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Attitudes of Costa Rican individuals towards donation of personal genetic data for research.
Gabriela Chavarria-Soley, Fernanda Francis-Cartin, Fabiola Jimenez-Gonzalez, Alejandro Ávila-Aguirre, Maria Jose Castro-Gomez, Lauren Robarts, Anna Middleton, Henriette Raventós
Mar 18, 2021
Aim: We explore attitudes from the public in Costa Rica regarding willingness to donate DNA data for research. Materials & methods: A total of 224 Costa Rican individuals answered the anonymous online survey 'Your DNA, Your...
Attitudes of Costa Rican individuals towards donation of personal genetic data for research
Gabriela Chavarria-Soley, Fernanda Francis-Cartin, Fabiola Jimenez-Gonzalez, Alejandro Ávila-Aguirre, Maria Jose Castro-Gomez, Lauren Robarts, Anna Middleton, Henriette Raventós
Feb 12, 2021
Aim: We explore attitudes from the public in Costa Rica regarding willingness to donate DNA data for research. Materials & methods: A total of 224 Costa Rican individuals answered the anonymous online survey ‘Your DNA, Your...
Mechanical Properties of MJ-Class Toroidal Magnet Wound by Composite HTS Conductor
An MJ-class superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) system has a wide range of potential applications in electric power systems. The composite high-temperature superconducting HTS conductor, which has the advantages of...
Composite HTS conductor Equivalent material properties Mechanical analysis Sequential coupling SMEs /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2500/2504 name=Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100/3104 name=Condensed Matter Physics /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2208 name=Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Mechanical Properties of MJ-Class Toroidal Magnet Wound by Composite HTS Conductor
An MJ-class superconducting magnetic energy storage (SMES) system has a wide range of potential applications in electric power systems. The composite high-temperature superconducting HTS conductor, which has the advantages of...
Composite HTS conductor Equivalent material properties Mechanical analysis Sequential coupling SMEs /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2500/2504 name=Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3100/3104 name=Condensed Matter Physics /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2200/2208 name=Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Attitudes of Costa Rican individuals towards donation of personal genetic data for research
Gabriela Chavarria-Soley, Fernanda Francis-Cartin, Fabiola Jimenez-Gonzalez, Alejandro Ávila-Aguirre, Maria Jose Castro-Gomez, Lauren Robarts, Anna Middleton, Henriette Raventós
Feb 26, 2021
Aim: We explore attitudes from the public in Costa Rica regarding willingness to donate DNA data for research. Materials & methods: A total of 224 Costa Rican individuals answered the anonymous online survey ‘Your DNA, Your...
Los Matices Varios del Feminismo en las Comunidades Indígenas de América Latina: Yorkín, Costa Rica y Santa Anita, Guatemala
Roseangela G Hartford
Jan 01, 0001
This project investigates gender constructs and the complex assigned gender roles in settings of female indigenous leadership in Latin America. It examines two distinct indigenous communities, including the BriBri society in...
indigenous peoples Guatemala feminism masculine domination Femininity Costa Rica leadership Arts and Humanities Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Latin American Studies Leadership Studies Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature
Published by: Ursinus College
Water Quality and Biomonitoring in the Río Lagarto, Costa Rica
Bozeman Dominique, Stephanie Colburn, Laura Gibbs, Jessica Hunnicutt, Lauren Miller, Savannah Moritzky, Ariba Naz, Cynthia Snelling, Leigha Snelling, Leigha Stahl, Leighton Wise
Jan 01, 0001
Every odd-year in March, from 2005-2015, the Río Lagarto, Costa Rica has been surveyed by students in Tropical Watersheds and Coastal Ecology. The Río Lagarto originates at approximately 1,500 m in the Monteverde cloudforest...
Published by: Winthrop University
Time Dependence of Few-Body Forster Interactions Among Ultracold Rydberg Atoms
Rubidium Rydberg atoms in either |mj| sublevel of the 36p3/2 state can exchange energy via Stark-tuned Förster resonances, including two-, three-, and four-body dipole-dipole interactions. Three-body interactions of this type...
dipolar gases long-range interactions optical lattices traps ultracold collisions Rydberg Atoms Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics
Published by: Ursinus College
Geometric general solution to the U(1) anomaly equations
Abstract: Costa et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett.123 (2019) 151601] recently gave a general solution to the anomaly equations for n charges in a U(1) gauge theory. ‘Primitive’ solutions of chiral fermion charges were parameterised and it...
Costa, cancer and coronavirus
Lockdown measures in response to the COVID-19 pandemic involve placing huge burdens on some members of society for the sake of benefiting other members of society. How should we decide when these policies are permissible? Many...
Geometric general solution to the U(1) anomaly equations
Abstract: Costa et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett.123 (2019) 151601] recently gave a general solution to the anomaly equations for n charges in a U(1) gauge theory. ‘Primitive’ solutions of chiral fermion charges were parameterised and it...
Investigating Female Indigenous Leadership in Latin America
Roseangela G Hartford
Jan 01, 0001
This project investigates gender constructs and the complex assigned gender roles in settings of female indigenous leadership in Latin America. It examines two distinct indigenous communities, including the BriBri society in...
indigenous leadership Gender Studies women's rights masculinity Education Arts and Humanities Indigenous Studies Latin American Languages and Societies Leadership Studies Spanish and Portuguese Language and Literature Women's Studies
Published by: Ursinus College
Branched ketone biofuels as blending agents for Jet-A1 aviation kerosene
Joseph Donnelly, Richard Horton, Kesavan Gopalan, Christopher D. Bannister, Christopher J. Chuck
Jan 21, 2016
In this investigation a range of ketone biofuels produced from the alkylation of isoamyl alcohol and isobutanol were examined as potential blending agents with Jet A-1 aviation kerosene. The fuels were synthesized under...
Geometric general solution to the U(1) anomaly equations
Abstract: Costa et al. [Phys. Rev. Lett.123 (2019) 151601] recently gave a general solution to the anomaly equations for n charges in a U(1) gauge theory. ‘Primitive’ solutions of chiral fermion charges were parameterised and it...
Disentangling the quantum world
Correlations related to quantum entanglement have convinced many physicists that there must be some at-a-distance connection between separated events, at the quantum level. In the late 1940s, however, O. Costa de Beauregard...
Branched ketone biofuels as blending agents for Jet-A1 aviation kerosene
Joseph Donnelly, Richard Horton, Kesavan Gopalan, Christopher D. Bannister, Christopher J. Chuck
Jan 21, 2016
In this investigation a range of ketone biofuels produced from the alkylation of isoamyl alcohol and isobutanol were examined as potential blending agents with Jet A-1 aviation kerosene. The fuels were synthesized under...
Paleoclimate of Pleistocene Epoch Costa Rica: Grain Size, AMS, and MAR Analyses That Explore the Behavior of the Intertropical Convergence Zone (ITCZ), Prevailing Winds, and Ocean Circulation Over the Last Two Million Years
Catherine R Buczek
Jan 01, 0001
Paleoclimate studies enable us to understand the past climate of Earth and, in turn, help us understand present-day climate. In addition, paleoclimate studies can help us predict future climate in a world with ever increasing...
paleoclimate climate change ocean Sediment Circulation core samples climate Environmental Sciences Physical Sciences and Mathematics sedimentology
Published by: Ursinus College
Impact of GAN-based lesion-focused medical image super-resolution on the robustness of radiomic features
Erick Costa de Farias, Christian di Noia, Changhee Han, Evis Sala, Mauro Castelli, Leonardo Rundo
Nov 01, 2021
Abstract: Robust machine learning models based on radiomic features might allow for accurate diagnosis, prognosis, and medical decision-making. Unfortunately, the lack of standardized radiomic feature extraction has hampered...
From private to social cost-benefit analysis
Cement production is linked to heavy environmental load with exigences for reduction and substitution of raw materials and energy demands/sources. Recently, with the potential commercial discovery of natural gas (NG) reserves in...
Cement decision-making life cycle assessment monetization ReCiPe2016 Stepwise2006 /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3305 name=Geography, Planning and Development /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2000/2002 name=Economics and Econometrics /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300/2308 name=Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/affordable_and_clean_energy name=SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action name=SDG 13 - Climate Action /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/responsible_consumption_and_production name=SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
From private to social cost-benefit analysis
Cement production is linked to heavy environmental load with exigences for reduction and substitution of raw materials and energy demands/sources. Recently, with the potential commercial discovery of natural gas (NG) reserves in...
Cement decision-making life cycle assessment monetization ReCiPe2016 Stepwise2006 /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/3300/3305 name=Geography, Planning and Development /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2000/2002 name=Economics and Econometrics /dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300/2308 name=Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/affordable_and_clean_energy name=SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/climate_action name=SDG 13 - Climate Action /dk/atira/pure/sustainabledevelopmentgoals/responsible_consumption_and_production name=SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
The Grizzly, January 28, 2016
Brian Thomas, Deana Harley, Jay Farrell, Chi-e Low, Yuqing Liu, Valerie Osborne, Sarah Hojsak, Berett C Babrich, Sean Campbell, Johnny Cope, Hunter Gellman
Jan 01, 0001
Student Raises Funds to Prevent Suicide Tragedy Prompts Main Street Changes Ursinus Introduces Open Access Publishing System Ursinus Welcomes Alumni as Entrepreneur-in-Residence International Perspective: Differences in...
Ursinus College Collegeville Pennsylvania newspaper Maria Miller Michelle Buck Main Street safety Lever Press Maureen Cumpstone Berman Art Museum Robert Dawley track team gymnastics cultural history Higher Education Liberal Studies Social History United States History
Published by: Ursinus College
Professional duties are now considered legal duties of care within genomic medicine.
Middleton Anna, Patch Christine, Roberts Jonathan, Milne Richard, Costa Alessia, Robarts Lauren, Atutornu Jerome
Jun 22, 2020
The legal duty to protect patient confidentiality is common knowledge amongst healthcare professionals. However, what may not be widely known, is that this duty is not always absolute. In the United Kingdom, both the General...
Silica hollow core microstructured fibres for mid-infrared surgical applications
In this paper two silica hollow core microstructured fibres (Negative Curvature Fibre and Photonic Bandgap Fibre) are presented with attenuations of 0.06 dB/m and 1.1 dB/m at 2.94 μm wavelengths, respectively. This is an...
Quantum Mechanical Interference in the Field Ionization of Rydberg Atoms
Jacob A. Hollingsworth
Jan 01, 0001
Rydberg atoms are traditionally alkali metal atoms with their valence electron excited to a state of very large principle quantum number. They possess exaggerated properties, and are consequently an attractive area of study for...
Avoided Crossing Mach-Zehnder Landau- Zener Stark Map Superposition Rydberg state Hamiltonian quantum control Atomic, Molecular and Optical Physics Physical Sciences and Mathematics Physics
Published by: Ursinus College
Greater improvements in diet quality among overweight participants following a group-based commercial weight loss programme than those receiving support to lose weight in primary care.
Gina L Ambrosini, Ivonne Solis-Trapala, Amy L Ahern, Nicholas R Fuller, Christina Holzapfel, Hans Hauner, Ian D Caterson, Susan A Jebb
Oct 15, 2018
BACKGROUND: Relatively little is known about dietary changes and their relationships with weight change during behavioural weight loss interventions. In a secondary analysis of data from a multicentre RCT, we investigated...
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