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Clinical goals of the VA CHF QUERI identify best practices to empower Veterans and their caregivers for HF self-management. Recommendations of the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association emphasize shared decision-making. In the previous preliminary study, coding of actual recordings of Veterans speaking with HT nurse care coordinators provided evidence of best practices and areas for improvement for intervention development. The effect of the HT technology as a mediator of Veteran-nurse communication requires particular re-framing in communication skills training to promote shared decision-making and self-management as recommended. This quasi-experimental study proposes the development of an evidence-based intervention to enhance HT training tailored for more effective communication for HF self-management and related outcomes. Goals: Phase 1 To conduct a pilot study as a quasi-experimental trial at two VAMC HT sites to determine acceptability, actual use, implementation, practicality, integration, potential for expansion, effect sizes and limited efficacy for an HT-specific communication skills intervention for HF Specific Aim 1.1a Development: Adapt components from the Rochester Participatory Decision-Making Scale (RPAD) and recent advances in communication skills training for chronic disease to develop a valid and reliable intervention specific to HT shared decision-making and telehealth communication using established best-practices and Veteran input; Specific Aim 1.1b Training/Implementation: Implement the developed intervention at two VAMCs; Specific Aim 1.2Booster: Introduce an audit and feedback loop of HF self-management outcomes for telehealth nurse practice as a booster to reinforce communication skills training. Phase 2 To compare changes in Veteran outcomes after a telehealth communication skills intervention with documented previous practice for differences in: a) shared decision-making; b) Veteran perception of communication, education and self-management for HF, c) quality of life, and d) health service utilization and related costs before and after intervention Specific Aim 2.1: Formative Evaluation: Nurses: Conduct anonymous surveys of knowledge of HF and self-management strategies before and after training, qualitative interviews of reactions to the training course, and nurse care coordinator focus groups about the value of audit and feedback sessions after training. Specific Aim 2.2: Formative Evaluation: Veterans - Phone record 25 Veterans with HF at two HT sites, for a total of 50 Veterans, speaking with nurse care coordinators before and after communication skills training followed by communication coding and discourse analysis. Specific Aim 2.3: Summative Evaluation: Compare shared decision-making scores (SDM) measured by the RPAD, communication scores measured by the Four Habits Coding Scheme (FHCS), quality of life (Minnesota Living with Heart Failure Questionnaire), communication, education and self-management in HF as measured by the Improving Chronic Illness Care Evaluation (ICICE) scale, and patient HF hospitalization use (admissions and emergency) and with pre-training averages and with the post training averages at 1 and 3 months Rationale The technology of HT monitoring of Veterans with HF can inadvertently decrease participative communication consistent with shared decision-making and HF self-management. Application of communication skills training using evidence-based coach role competencies promises to improve Veteran engagement and participation in the VA Home Telehealth service with increased self-management and potential improvement in HF health service utilization. Improving engagement and participation in self-management should result in a quantifiably better Veteran quality of life, a reduction in hospital and ED admissions, and thus, a decrease in health care utilization costs for the VA. People with heart failure (HF) are hospitalized over a million times a year in the US at a cost over $39 billion dollars. About half of the patients are readmitted within 30 days. Despite a number of institutional reforms, cost and readmissions remain high in the VA. The VA Home Telehealth (HT) monitoring program decreases preventable readmissions, but HF readmissions remain increased in the VA. Despite an active and effective HT program, the Charleston VAMC has the highest HF readmission rate in VISN 7. Though the HT program introduces communication, self-management, and shared decision-making in initial training, previous QUERI RRP evaluation identified lower than expected levels of specific communication practices associated with the promotion of HF self-management and shared decision-making, mediated by the requirements of the technology.

This corpus contains oral and written experimental production data from a total of 106 sequential bilingual children for whom English was their L2. These children belong to three groups depending on whether their L1 was Spanish (n=33), Bosnian (n=39) or Danish (n=34). Within each language group, two subgroups appear depending on the time of exposure the children have had to the L2 (either 2 or 4 years). The data were collected in the schools the participants attended in the country where they lived (i.e., Spain, Denmark, and Bosnia). The criteria applied when selecting the participants were the following: - both parents and the child had to share the same L1 (Spanish, Bosnian or Danish depending on the group); - the L2 of the participants had to be English (if the participants had an L3 which they started learning as part of the curricula during the 3rd or the 4th year of instruction of the L2, they were not excluded from the study; otherwise, they were excluded); - the participants had only received instruction in the L2 in educational settings; - the participants had received instruction for either 2 or 4 years at their primary school; - the participants who took part in any exchange programs or lived in an English-speaking country for longer than two weeks were excluded from the study. 1. GENERAL INFORMATION 1.1. Title of dataset 1.2. Author information 1.2.1. PI and co-PI 1.2.2. Labs 1.2.3. People involved in the data collection 1.3. Corpus description 1.4. Funding sources 1.5. Citing information 2. ACCESS INFORMATION 2.1. Licenses or restrictions 2.2. Publications 3. METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION 3.1. Data elicitation procedure 3.2. Data transcription procedure 4. DATA 4.1. Inventory of data files 4.2. Database 4.3. Last update 5. RELATED DATASETS 2018-2022: Spanish Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities and European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) [PGC2018-097693-B-I00], Linguistic competence indicators in heritage and non-native languages: linguistic, psycholinguistic and social aspects of English-Spanish bilingualism, PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: R. Fernández Fuertes (University of Valladolid, Spain) 2017-2019: Regional Government of Castile and León (Spain) and ERDF [VA009P17], Aspectos de la dimensión internacional del contacto de lenguas: diagnósticos de la competencia lingüística bilingüe inglés-español, PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: R. Fernández Fuertes (University of Valladolid, Spain)  UVALAL

Replication materials for "The Relationship between Social Media Use and Beliefs in Conspiracy Theories and Misinformation", published in Political Behavior.

Acne vulgaris is a follicular disorder occurring in pilosebaceous units in the skin of the face, neck, and upper trunk. These sebaceous follicles have follicular channels and adjacent multiacinar sebaceous glands. In the lubrication process of normal skin, sebum travels through the follicular canal to the skin surface, carrying along with it desquamated cells from follicular epithelium. Acne develops when these specialized follicles undergo pathologic alterations that result in the formation of non-inflammatory lesions (comedones) and inflammatory lesions (papules, pustules, and nodules). The basic cause of acne remains unknown, but its manifestations are thought to be the product of four pathogenic events: 1) increased sebum production fueled by androgenic stimulation in the pubertal period; 2) obstruction of the pilosebaceous unit due to an abnormal keratinization process; 3) proliferation of Propionibacterium acnes, an anaerobic diptheroid normally residing in pilosebaceous follicles; and 4) inflammation that is mediated both by the action of chemotactic factors and various enzymes, and initiated in part by the interaction of P. acnes with toll-like receptors. Impaction of the pilosebaceous follicle gives rise to the microcomedo that is thought to be the precursor lesion of acne. Topical benzoyl peroxide is a common and well-established agent with known antibacterial and antimicrobial properties used in the treatment of acne vulgaris. The safety profile for topical benzoyl peroxide has been well delineated. The most common side effects attributed to benzoyl peroxide products include irritation, dryness, scaling, burning and stinging. Benzoyl peroxide 10.0% creams (Formulation #1 and Formulation #2) will be evaluated to detect any differences in their response for safety and efficacy. This study is a split face, paired-comparison, pilot study of 10 subjects. Participants in this study will be patients seen at Children's Memorial Hospital, who are clinically diagnosed with mild to moderate acne vulgaris. Participants will be recruited from the clinic, as well as advertising and from previous Institutional Review Board (IRB) approved acne studies housed in the Department of Dermatology. All subjects accrued from previous studies have agreed to be contacted for further investigations. Subjects 13 to 35 years of age with mild to moderate acne vulgaris symmetrical in appearance on both sides of the face, and meeting inclusion criteria will be eligible to participate.

Social media are interactive platforms that facilitate the creation or sharing of information, ideas or other forms of expression among people. This exchange is not free from offensive, trolling or malicious contents targeting users or communities. One way of trolling is by making memes, which in most cases combines an image with a concept or catchphrase. The challenge of dealing with memes is that they are region-specific and their meaning is often obscured in humour or sarcasm. To facilitate the computational modelling of trolling in the memes for Indian languages, we created a meme dataset for Tamil (TamilMemes). We annotated and released the dataset containing suspected trolls and not-troll memes. In this paper, we use the a image classification to address the difficulties involved in the classification of troll memes with the existing methods. We found that the identification of a troll meme with such an image classifier is not feasible which has been corroborated with precision, recall and F1-score. The internet has facilitated its user-base with a platform to communicate and express their views without any censorship. On the other hand, this freedom of expression or free speech can be abused by its user or a troll to demean an individual or a group. Demeaning people based on their gender, sexual orientation, religious believes or any other characteristics –trolling– could cause great distress in the online community. Hence, the content posted by a troll needs to be identified and dealt with before causing any more damage. Amongst all the forms of troll content, memes are most prevalent due to their popularity and ability to propagate across cultures. A troll uses a meme to demean, attack or offend its targetted audience. In this shared task, we provide a resource (TamilMemes) that could be used to train a system capable of identifying a troll meme in the Tamil language. In our TamilMemes dataset, each meme has been categorized into either a “troll” or a “not_troll” class. Along with the meme images, we also provided the Latin transcripted text from memes. We received 10 system submissions from the participants which were evaluated using the weighted average F1-score. The system with the weighted average F1-score of 0.55 secured the first rank. @inproceedings{suryawanshi-etal-2020-tamil-meme, title = "A Dataset for Troll Classification of {Tamil} Memes", author = "Suryawanshi, Shardul and Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja and Verma, Pranav and Arcan, Mihael and McCrae, John P and Buitelaar, Paul", booktitle = "Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Indian Language Data Resource and Evaluation (WILDRE-5)", month = May, year = "2020", address = "Marseille, France", publisher = "European Language Resources Association (ELRA)" } @inproceedings{suryawanshi-chakravarthi-2021-findings, title = "Findings of the Shared Task on Troll Meme Classification in {T}amil", author = "Suryawanshi, Shardul and Chakravarthi, Bharathi Raja", booktitle = "Proceedings of the First Workshop on Speech and Language Technologies for Dravidian Languages", month = apr, year = "2021", address = "Kyiv", publisher = "Association for Computational Linguistics", url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2021.dravidianlangtech-1.16", pages = "126--132", abstract = "The internet has facilitated its user-base with a platform to communicate and express their views without any censorship. On the other hand, this freedom of expression or free speech can be abused by its user or a troll to demean an individual or a group. Demeaning people based on their gender, sexual orientation, religious believes or any other characteristics {--}trolling{--} could cause great distress in the online community. Hence, the content posted by a troll needs to be identified and dealt with before causing any more damage. Amongst all the forms of troll content, memes are most prevalent due to their popularity and ability to propagate across cultures. A troll uses a meme to demean, attack or offend its targetted audience. In this shared task, we provide a resource (TamilMemes) that could be used to train a system capable of identifying a troll meme in the Tamil language. In our TamilMemes dataset, each meme has been categorized into either a {``}troll{''} or a {``}not{\_}troll{''} class. Along with the meme images, we also provided the Latin transcripted text from memes. We received 10 system submissions from the participants which were evaluated using the weighted average F1-score. The system with the weighted average F1-score of 0.55 secured the first rank.", }

Einstellungen zu Parität und zum Mauerfall. Themen: 1. Parität: Befürwortung der Übernahme verantwortungsvoller Positionen in Politik, staatlichen Institutionen und Wirtschaft durch Frauen; Bereiche, in denen Frauen mehr verantwortungsvolle Positionen übernehmen sollten (in Parteien, Regierungen, großen Wirtschaftsunternehmen, öffentlichen Verwaltungen, kleineren und mittleren Wirtschaftsunternehmen, Gerichten, Universitäten und in der Bundeswehr, nichts davon, woanders); Änderung der Politik, wenn mehr Frauen in der Politik vertreten wären; Befürwortung staatlicher Maßnahmen zur Erhöhung der Frauenquote im Bundestag; Meinung zu verschiedenen Aussagen zur Rolle von Geschlecht und Herkunft bei der Auswahl für Positionen (es spielt keine Rolle, ob ein Mann oder eine Frau Verantwortung übernimmt, bei der Auswahl für Positionen sollte das Geschlecht eine Rolle spielen, bei der Auswahl für Positionen sollte die Herkunft eine Rolle spielen, bei der Auswahl für Positionen sollten Frauen bevorzugt werden, wer Frauen bei der Auswahl für Positionen bevorzugt, muss auch andere Gruppen bevorzugen). 2. Mauerfall: Zurücksehnen nach der DDR; Zustimmung zu verschiedenen Aussagen zur DDR und zum Verhältnis zwischen West- und Ostdeutschen (in der DDR war vieles besser, Westdeutsche behandeln Ostdeutsche von oben herab, Westdeutsche verstehen nicht, was Ostdeutsche zu DDR-Zeiten geleistet haben, Westdeutsche verstehen nicht, was Ostdeutsche zu DDR-Zeiten durchgemacht haben); Beurteilung der deutschen Einheit eher positiv oder eher negativ; Zustimmung zu verschiedenen Aussagen zur friedlichen Revolution in der DDR und der Wiedervereinigung (Die friedliche Revolution war ein Glücksfall in der deutschen Geschichte, der Fall der Mauer war für mich ein sehr bewegender Moment, alles in allem ist die Wiedervereinigung erfolgreich verlaufen, die Menschen in Ost- und Westdeutschland sind sich nach der Wiedervereinigung nähergekommen, die Angleichung der Lebensverhältnisse in Ost- und Westdeutschland ist in den letzten Jahren vorangekommen, den Ostdeutschen geht es nach der Wiedervereinigung auch materiell besser). Demographie: Geschlecht; Alter; Schulbildung; Berufstätigkeit; Haushaltsgröße; Anzahl Personen älter als 14 Jahre im Haushalt; Haushaltsnettoeinkommen; Parteipräferenz. Zusätzlich verkodet wurde: Interviewnummer; Gewicht; Ortsgröße (BIK); Bundesland; Region (alte Bundesländer, neue Bundesländer). Attitudes toward parity and the fall of the Berlin Wall. Topics: 1. Parity: Advocacy of women taking responsible positions in politics, government institutions, and business; areas where women should take more responsible positions (in political parties, governments, large business enterprises, public administrations, small and medium-sized business enterprises, courts, universities, and the Federal Armed Forces, none of the above, elsewhere); change in policy if more women were represented in politics; Advocacy of government measures to increase the quota of women in the Bundestag; opinion on various statements about the role of sex and origin in selection for positions (it does not matter whether a man or a woman takes responsibility, sex should play a role in selection for positions, origin should play a role in selection for positions, women should be preferred in selection for positions, those who prefer women in selection for positions must also prefer other groups). 2. Fall of the Wall: Longing back for the GDR; agreement with various statements about the GDR and the relationship between West and East Germans (many things were better in the GDR, West Germans treat East Germans from above, West Germans do not understand what East Germans accomplished in GDR times, West Germans do not understand what East Germans went through in GDR times); assessment of German unity rather positive or rather negative; Agreement with various statements on the peaceful revolution in the GDR and reunification (the peaceful revolution was a stroke of luck in German history, the fall of the Wall was a very moving moment for me, all in all reunification was successful, people in East and West Germany have come closer together after reunification, the alignment of living conditions in East and West Germany has progressed in recent years, East Germans are also materially better off after reunification). Demography: sex; age; school education; occupation; household size; number of persons older than 14 in household; net household income; party preference. Additionally coded were: Interview number; weight; city size (BIK); federal state; region (old federal states, new federal states).

Much of the quantitative literature on civil wars and ethnic conflict ignores the role of the state or treats it as a mere arena for political competition among ethnic groups. Other studies analyze how the state grants or withholds minority rights and faces ethnic protest and rebellion accordingly, while largely overlooking the ethnic power configurations at the state’s center. Drawing on a new dataset on Ethnic Power Relations (EPR) that identifies all politically relevant ethnic groups and their access to central state power around the world from 1946 through 2005, we analyze outbreaks of armed conflict as the result of competing ethno-nationalist claims to state power. Our findings indicate that representatives of ethnic groups are more likely to initiate conflict with the government (1) the more excluded from state power they are, especially if they have recently lost power, (2) the higher their mobilizational capacity, and (3) the more they have experienced conflict in the past.

A dataset containing 8707001 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query: { "and" : [ "Country is Brazil", "TaxonKey is Animalia" ] } The dataset includes 8707001 records from 2454 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0044680-200613084148143/datasets/export for details. Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.

A dataset listing the 14850 species recorded in GBIF matching the query: { "and" : [ "Country is Hong Kong", "OccurrenceStatus is Present" ] } The dataset's 14850 records were derived from 341 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0380180-210914110416597/datasets/export for details. Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.

A dataset containing 29929 species occurrences available in GBIF matching the query: { "and" : [ "HasCoordinate is true", "HasGeospatialIssue is false", "OccurrenceStatus is Present", "TaxonKey is Pinus contorta Douglas ex Loudon" ] } The dataset includes 29929 records from 257 constituent datasets; see https://api.gbif.org/v1/occurrence/download/0011604-231120084113126/datasets/export for details. Data from some individual datasets included in this download may be licensed under less restrictive terms.