Sexual violence at higher education institutions: prevalence, nature, and opportunities for prevention by Steele, B

“…Using the OUR SPACE data, I estimated the past-year prevalence of SV at the University of Oxford disaggregated by type of SV, gender identity, sexual orientation, and ethnicity. …”

Epidemiology and transmission of carbapenemase-producing enterobacteriaceae in a health care network of an acute-care hospital and its affiliated intermediate- and long-term-care f... by Aung, Aung-Hein, Kanagasabai, Kala, Koh, Jocelyn, Hon, Pei-Yun, Ang, Brenda, Lye, David C., Chen, Swaine L., Chow, Angela

“…After adjusting for sociodemographics, screening year, and facility type, the odds of CPE colonization increased significantly with a hospital stay of ≥3 weeks (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 2.67; 95% confidence interval [CI], 1.17 to 6.05), penicillin use (aOR, 3.00; 95% CI, 1.05 to 8.56), proton pump inhibitor use (aOR, 3.20; 95% CI, 1.05 to 9.80), dementia (aOR, 3.42; 95% CI, 1.38 to 8.49), connective tissue disease (aOR, 5.10; 95% CI, 1.19 to 21.81), and prior carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) carriage (aOR, 109.02; 95% CI, 28.47 to 417.44) in the ACH. …”
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16.90 Computational Methods in Aerospace Engineering, Spring 2014 by Willcox, Karen, Wang, Qiqi

“…David Darmofal taught this course in prior years, and created some of the materials found in this OCW site.…”
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Holistic teaching workload allocation for research-intensive universities by Roopchandani, Arpit

“…Moreover, the proposed technique incorporates the management preference for allocating the best-performing faculty members to earlier-year courses for enhanced student satisfaction and learning outcomes. …”
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PostIndependentzia by Calzada, I

“…This core idea of this book is that the Basque Country, due to its own intricacies rather than merely as a consequence of its being kidnapped and held captive by the old-fashioned Spanish and French state legal frameworks, has come, over the years, to develop many points of inertia that are inherent in its territorial policies and strategies. …”

Using cluster analysis to reconstruct dengue exposure patterns from cross-sectional serological studies in Singapore by Sangkaew, Sorawat, Tan, Li Kiang, Ng, Lee Ching, Ferguson, Neil M., Dorigatti, Ilaria

“…Analyses of the relative size and age-stratification of the clusters by year of sample collection and the application of cluster analysis to the 2009 and 2013 datasets considered separately revealed the epidemic circulation of DENV2 and DENV3 between 2009 and 2013. …”
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Development of axially chiral urazole scaffolds for antiplant virus applications against potato virus Y by Jin, Jiamiao, Mou, Chengli, Zou, Juan, Xie, Xin, Wang, Chen, Shen, Tingwei, Deng, Youlin, Li, Benpeng, Jin, Zhichao, Li, Xiangyang, Chi, Robin Yonggui

“…It can cause severe damage to plants from the family Solanaceae, which results in billions of dollars of economic loss worldwide every year. To discover new antiviral drugs, a class of multifunctional urazole derivatives bearing a stereogenic C-N axis were synthesized with excellent optical purities for antiviral evaluations against PVY. …”
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Urban Informatics and Future Cities / by Geertman, S. C. M., editor 642892, Pettit, Christopher, editor 310233, Goodspeed, Robert, editor 642893, Staffans, Aija, editor 642894

HiPIMS deposition of VO2 thermochromic coating for enhanced optical properties by Vu, Tuan Duc

“…A new strategy to fabricate VO2 nanorod nanocomposite thermochromic smart window with record high 33-year service life was discussed in chapter 6. By introducing seeding, one-step HiPIMS process was achieved which comprises of guided growth of VO2 nanorod embedded within amorphous V2O5 matrix. …”
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韓國古代赤壁船遊的跨學科研究 = An interdisciplinary study of ancient Korean boating by the Red Cliff by 蔡佳敏 Cai, Jamie Jiamin

“…Rather than focusing on the historical event that occurred during the thirteenth year (208) of the Jian'an era in the Eastern Han Dynasty, Su Shi used the Red Cliff as a backdrop to express his philosophical reflections through this historical event. …”
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Thomas Kling: influences, contemporaries, successors. A study in poetic tradition / Thomas Kling: Einflüsse, Zeitgenossen, Nachfolger. Studie über poetische Tradition by Rakar, I

“…The third part looks at the younger generation of poets which makes its appearance in the field around the year 2000 and is characterised by a greater sense of hierarchy in relation to Kling. …”

Interventions for smoking cessation in hospitalised patients by Rigotti, NA, Clair, C, Munafo, MR, Stead, LF

“…One trial of intensive intervention including counselling and pharmacotherapy for smokers admitted with CVD assessed clinical and health care utilization endpoints, and found significant reductions in all‐cause mortality and hospital readmission rates over a two‐year follow‐up period. These trials were all conducted in acute care hospitals. …”

Deep transcriptome profiling reveals limited conservation of A-to-I RNA editing in Xenopus by Nguyen, Tram Anh, Heng, Joel Jia Wei, Ng, Yan Ting, Sun, Rui, Fisher, Shira, Oguz, Gokce, Kaewsapsak, Pornchai, Xue, Shifeng, Reversade, Bruno, Ramasamy, Adaikalavan, Eisenberg, Eli, Tan, Meng How

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RES.STR-001 Geographic Information System (GIS) Tutorial, January IAP 2016 by MIT GIS Services Group

“…The MIT GIS Services Group at the MIT Libraries hosts a number of tutorial workshops throughout the year. This resource gathers together some of those introductory workshop materials designed to accustom GIS novices to the various available software packages and introduce them to some of the many features included in GIS systems. …”
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RES.CD-001 Leadership and Empowerment: Resources from Graduate Women at MIT (GWAMIT), Spring 2012 by Members and Guest Speakers, GWAMIT

“…This OCW site features selected videos from the two conferences GWAMIT runs each academic year: a Leadership Conference in the fall and an Empowerment Conference in the spring. …”
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Endoscopic third ventriculostomy (ETV) for idiopathic normal pressure hydrocephalus (iNPH) by Tudor, Katarina Ivana, Tudor, Mario, McCleery, Jenny, Car, Josip

“…The primary outcome in the study was the proportion of patients with improved symptoms one year after surgery, determined as a change of at least two points on the Japanese NPH scale. …”
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Aeration slab study volume 2 by Rahardjo, Harianto, Indrawan, I Gde Budi, Fakhrur, Rozy Harnas

“…The highest cumulative rainfall throughout the year was 109.8 mm/d. Ground water table was about 5.5 m below the ground surface. …”
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Highlights from Faraday Discussion 172: Carbon in electrochemistry, Sheffield, UK, July 2014 by Dyatkin, B, Ash, PA, Sharma, S

“…Traditionally, Faraday Discussions have been very true to their name, focussing genuinely on healthy, in-depth, and fruitful discussions rather than just serving as a platform for one to one researcher interaction and collaboration. …”

Distributed execution of workflow by Khademi Hedayat, Maryam

“…The main reasons which led us to this selection are: (i) there is few existing work on partitioning workflow, specially as a means of accelerating workflow execution; (ii) several systems have been developed using three main enactment models (i.e., centralized, hierarchical, and distributed models), but most of them focus on centralized execution control while the existing hierarchical and distributed models still have problems such as high overhead in communication amongst the distributed parties; and (iii) data movement mechanisms are divided into: centralized, mediated, and peer-to-peer models. …”
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Computational analysis for infectious diseases surveillance and host-pathogen interactions (in the context of Influenza A viruses) by Beyene, Biruhalem Taye

“…Influenza A virus (IAV) is a major public health problem responsible for the death of half a million people every year worldwide. Zoonotic transmissions of the virus from swine and avian origin have occurred and can in the worst-case result in pandemics. …”
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