Adam
name: Henkel, Christian
name: Henshaw, Jonathan
name: Jackson, James
name: Kauffmann, Jens
name: Longmore, Steven
name: Martin, Sergio
name: Morris, Mark R.
name: Pillai, Thushara
name: Rickert, Matthew
name: Rosolowsky, Erik
name: Shinnaga, Hiroko
name: Walsh, Andrew
name: Yusef-Zadeh, Farhad
name: Zhang, Qizhou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Survey of Water and Ammonia in the Galactic Center (SWAG) covers the Central Molecular Zone (CMZ) of the Milky Way at frequencies between 21.2 and 25.4 GHz obtained at the Australia Telescope Compact Array at $\sim 0.9$ pc spatial and $\sim 2.0$ km s$^{-1}$ spectral resolution. In this paper, we present data on the inner $\sim 250$ pc ($1.4^\circ$) between Sgr C and Sgr B2. We focus on the hyperfine structure of the metastable ammonia inversion lines (J,K) = (1,1) - (6,6) to derive column density, kinematics, opacity and kinetic gas temperature. In the CMZ molecular clouds, we find typical line widths of $8-16$ km s$^{-1}$ and extended regions of optically thick ($τ> 1$) emission. Two components in kinetic temperature are detected at $25-50$ K and $60-100$ K, both being significantly hotter than dust temperatures throughout the CMZ. We discuss the physical state of the CMZ gas as traced by ammonia in the context of the orbital model by Kruijssen et al. (2015) that interprets the observed distribution as a stream of molecular clouds following an open eccentric orbit. This allows us to statistically investigate the time dependencies of gas temperature, column density and line width. We find heating rates between $\sim 50$ and $\sim 100$ K Myr$^{-1}$ along the stream orbit. No strong signs of time dependence are found for column density or line width. These quantities are likely dominated by cloud-to-cloud variations. Our results qualitatively match the predictions of the current model of tidal triggering of cloud collapse, orbital kinematics and the observation of an evolutionary sequence of increasing star formation activity with orbital phase.
description: 68 pages, 44 figures, accepted for publication in ApJS; slightly compressed images due to file size limitations, high resolution available at http://www2.mpia-hd.mpg.de/homes/krieger/data/Krieger_SWAG.pdf
MPEC 2024-F04 : 2024 ES4
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2024 ES4

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Topological closed-string interpretation of Chern-Simons theory
Creators: name: Periwal, Vipul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 1993
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The exact free energy of SU($N$) Chern-Simons theory at level $k$ is expanded in powers of $(N+k)^{-2}.$ This expansion keeps rank-level duality manifest, and simplifies as $k$ becomes large, keeping $N$ fixed (or vice versa)---this is the weak-coupling (strong-coupling) limit. With the standard normalization, the free energy on the three-sphere in this limit is shown to be the generating function of the Euler characteristics of the moduli spaces of surfaces of genus $g,$ providing a string interpretation for the perturbative expansion. A similar expansion is found for the three-torus, with differences that shed light on contributions from different spacetime topologies in string theory.
description: 6 pages, iassns-hep-93-30 (title change, omitted refs. added, two sign errors corrected, no significant change)
Estimates of the incidence of infection-related cancers in Italy and Italian regions in 2018
Creators: name: De Flora, Silvio
name: LA MAESTRA, SEBASTIANO
name: CROCETTI, EMANUELE
name: MANGONE, LUCIA
name: BIANCONI, FORTUNATO
name: STRACCI, FABRIZIO
name: BUZZONI, CARLOTTA
Publisher: name: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene
Year: 2019

description: Introduction. Chronic infections and infestations represent one of the leading causes of cancer. Eleven agents have been categorized by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) in Group 1, 3 in Group 2A and 4 in Group 2B. We previously estimated that the incidence of cancers associated with infectious agents accounted for the 8.5% of new cancer cases diagnosed in Italy in 2014. Methods. In the present study we evaluated the incidence of cancer in Italy and in the 20 Italian regions in 2018, based on the data of Cancer Registries, and calculated the fraction attributable to infectious agents. Results. Cancers of infectious origin contributed to the overall burden of cancer in Italy with more than 27,000 yearly cases, the 92% of which was attributable to Helicobacter pylori, human papillomaviruses, and hepatitis B and C viruses. With the exception of papillomavirus-related cancers, the incidence of cancers of infectious origin was higher in males (16,000 cases) than in females (11,000 cases). There were regional and geographical variations of cancers depending on the type of cancer and on the gender. Nevertheless, the overall figures were rather similar, the infection-related cancers accounting for the 7.2, 7.6, and 7.1% of all cancers in Northern, Central, and Southern Italy, respectively. Conclusions. The estimate of the incidence of cancers attributable to infectious agents in Italy in 2018 (7.3% of all cancer cases) is approximately half of the worldwide burden, which has been estimated by IARC to be the 15.4% of all cancer cases in 2012.
description: Journal of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene, Vol 60 No 4 (2019): 2019604