Closed-cycle management strategy for hospital infection prevention and control in the designated dental hospital for the Winter (Paralympic) Olympic Games to receive emergency dent... by AN Na (安娜), CHEN Qiujing (陈秋静), HU Feng (呼峰), XUE Liang (薛亮), MA Yong (马泳), XIA Dengsheng (夏登胜)

“…Our hospital was the designated oral medical institution during the Winter (Paralympic) Olympics, and nosocomial infection control was a formidable challenge for medical staff. In this paper, referring to the infection prevention and control standards of the emergency department of the dental specialist hospital, combined with the situation of the COVID-19, a dedicated isolation channel and independent consultation room for Olympic-related patients and medical staff were set up; Medical staff (the training pass rate was 100%)strictly took personal protection before and after treatment and during treatment, and the diagnosis and treatment areas (surfaces of items, reused medical equipment, and so on) were strictly disinfected, and a total of 38 patients were admitted. …”
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Whole-genome amplification as a tool to improve bacterial detection by PCR in microbiological samples after endodontic treatment by Gabriela Ceccon Chianca, Gabriela Ceccon Chianca, Caroline Corrêa Fendeler, Caroline Corrêa Fendeler, Sérgio Pinto Chaves Junior, Sérgio Pinto Chaves Junior, Gabriella Lorena Dias Pereira, Helvécio Cardoso Corrêa Póvoa, Helvécio Cardoso Corrêa Póvoa, Helvécio Cardoso Corrêa Póvoa, Lívia Azeredo Alves Antunes, Lívia Azeredo Alves Antunes, Lívia Azeredo Alves Antunes, Leonardo Santos Antunes, Leonardo Santos Antunes, Leonardo Santos Antunes, Natalia Lopes Pontes Póvoa Iorio, Natalia Lopes Pontes Póvoa Iorio, Natalia Lopes Pontes Póvoa Iorio

“…Microbiological samples were collected before and after CMP using paper points, which were separated into two groups: (i) culture assay samples were plated onto Brucella agar with 5% defibrinated sheep's blood, menadione and hemin and incubated anaerobically for 14 days at 36°C; (ii) DNA was extracted from molecular assay samples and subject to WGA by isothermal strand displacement with Phi29 DNA polymerase followed by PCR to determine the presence of bacteria.ResultsIn both assays, samples before CMP showed the presence of bacteria in all 10 teeth. …”
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NL-Augmenter: A Framework for Task-Sensitive Natural Language Augmentation by Kaustubh Dhole, Varun Gangal, Sebastian Gehrmann, Aadesh Gupta, Zhenhao Li, Saad Mahamood, Abinaya Mahadiran, Simon Mille, Ashish Shrivastava, Samson Tan, Tongshang Wu, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein, Jinho Choi, Eduard Hovy, Ondřej Dušek, Sebastian Ruder, Sajant Anand, Nagender Aneja, Rabin Banjade, Lisa Barthe, Hanna Behnke, Ian Berlot-Attwell, Connor Boyle, Caroline Brun, Marco Antonio Sobrevilla Cabezudo, Samuel Cahyawijaya, Emile Chapuis, Wanxiang Che, Mukund Choudhary, Christian Clauss, Pierre Colombo, Filip Cornell, Gautier Dagan, Mayukh Das, Tanay Dixit, Thomas Dopierre, Paul-Alexis Dray, Suchitra Dubey, Tatiana Ekeinhor, Marco Di Giovanni, Tanya Goyal, Rishabh Gupta, Louanes Hamla, Sang Han, Fabrice Harel-Canada, Antoine Honoré, Ishan Jindal, Przemysław Joniak, Denis Kleyko, Venelin Kovatchev, Kalpesh Krishna, Ashutosh Kumar, Stefan Langer, Seungjae Ryan Lee, Corey James Levinson, Hualou Liang, Kaizhao Liang, Zhexiong Liu, Andrey Lukyanenko, Vukosi Marivate, Gerard de Melo, Simon Meoni, Maxine Meyer, Afnan Mir, Nafise Sadat Moosavi, Niklas Meunnighoff, Timothy Sum Hon Mun, Kenton Murray, Marcin Namysl, Maria Obedkova, Priti Oli, Nivranshu Pasricha, Jan Pfister, Richard Plant, Vinay Prabhu, Vasile Pais, Libo Qin, Shahab Raji, Pawan Kumar Rajpoot, Vikas Raunak, Roy Rinberg, Nicholas Roberts, Juan Diego Rodriguez, Claude Roux, Vasconcellos Samus, Ananya Sai, Robin Schmidt, Thomas Scialom, Tshephisho Sefara, Saqib Shamsi, Xudong Shen, Yiwen Shi, Haoyue Shi, Anna Shvets, Nick Siegel, Damien Sileo, Jamie Simon, Chandan Singh, Roman Sitelew, Priyank Soni, Taylor Sorensen, William Soto, Aman Srivastava, Aditya Srivatsa, Tony Sun, Mukund Varma, A Tabassum, Fiona Tan, Ryan Teehan, Mo Tiwari, Marie Tolkiehn, Athena Wang, Zijian Wang, Zijie Wang, Gloria Wang, Fuxuan Wei, Bryan Wilie, Genta Indra Winata, Xinyu Wu, Witold Wydmanski, Tianbao Xie, Usama Yaseen, Michael Yee, Jing Zhang, Yue Zhang

“… Data augmentation is an important method for evaluating the robustness of and enhancing the diversity of training data for natural language processing (NLP) models. In this paper, we present NL-Augmenter, a new participatory Python-based natural language (NL) augmentation framework which supports the creation of transformations (modifications to the data) and filters (data splits according to specific features). …”
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Newborn Screening Program for Cystic Fibrosis in Türkiye: Experiences from False-Negative Tests and Requirement for Optimization by Fevziye Çoksüer, Gökçen Kartal Öztürk, Handan Duman Şenol, Meral Barlık, Mehmet Mustafa Özaslan, Bahar Girgin Dindar, Ece Ocak, Ece Halis, Şükrü Atacan Öğütcü, Figen Gülen, Esen Demir

“…Methods: Screening for CF was conducted in accordance with the national CF-NBS program within 48-72 hours of birth by collecting a few drops of heel blood on Guthrie paper. A cut-off value of 90 µg/l was accepted for the first IRT, while 70 µg/l was accepted for the second sample. …”
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Recycling efficiency optimization of tungsten-filled Vinyl-Methyl-Silicone-based flexible gamma ray shielding materials by Tao Wu, Jie Wang, Qiuyu Sun, Yifan Yang, Qingyu Si, Chenyu Liang, Guoming Liu, Aijun Mi, Sheng Wang

“…Considering the recycling of resources, the optimization of pyrolysis temperature and pyrolysis duration of tungsten-filled Vinyl-Methyl-Silicone-based flexible shielding materials needs to be studied. In this paper, these tungsten-filled Vinyl-Methyl-Silicone-based flexible shielding materials were initially recycled using pyrolysis. …”
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Preindustrial-to-present-day changes in atmospheric carbon monoxide: agreement and gaps between ice archives and global model reconstructions by X. Faïn, S. Szopa, V. Naïk, P. Martinerie, D. M. Etheridge, D. M. Etheridge, R. H. Rhodes, C. M. Trudinger, C. M. Trudinger, V. V. Petrenko, K. Fourteau, P. Place, P. Place

“…Over the 1980–2010 CE period (common era; all subsequent years in the paper are reported in CE), trends in ice archive and firn air observations and AerChemMIP outputs align remarkably well at northern and southern high latitudes, indicating improved quantification of anthropogenic CO emissions and the main CO sink (OH oxidation) compared to ACCMIP. …”
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Protocol of the TransformUs SecondaryTeachers’ perceptions of the program reach, effectiveness,adoption, implementation and maintenance schools program: a type II hybrid implementa... by Harriet Koorts, Anna Timperio, Jo Salmon, David Revalds Lubans, Gavin Abbott, Nicola D Ridgers, Natalie Lander, Ana María Contardo Ayala, Emiliano Mazzoli

“…TransformUs, an effective and cost-effective whole-of-school programme for promoting primary school children’s physical activity and reducing sedentary behaviour, has been adapted for secondary schools (TransformUs Secondary). The aim of this paper is to describe the protocol for TransformUs Secondary in relation to implementation and scale-up across Australia, and the real-world effectiveness of the intervention on adolescents’ physical activity and sedentary time, as well as sitting time, sleep, well-being and class and school engagement.Methods and analysis A type II hybrid implementation-effectiveness trial will be conducted using a mixed-methods design. …”
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New Torsional Surface Elastic Waves in Cylindrical Metamaterial Waveguides for Sensing Applications by Piotr Kiełczyński, Krzysztof Wieja, Andrzej Balcerzak

“…In this paper, we demonstrate that torsional surface elastic waves can propagate along the curved surface of a metamaterial elastic rod (cylinder) embedded in a conventional elastic medium. …”
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Estimación de la cubierta de nieve en el norte de la provincia del Neuquén. by Marisa Gloria Cogliati, Damián Groch, Florencia Gisella Finessi

“…Determining snow area is particularly important during spring and summer in mountainous land where, snow can be melted quickly causing large spatial variations in the mixed cover of snow, vegetation and soil. This paper present the utilization of a binary method for the calculation of the snow covered area in the Andes, in the northern of the Neuquén province using LANDSAT imagery and MOD10A1 MODIS products for two satellite scenes one summer scene and a winter one both from year 2000. …”
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A Candidate High-velocity Exoplanet System in the Galactic Bulge by Sean K. Terry, Jean-Philippe Beaulieu, David P. Bennett, Aparna Bhattacharya, Jon Hulberg, Macy J. Huston, Naoki Koshimoto, Joshua W. Blackman, Ian A. Bond, Andrew A. Cole, Jessica R. Lu, Clément Ranc, Natalia E. Rektsini, Aikaterini Vandorou

“…The original discovery paper by Bennett et al. reports two possibilities for the lens system: a nearby gas giant lens with an exomoon companion or a very low-mass star with a planetary companion in the Galactic bulge. …”
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Cross-Gendering the Racial Memory by Marlon B. Ross

“…Lacking the economic resources for such a luxury of patriarchal imagination, black nationalist practice most frequently resorts to more figurative embodiments of the gigantic feminine in art, poetry, song, and dance.Gaines’s gigantic female who voices and embodies black American epochal and epical history, Miss Jane Pittman, is cast as novel and film (1974) at the height of the black nationalist moment, when metaphorical she/males emblematizing the masculine heroism of black nation-building are proliferating all over the place in black popular culture. This paper analyzes Miss Jane Pittman in this historical context of the black nationalist gigantic female icon. …”
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Cluster Candidates with Massive Quiescent Galaxies at z ∼ 2 by Tomokazu Kiyota, Makoto Ando, Masayuki Tanaka, Alexis Finoguenov, Sadman Shariar Ali, Jean Coupon, Guillaume Desprez, Stephen Gwyn, Marcin Sawicki, Rhythm Shimakawa

“…However, due to their rarity, only a limited number of clusters have been identified at z  ≳ 2. In this paper, we report a discovery of seven cluster candidates with massive quiescent galaxies at z  ∼ 2 in the 3.5 deg ^2 area of the XMM Large Scale Structure field, roughly doubling the known cluster sample at this frontier redshift if confirmed. …”
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Numerical Semigroups with a Fixed Fundamental Gap by María Ángeles Moreno-Frías, José Carlos Rosales

“…</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> A <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi mathvariant="script">B</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>a</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>-irreducible numerical semigroup is an element of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi mathvariant="script">B</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>a</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> that cannot be expressed as an intersection of two elements of <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi mathvariant="script">B</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>a</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> containing it properly. In this paper, we will study the <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi mathvariant="script">B</mi><mo>(</mo><mi>a</mi><mo>)</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>-irreducible numerical semigroups. …”
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HESS Opinions: Towards a common vision for the future of hydrological observatories by P. Nasta, G. Blöschl, G. Blöschl, H. R. Bogena, S. Zacharias, R. Baatz, G. De Lannoy, K. H. Jensen, S. Manfreda, L. Pfister, L. Pfister, A. M. Tarquis, I. van Meerveld, M. Voltz, Y. Zeng, W. Kustas, X. Li, H. Vereecken, N. Romano

“…To this end, a common vision and practical data management solutions need to be developed. This opinion paper provocatively discusses two potential endmembers of a future hydrological observatory (HO) network based on a given hypothesized community budget: a comprehensive set of moderately instrumented observatories or, alternatively, a small number of highly instrumented supersites.…”
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大學教師學術發表影響力之影響因素 Factors Influencing Publication Impact of Faculty by 郭玲玲 Ling-Ling Kueh, 許清芳 Ching-Fan Sheu

“…Faculty members often co-author research papers with their graduate students (Henriksen, 2016). …”
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Study protocol for Video Images about Decisions to Improve Ethical Outcomes with Palliative Care Educators (VIDEO-PCE): a pragmatic stepped wedge cluster randomised trial of older... by Joshua R Lakin, Na Wang, Howard J Cabral, Michael K Paasche-Orlow, Charlotta Lindvall, Angelo Volandes, Aretha Delight Davis, Michael R Winter, Edward T Moseley, Lori Henault, Sophia N Zupanc, Sophiya Das, Kate Sciacca, Edith A Burns, Maria T Carney, Jennifer Itty, Santiago Lopez, Kaitlin Emmert, Narda J Martin, Sherene Lambert, Jennifer Polo, Shreya Sanghani, Julianne N Dugas, Michele Gomez, Shira Gabry-Kalikow, Alexandra Dobie, Meredith Amshoff, Traci Cucinotta, Milton Joel, Lisa B Caruso, Ana Maria Ramirez, Kathleen Salerno, Qausarat Ogunneye

“…To address this gap, we designed an intervention to promote goals-of-care conversations and palliative care referrals in the hospital setting by using trained palliative care educators and video decision aids. This paper presents the rationale, design and methods for a trial aimed at addressing barriers to goals-of-care conversations for hospitalised adults aged 65 and older and those with Alzheimer’s disease and related Dementias, regardless of age.Methods and analysis The Video Image about Decisions to Improve Ethical Outcomes with Palliative Care Educators is a pragmatic stepped wedge, cluster randomised controlled trial, which aims to improve and extend goals-of-care conversations in the hospital setting with palliative care educators trained in serious illness communication and video decision aids. …”
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Wireless Sensor Network of Typical Land Surface Parameters and Its Preliminary Applications for Coarse-Resolution Remote Sensing Pixel by Baocheng Dou, Jianguang Wen, Xiuhong Li, Qiang Liu, Jingjing Peng, Qing Xiao, Zhigang Zhang, Yong Tang, Xiaodan Wu, Xingwen Lin, Dongqin You, Hua Li, Li Li, Yelu Zeng, Erli Cai, Jialin Zhang

“…How to obtain the “truth” of land surface parameter as reference value to validate the remote sensing retrieved parameter in heterogeneous scene and coarse-resolution pixel is one of the most challenging topics in environmental studies. In this paper, a distributed sensor network system named CPP-WSN was established to capture the spatial and temporal variation of land surface parameters at coarse-resolution satellite pixel scale around the Huailai Remote Sensing Station, which locates in the North China Plain. …”
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Editorial by Lindsay B. Flynn

“…The authors find some level of support that housing is – at least in terms of identifying the need for public attention – a potential locus of intergenerational solidarity. The discussion paper by Elena Lutz identifies a two-pronged strategy to address the affordability challenges that young cohorts face in the German housing market. …”
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Data recording and use of data tools for pig health management: perspectives of stakeholders in pig farming by Xiao Zhou, Andrea Knörr, Beatriz Garcia Morante, Beatriz Garcia Morante, Beatriz Garcia Morante, Carla Correia-Gomes, Lucia Dieste Pérez, Joaquim Segalés, Joaquim Segalés, Joaquim Segalés, Marina Sibila, Marina Sibila, Marina Sibila, Carles Vilalta, Carles Vilalta, Carles Vilalta, Alison Burrell, Tijs Tobias, Michael Siegrist, Angela Bearth

“…Most of the data was more frequently recorded electronically than on paper. In general, the “benchmarking tool” was perceived as useful for the management of infectious respiratory and gastrointestinal diseases, and the “early-warning tool” was evaluated as useful for the management of infectious respiratory diseases. …”
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Geohazard features of the Gulf of Naples and Pontine Islands (Eastern Tyrrhenian Sea) by Francesca Budillon, Eleonora Martorelli, Alessandro Conforti, Giovanni De Falco, Alessandro Bosman, Gabriella Di Martino, Marco Firetto Carlino, Martina Misuraca, Sara Innangi, Martina Pierdomenico, Andrea Sposato, Renato Tonielli, Daniele Casalbore, Roberto Capperucci, Aida Maria Conte, Francesco G. Falese, Michela Ingrassia, Ennio Marsella, Cristian Montanaro, Eleonora Morelli, Roberto Sisinni, Francesco L. Chiocci

“…In this paper, we describe the geohazard-related elements of the Eastern Tyrrhenian Sea continental margin, situated between the 40° and 41° North latitude. …”
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