cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Developing Collaborative Maternal and Child Health Leaders, an evaluation of the National Maternal and Child Health Workforce Development Center
Creators: name: Clarke, Alina
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Public health agencies have invested in leadership development programs across the local, state, and federal levels to strengthen infrastructure, programming, and outcomes by training leaders and enhancing their relevant skillset. Collaboration is especially important to solve systemic challenges affecting the public’s health, including maternal and child health (MCH) populations. While there is ample literature on leadership development for MCH professionals, few publications present evaluations of the impacts of collaborative leadership development specific to MCH programs.
 To assess the development and use of collaborative leadership practices by MCH professionals, an evaluation of the National Maternal and Child Health Workforce Development Center (the Center) was conducted to investigate 1) the effects of the Center’s training on the use of collaborative leadership practices by MCH leaders, and 2) perceived barriers to collaborative leadership for MCH leaders. This case study compared interview responses from a sample of the Center’s participants and findings from a document review of the training curriculum with an existing framework of collaborative leadership themes to identify gaps and opportunities for improvement.
Key findings showed Systems Thinking and Process-based Leadership to be well covered by the Center’s intensive cohort training, while Power Sharing emerged as a key area for improvement. Perceived barriers to sustaining collaborative work included: 1) a tendency for state agencies to have siloed priorities, 2) difficulty achieving a consensus to move a project forward without individual partners disengaging, 3) strained organizational partnerships when the individual representative leaves that partnering organization, and 4) difficulty in sustaining project-based partnerships past the short term.
Preparing pharmacy students to communicate effectively with young people: development and evaluation of an international course
Creators: name: Wayman, Brandi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Objective. Academics from three universities in three different countries collaborated on thedevelopment of a course designed to equip pharmacy students with skills to effectively communicatewith young people. Preliminary evaluation of the course was undertaken to assess its impact onpharmacy student self-efficacy (confidence) and knowledge relating to the importance of youthcounseling and counseling techniques.Methods. The course structure was informed by communication best practices and establishedtechniques, and it consisted of two online modules and an in-person tutorial. Pharmacy studentsundertaking a four-year Bachelor, Master or Doctor of Pharmacy from all three participating universitiesevaluated the course via pre- and post-questionnaires (hard-copy or online).Results. A total of 31 pharmacy students completed paired pre- and post-questionnaires. Students weremostly female (67.7%) with an average age of 24.9 years (SD=5.6), and were in the first (32.3%), second(16.1%) or third (51.6%) year of their pharmacy program. Over 80% of students somewhat or stronglyagreed that the course made them feel more comfortable speaking with young people in pharmacysettings. Mean (SD) self-efficacy (pre=21.7 (4.0) and post=24.9 (4.5)) and knowledge scores (pre=5.2(1.5) and post=6.6 (1.6)) significantly improved after undertaking the course.Conclusion. The course increased pharmacy student self-efficacy (confidence) and knowledge relating tothe importance of youth counseling and counseling techniques. Future research should evaluate thecourse in a larger number of universities worldwide to assess applicability in other countries anddetermine its optimal placement within pharmacy curricula.
title: Kennzeichnung von bearbeiteten (Influencer-)Fotos: Erforderlichkeit, Wirkung, Regelungsansätze
Creators: name: Dreyer, Stephan
name: Lampert, Claudia
name: Andresen, Sünje
Publisher: name: Verlag Hans-Bredow-Institut
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: 1080404 Interactive, electronic Media
subject: 1080407 Impact Research, Recipient Research
subject: Internet
subject: social media
subject: photography
subject: video
subject: digital media
subject: body image
subject: regulation
subject: manipulation
subject: adolescent
subject: Israel
subject: France
subject: Norway
subject: statuary regulation

description: Müssen, sollen, dürfen digital bearbeitete Fotos in sozialen Medien gekennzeichnet werden? Im Auftrag der Kommission für Jugendmedienschutz (KJM) untersuchte das HBI die Notwendigkeit einer gesetzlichen Kennzeichnungspflicht für bearbeitete Fotos und Videos. Vor dem Hintergrund potenzieller negativer Auswirkungen manipulierter Bilder auf das Körperbild, insbesondere von Jugendlichen, analysierte ein interdisziplinäres Team am HBI den aktuellen Stand der Wirkungsforschung, die Erfahrungen mit bestehenden Regelungen in anderen Ländern (Israel, Frankreich und Norwegen) und identifizierte die Voraussetzungen für wirksame Kennzeichnungen. Das Gutachten soll politischen Entscheidungsträgern eine fundierte Grundlage für mögliche regulatorische Maßnahmen im Bereich digitaler Bildmanipulation bieten. Das Gutachten wurde Ende September 2024 abgegeben.
description: Arbeitspapiere des Hans-Bredow-Instituts, 75, 75 S.
Observational Properties of Type Ib/c Supernova Progenitors in Binary Systems
Creators: name: Kim, Hyun-Jeong
name: Yoon, Sung-Chul
name: Koo, Bon-Chul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In several recent observational studies on Type Ib/c supernovae (SNe Ib/c), the inferred ejecta masses have a peak value of 2.0 -- 4.0 $M_\odot$, in favor of the binary scenario for their progenitors rather than the Wolf-Rayet star scenario. To investigate the observational properties of relatively low-mass helium stars in binary systems as SN Ib/c progenitors, we constructed atmospheric models with the non-LTE radiative transfer code CMFGEN, using binary star evolution models. We find that these helium stars can be characterized by relatively narrow helium emission lines if the mass-loss rate during the final evolutionary phase is significantly enhanced as implied by many SN Ib/c observations. The optical brightness of helium star progenitors can be meaningfully enhanced with a strong wind for $M \gtrsim 4.4 M_\odot$, but hardly affected or slightly weakened for relatively low-mass of $\sim 3.0 M_\odot$, compared to the simple estimate using blackbody approximation. We further confirm the previous suggestion that the optical brightness would be generally higher for a less massive SN Ib/c progenitor. In good agreement with previous studies, our results indicate that the optical magnitudes and colors of the recently detected progenitor of the SN Ib iPTF13bvn can be well explained by a binary progenitor with a final helium star mass of about 3.0 -- 4.4 $M_\odot$.
description: 14 pages, 7 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ
Neuroimmune Function in Different Models of Stress and Withdrawal
Creators: name: Kendle, Andrew Parker
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The neuroimmune system has become a major area of research into the pathology of alcoholism and stress. However, variation in neuro-cytokine responses to stress and withdrawal has impeded progress in defining the precise role the neuroimmune system plays. By measuring cytokine mRNA and protein levels along with obtaining behavioral data, the presented research further examines the function of the neuroimmune system with respect to ethanol exposure. Results broaden the body of literature in which the neuroimmune system has been shown to be altered by stress and withdrawal, importantly in adolescent animals. The increasing variety of methods and rat strains shown to have neuroimmune activation elicited by ethanol may point to a phenomenon that is more translationally applicable and clinically relevant.
CMB Anomalies after Planck
Creators: name: Schwarz, Dominik J.
name: Copi, Craig J.
name: Huterer, Dragan
name: Starkman, Glenn D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Several unexpected features have been observed in the microwave sky at large angular scales, both by WMAP an by Planck. Among those features is a lack of both variance and correlation on the largest angular scales, alignment of the lowest multipole moments with one another and with the motion and geometry of the Solar System, a hemispherical power asymmetry or dipolar power modulation, a preference for odd parity modes and an unexpectedly large cold spot in the Southern hemisphere. The individual p-values of the significance of these features are in the per mille to per cent level, when compared to the expectations of the best-fit inflationary $Λ$CDM model. Some pairs of those features are demonstrably uncorrelated, increasing their combined statistical significance and indicating a significant detection of CMB features at angular scales larger than a few degrees on top of the standard model. Despite numerous detailed investigations, we still lack a clear understanding of these large-scale features, which seem to imply a violation of statistical isotropy and scale invariance of inflationary perturbations. In this contribution we present a critical analysis of our current understanding and discuss several ideas of how to make further progress.
description: 35 pages, 9 figures, draft for a contribution to Planck focus issue in Classical and Quantum Gravity
Exploring the Barriers and Facilitators to Vaccination among the Immunocompromised Population- A Scoping Review Protocol
Creators: name: Ejiegbu, Anne
name: Brondani, Mario
Publisher: name: OSF Registries
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: The objective of this review is to explore the barriers and facilitators of vaccination among the immunocompromised population. This review will utilize the Joanna Briggs Institute scoping review methodology template as a guide and will search several databases, including MEDLINE, CINAHL, EMBASE, Web of Science, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and PROSPERO, along with grey literature including unpublished literature, theses, and dissertations. Two reviewers will independently screen eligible studies to include in the review. A data extraction form developed for the review will be used for collecting bibliographic information for data analysis.
Network analysis of named entity co-occurrences in written texts
Creators: name: Amancio, Diego R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The use of methods borrowed from statistics and physics to analyze written texts has allowed the discovery of unprecedent patterns of human behavior and cognition by establishing links between models features and language structure. While current models have been useful to unveil patterns via analysis of syntactical and semantical networks, only a few works have probed the relevance of investigating the structure arising from the relationship between relevant entities such as characters, locations and organizations. In this study, we represent entities appearing in the same context as a co-occurrence network, where links are established according to a null model based on random, shuffled texts. Computational simulations performed in novels revealed that the proposed model displays interesting topological features, such as the small world feature, characterized by high values of clustering coefficient. The effectiveness of our model was verified in a practical pattern recognition task in real networks. When compared with traditional word adjacency networks, our model displayed optimized results in identifying unknown references in texts. Because the proposed representation plays a complementary role in characterizing unstructured documents via topological analysis of named entities, we believe that it could be useful to improve the characterization of written texts (and related systems), specially if combined with traditional approaches based on statistical and deeper paradigms.
The Mixed Multitude: Jews of Color in the American Jewish Community
Creators: name: Watkins, Kendra
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Of the approximately 6.8 million Jews in the United States Jews of color (Dashefsky and Sheskin 2015), Sephardi, and Mizrahi Jews make up between 6% and 20% of that population (“A Portrait of Jewish Americans” 2013, Tobin et al. 2005). While Jews of color make up a substantial part of the American Jewish community, with as many as one in five American Jews being people of color, the face of Judaism in America is largely white and Ashkenazi. These images and ideas surrounding American Jewry affect not only how the general public relates to Jews, but how American Jews envision their own communities. I suggest that the experiences of Jews of color in institutional Jewish spaces, such as synagogues, Jewish Community Centers, and political organizations centered around Jewish identity, are markedly different than their white Jewish counterparts. This study seeks to move beyond the assertion that Jews of color exist in the American Jewish community and to explore the unique experiences of Jews of color within those spaces. Research suggests that despite having shared religious identity and beliefs, people of color experience racism and discrimination within predominantly white religious institutions (Bracey and Moore 2017). Jews of color routinely encounter assumptions around who is Jewish and how Jews live their lives, the purpose of this research is to better understand how Jews of color internalize and respond to these assumptions.
Examination of Prison Reforms in India Considering the Social Problems and Recommendations of Committees
Creators: name: Prof. Dr Souvik Chatterji, Tama Chakraborty
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: The advent of Human Rights activism and the growing need for an integrated criminal justice system hasadded fuel to the issue of prisons reforms in which the apex court has issued several directions. In ReInhuman Conditions in 1382 Prisons. In the Past, there have been so many attempts to improve thecondition of the Prisons in India but unfortunately nothing appears to change the ground. The paper hasa two-pronged approach; firstly, the paper will critically examine the present case in the light ofreformative schemes and issues prevailing in India’s prison management system and also progress toconduct a reality check with respect to the implementations of these directions and other recent stepsundertaken in this directive. Finally, the paper concludes with the suggestions and conclusion from theanalysis made in this article along with the recommendations of various governmental and nongovernmental organizations.
title: Krisen in Migrationsbiographien: Zwischen sozialem Abstieg und transnationaler familialer Einbettung
Creators: name: Schramm, Christian
Publisher: name: SSOAR -   GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 10209 Family Sociology, Sociology of Sexual Behavior
subject: migration
subject: resilience
subject: crisis
subject: transnationalization
subject: biographical method
subject: social decline
subject: family cycle

description: Der Beitrag untersucht am Beispiel der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise ab 2008, wie abrupte gesellschaftliche Umbrüche in Biographien von Migrant/-innen und ihren Familienmitgliedern verarbeitet werden. Mittels einer Kombination aus Biographietheorie, Familien- und Figurationssoziologie und Annahmen der Transnationalisierungsforschung werden anhand einer Einzelfallanalyse drei Fragen beantwortet: (1) Welche Orientierungsfunktionen erfüllt die Biographie unter Bedingungen des abrupten Wandels gesellschaftlicher Rahmenbedingungen? (2) Wie verändern sich dabei gegenseitige familiale Abhängigkeitsbeziehungen in transnationalen Familienfigurationen? (3) Was tragen diese Erkenntnisse zur Debatte um die Förderung von Resilienz von Migrant/-innen und ihren Familienmitgliedern bei? Ein zentrales Ergebnis ist, dass sich die individualbiographische Bedeutung von Krisen nur über die langfristige Dynamik der Wechselwirkungsbeziehungen zwischen den Familienmitgliedern (m.a.W. über den Figurationsprozess) erschließt. Chancen und Risiken des Resilienzpotentials von sich re- und de-transnationalisierenden Familienbeziehungen für Migrant/-innen und ihre Familienmitglieder müssen vor diesem Hintergrund beurteilt werden.
description: Gesellschaft unter Spannung: Verhandlungen des 40. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2020
Stratified shear flow instabilities in the non-Boussinesq regime
Creators: name: Heifetz, Eyal
name: Mak, Julian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Effects of the baroclinic torque on wave propagation normally neglected under the Boussinesq approximation is investigated here, with a special focus on the associated consequences for the mechanistic interpretation of shear instability arising from the interaction between a pair of vorticity-propagating waves. To illustrate and elucidate the physical effects that modify wave propagation, we consider three examples of increasing complexity: wave propagation supported by a uniform background flow; wave propagation supported on a piecewise-linear basic state possessing one jump; and an instability problem of a piecewise-linear basic state possessing two jumps, which supports the possibility of shear instability. We find that the non-Boussinesq effects introduces a preference for the direction of wave propagation that depends on the sign of the shear in the region where waves are supported. This in turn affects phase-locking of waves that is crucial for the mechanistic interpretation for shear instability, and is seen here to have an inherent tendency for stabilisation.
description: 15 pages, 8 figures, under review with Physics of Fluids; comments welcome
title: Negativer Humanismus - ein Versuch
Creators: name: Tänzler, Dirk
Publisher: name: SSOAR -   GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 10201 General Sociology, Basic Research, General Concepts and History of Sociology, Sociological Theories
subject: anthropology
subject: humanism
subject: sociology of knowledge

description: Die von Peter L. Berger und Thomas Luckmann begründete Neue Wissenssoziologie versteht sich als humanistische Soziologie. Scheinbar paradox gerieren sich Berger und Luckmann aber auch als Anti-Soziologen, als deren Vaterfigur wiederum Max Weber anzusehen ist. Für die Soziologie als Realwissenschaft lässt Weber nur Formen der Vergesellschaftung und Vergemeinschaftung gelten - Formen wertebezogenen Handelns von Menschen, motiviert durch subjektiv gemeinten Sinn. Eine humanistische, auf das als typisch menschlich betrachtete, Sinn und Sein vermittelnde, Handeln gegründete Soziologie opponiert der Ansicht von der Gesellschaft als Sein sui generis und ist insofern eine Anti-Soziologie. Als Gegenpart zur handlungstheoretisch fundierten humanistischen Soziologie figuriert die soziologische Systemtheorie von Herbert Spencer, Émile Durkheim, Talcott Parsons und Niklas Luhmann, und ebenso der Strukturalismus eines Claude Lévi-Strauss. Sie alle setzen nicht den Menschen, sondern die Gesellschaft als ens realissimum und werden daher immer wieder des Antihumanismus bezichtigt. Der negative Humanismus korreliert aber nicht nur mit einem Soziologismus, sondern betreibt auch eine Dezentrierung des Menschen. Gemeinsam ist beiden Positionen eine relationistische Definition des menschlichen Wesens, wie sie systematisch Helmuth Plessners Anthropologie der Exzentrizität entwickelt hat. Ausgehend von Plessners Begriff der Exzentrizität soll daher im Folgenden der Versuch unternommen werden, den normativen und politisch aufgeladenen Gegensatz von Humanismus und Antihumanismus durch die Unterscheidung eines positiven und negativen Humanismus zu ersetzten.
description: Gesellschaft unter Spannung: Verhandlungen des 40. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2020
Invariant metrizability and projective metrizability on Lie groups and homogeneous spaces
Creators: name: Bucataru, Ioan
name: Milkovszki, Tamás
name: Muzsnay, Zoltán
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53B05, 53B40, 70H03, 70H30, 53B05, 53B40, 70H03, 70H30, 70F17

description: In this paper we study the invariant metrizability and projective metrizability problems for the special case of the geodesic spray associated to the canonical connection of a Lie group. We prove that such canonical spray is projectively Finsler metrizable if and only if it is Riemann metrizable. This result means that this structure is rigid in the sense that considering left-invariant metrics, the potentially much larger class of projective Finsler metrizable canonical sprays, corresponding to Lie groups, coincides with the class of Riemann metrizable canonical sprays. Generalisation of these results for geodesic orbit spaces are given.
description: final version, accepted by MJOM
title: Die Genese des Nichtwissens aus dem Wissen: Fünf Thesen zur digitalen Wissenswelt
Creators: name: Prisching, Manfred
Publisher: name: SSOAR -   GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 10219 Sociology of Knowledge
subject: digitalization
subject: knowledge
subject: algorithm

description: Die Vorteile der Wissensverfügbarkeit in der digitalen Welt sind nicht zu leugnen. Aber im Zuge der digitalen Wissensexpansion entstehen "blinde Flecken" des Nichtwissens. Die Relevanzverlustthese beschreibt Wissensverlust durch Entstrukturierung und Relevanzeinebnung der Informations- und Lebensverhältnisse. Alle Informationen werden wichtig. Die Algorithmenthese zielt auf den Wissensverlust durch die zunehmende Undurchschaubarkeit der Wissensgrundlagen, Wissensselektionen, Wissensbeschaffungsmuster, Wissensdarbietungsmodi. Die Explizierungsthese fasst den Wissensverlust durch Reduzierung oder Eliminierung von unscharfem Wissen und "tacit knowledge" ins Auge. Umfassende Explizitmachung produziert unbewältigbare Komplexität. Die Unverstehbarkeitsthese befasst sich mit dem Aufstieg von datenanalysierten "Mustern", die nützlich sind, deren soziologisches Substrat aber nicht mehr erkennbar ist. Die Panoptikumsthese schließlich vermutet einen Wissensverlust durch Inauthentizierung des rückkoppelungsgesteuerten Verhaltens der Individuen und die dadurch erschwerte Verhaltensdechiffrierung. Permanentes Tracking und Selftracking führt zum "künstlichen" Verhalten.
description: Gesellschaft unter Spannung: Verhandlungen des 40. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2020
Lemaitre model and cosmic mass
Creators: name: Faraoni, Valerio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The mass of a sphere of simmetry in the Lemaitre universe is discussed using the Hawking-Hayward quasi-local energy and clarifying existing ambiguities. A covariantly conserved current introduced by Cahill and McVittie is shown to be a multiple of the Kodama energy current.
description: 10 pages, no figures, to appear in Gen. Rel. Gravit
Behavior Change Techniques to Create Safe Dates for Teens: Applying the BCTTv1 to the Safe Dates Curriculum
Creators: name: Cannoy, Carly Bess
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Background: Teen dating violence (TDV) is a prevalent, but preventable, public health problem in the United States with severe and long-lasting health effects on victims.* Poor conflict management skills, acceptance of dating abuse norms, and gender stereotyping behaviors have been identified as contributing to TDV perpetration and victimization. The Behavior Change Technique Taxonomy (BCTTv1) can be used to code health behavior interventions and discover which basic elements of interventions bring about behavior change in participants.Program Description: The Safe Dates program consists of nine in-person classroom sessions, a play, and poster contest. The program was developed and evaluated in the 1990s in Johnston County, North Carolina. Participants included eighth and ninth grade students. The Safe Dates curriculum approaches all participants, regardless of gender, as potential perpetrators and victims of TDV. Research Questions: How do mediator variables described in the Safe Dates theoretical model relate to specific activities in the Safe Dates curriculum? How does the Behavior Change Technique (BCT) Taxonomy (BCTTv1) apply to specific activities in the Safe Dates curriculum? Are there patterns in the application of BCTs to mediator variables and mediator variable effectiveness?Methods: This study is a qualitative program evaluation, involving the application of the BCTTv1 to the Safe Dates curriculum and utilizing results from previous evaluations.Findings: BCT use between effective and ineffective mediator variables did not differ on frequency or other quantitative descriptions. However, effective mediator variables were more often targeted in combination and across the curriculum. Additionally, they were more often targeted with BCTs from group five, “natural consequences,” emphasizing the importance of behavior change. Lastly, BCTs 8.1 and 11.4 were used to complement other BCTs related to knowledge with behavior practice of wanted (8.1) and unwanted (11.4) behaviors.Implications: While the findings of this study are unique to the Safe Dates curriculum, they could be considered in the creation of new TDV prevention programs, updates to the Safe Dates curriculum, or included in later larger studies of BCT use in TDV prevention programming. These findings are an early indication that frequency of BCT use may not be important for effectiveness. However, strategic use of BCTs targeting multiple mediator variables across a curriculum and with reinforcement through both knowledge and behavior practice may be more important for program effectiveness.*Note on language: Victimization language is used through this study, instead of survivorship language, to agree with the body of public health literature on this topic.
title: Wie viel Christentum steckt in der Heimatliebe? Potentiale und Grenzen des Christentums für eine kollektive Identität der Neuen Rechte
Creators: name: Diefenbach, Aletta
Publisher: name: SSOAR -   GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: 10218 Sociology of Religion
subject: Christianity
subject: group discussion
subject: collective identity
subject: political right
subject: mobilization
subject: right-wing radicalism

description: Die Rolle des Christentums wird in der gegenwärtigen Politisierung von rechts bisher als diffuser Identitätsmarker für das Eigene, als belonging without believing, beschrieben. Referenzen wie die "christliche Leitkultur" würden zwar für das Identitäre stehen, damit artikuliere sich aber eher ein säkulares und kulturelles, statt ein glaubendes Wir. Diagnosen dieser Art wurden bisher vor allem an öffentlichen Programmatiken oder Diskursen festgemacht. Weniger klar ist, wie solche christlichen Codes auch auf der lebensweltlichen Ebene der politischen Mobilisierung und der neuen Gruppenbildung ihre Relevanz erhalten. Der Beitrag zeigt an drei exemplarischen Fällen auf, wie facettenreich und damit auch umstritten das Christentum für eine kollektive Identität der Neuen Rechten ist: Zwar zeigt sich ein vereinendes Potential in der gemeinsamen Identifikation mit dem Christentum als säkularisierte Kulturleistung. Doch letztlich offenbaren sich in den Positionierungen zum Christentum fundamentale Identitäts- und gesellschaftliche Ordnungsvorstellungen. Damit wird auch die Fragilität des Ethnopluralismus als politische Strategie sichtbar. Denn sobald es gilt, sich mittels kultureller Differenz nicht über das Andere, Fremde, sondern das Eigene und zu Verteidigende zu definieren, tritt die eigene kulturelle Vielfalt hervor, die wiederum Konfliktpotentiale bergen kann. Empirische Grundlage für diese These bilden Gruppendiskussionen mit verschiedenen lokal agierenden Gruppen der sogenannten Neuen Rechten (AfD, PEGIDA, Identitäre Bewegung).
description: Gesellschaft unter Spannung: Verhandlungen des 40. Kongresses der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Soziologie 2020
The Maximum of a Fractional Brownian Motion: Analytic Results from Perturbation Theory
Creators: name: Delorme, Mathieu
name: Wiese, Kay Joerg
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Fractional Brownian motion is a non-Markovian Gaussian process $X_t$, indexed by the Hurst exponent $H$. It generalises standard Brownian motion (corresponding to $H=1/2$). We study the probability distribution of the maximum $m$ of the process and the time $t_{\rm max}$ at which the maximum is reached. They are encoded in a path integral, which we evaluate perturbatively around a Brownian, setting $H=1/2 + \varepsilon$. This allows us to derive analytic results beyond the scaling exponents. Extensive numerical simulations for different values of $H$ test these analytical predictions and show excellent agreement, even for large $\varepsilon$.
description: 5 pages, 7 figures
Nursing assessment of patients requiring enteral and gastric feeding tubes: An exploratory approach
Creators: name: Leckey, Jill
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Gastric and enteral feeding tubes have been used for people with an intact
gastrointestinal tract to enhance nutritional intake and to prevent or treat malnutrition when the
expected time of use is greater than four weeks (Verhoef & Van Rosendaal, 2014; White &
King, 2014). Considered to be a safe intervention, the placing of percutaneous endoscopic
gastrostomy tube (PEG), a common type of feeding tube, has a successful placement rate of
nearly 95% (Verhoef & Van Rosendaal, 2014). The majority of deaths of those with feeding
tubes are attributable to the patient’s underlying medical co-morbidities and not the tube or tube
placement itself (Rahnemai-Azar, Rahnemaiazar, Naghshizadian, Kurtz, & Farkas (2014). A
variety of gastric and enteral feeding tubes exist, and the choice of which type of tube to use is
usually determined by the health care needs of the patient (White & King, 2014). Currently,
little information exists in the literature regarding how nurses assess, intervene, and advocate for
patients as they experience physical and psychosocial challenges which are specific to these
invasive medical devices. To understand the ways in which nurses could be more helpful to and
supportive of this patient population, a survey was designed to elicit preliminary data from
patients who were currently, or had recently been treated, with a feeding tube. This survey,
distributed through online social media groups, was used to gather data on the feelings and
challenges that these patients experience. A total of 66 patients completed the survey. This
survey specifically examines nurse behaviors that patients identify as actually or potentially
helpful in dealing with the physical, emotional, social, and logistical aspects of living life with a
feeding tube in place. The survey aims to help determine how nurses can intervene and provide
more holistic and appropriate care for this patient population. The results of the survey revealed
that while some patients reported having been cared for by nurses who were well-educated in
regards to feeding tubes and believed that their nurses were caring and compassionate, a greater
number of respondents expressed that their nurses were less informed regarding feeding tubes
and less able to provide help with the emotional challenges that these patients present. With
these results, further investigation is needed to assess how nurses can better support patients with
feeding tubes and better identify the successful and transformative interventions that would be
helpful to this patient population.
Algebraic lattices in QFT renormalization
Creators: name: Borinsky, Michael
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81T18, 81T15, 81T16, 06B99

description: The structure of overlapping subdivergences, which appear in the perturbative expansions of quantum field theory, is analyzed using algebraic lattice theory. It is shown that for specific QFTs the sets of subdivergences of Feynman diagrams form algebraic lattices. This class of QFTs includes the Standard model. In kinematic renormalization schemes, in which tadpole diagrams vanish, these lattices are semimodular. This implies that the Hopf algebra of Feynman diagrams is graded by the coradical degree or equivalently that every maximal forest has the same length in the scope of BPHZ renormalization. As an application of this framework a formula for the counter terms in zero-dimensional QFT is given together with some examples of the enumeration of primitive or skeleton diagrams.
description: 28 pages; v2: minor corrections and clarifications, additional references added
Downlink Power Control in Two-Tier Cellular Networks with Energy-Harvesting Small Cells as Stochastic Games
Creators: name: Thuc, Tran Kien
name: Hossain, Ekram
name: Tabassum, Hina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Energy harvesting in cellular networks is an emerging technique to enhance the sustainability of power-constrained wireless devices. This paper considers the co-channel deployment of a macrocell overlaid with small cells. The small cell base stations (SBSs) harvest energy from environmental sources whereas the macrocell base station (MBS) uses conventional power supply. Given a stochastic energy arrival process for the SBSs, we derive a power control policy for the downlink transmission of both MBS and SBSs such that they can achieve their objectives (e.g., maintain the signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio (SINR) at an acceptable level) on a given transmission channel. We consider a centralized energy harvesting mechanism for SBSs, i.e., there is a central energy storage (CES) where energy is harvested and then distributed to the SBSs. When the number of SBSs is small, the game between the CES and the MBS is modeled as a single-controller stochastic game and the equilibrium policies are obtained as a solution of a quadratic programming problem. However, when the number of SBSs tends to infinity (i.e., a highly dense network), the centralized scheme becomes infeasible, and therefore, we use a mean field stochastic game to obtain a distributed power control policy for each SBS. By solving a system of partial differential equations, we derive the power control policy of SBSs given the knowledge of mean field distribution and the available harvested energy levels in the batteries of the SBSs.
description: IEEE Transactions on Communications, 2015
The Effects of Maternal Self-Construal, Attachment Style and Sensitivity on Mother - Child Communication
Creators: name: Ilgun, Yagmur
name: Sahin-Acar, Basak
name: Alkis, Aysu
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: attachment style
subject: maternal sensitivity
subject: mother-child interaction
subject: narrative ability
subject: self-construal

description: The proposed study aims to investigate the effects of maternal self-construal, attachment style and sensitivity on mother-child conversations and children’s independent narrative abilities.
Barriers to Care and Provider Involvement in Weight Management for Youth with Type 1 Diabetes
Creators: name: Watts, Madison
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Overweight and obesity are common in youth with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), but no
current clinical guidelines focus on weight management in this population. The present
study aimed to characterize the patient-perceived experience of and barriers to weight
management and to understand the role of the provider in supporting weight management
in T1D youth. Participants were youth ages 12-17 with T1D for greater than 1 year and
HbA1c < 13% recruited from the University of North Carolina (n=16, 56% female, 60%
white, 50% pump users, mean age 14.8, mean HbA1c 8.5%) and the University of
Colorado (n=18, 50% female, 80% white, 53% pump users, mean age 15.3, mean
HbA1c 9.3%). Data were collected through an online questionnaire contained in a secure
interface and through focus groups held at the two study sites. The questionnaire used
items from the Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems Survey
(CAHPS 3.0) to examine the barriers of contextual care, communication and getting
information with regards to weight management care. Perceptions of weight management
in the context of T1D and the role of provider in weight management care were gathered
from focus groups. Focus groups were stratified by gender and weight status (BMI
cutoff=25) and guided by a consistent set of questions. Discussions were audio-taped,
transcribed, and analyzed using standard inductive qualitative methods. Barriers to
weight management care were common in this population. The highest prevalence of
barriers was associated with female gender (p=0.02) and HbA1c >9% (p=0.02), but not
weight status. Focus group data indicated that youth feel weight management and T1D
care are inherently antagonistic. As a result, youth with T1D report a need to access
members of the care team for weight goals and a desire for personalized and T1D2
specific weight-related recommendations to overcome the inherent antagonism between
T1D and weight management.
A guide through a family of phylogenetic dissimilarity measures among sites
Creators: name: Pavoine, Sandrine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Ecological studies have now gone beyond measures of species turnover towards measures of phylogenetic and functional dissimilarity with a main objective: disentangling the processes that drive species distributions from local to broad scales. A fundamental difference between phylogenetic and functional analyses is that phylogeny is intrinsically dependent on a tree-like structure. When the branches of a phylogenetic tree have lengths, then each evolutionary unit on these branches can be considered as a basic entity on which dissimilarities among sites should be measured. Several of the recent measures of phylogenetic dissimilarities among sites thus are traditional dissimilarity indices where species are replaced by evolutionary units. The resulting indices were named PD-dissimilarity indices. Here I review and compare indices and ordination approaches that, although first developed to analyse the differences in the species compositions of sites, can be adapted to describe PD-dissimilarities among sites, thus revealing how lineages are distributed along environmental gradients, or among habitats or regions. As an illustration, I show that the amount of PD-dissimilarities among the main habitats of a disturbance gradient in Selva Lacandona of Chiapas, Mexico is strongly dependent on whether species are weighted by their abundance or not, and on the index used to measure PD-dissimilarity. Overall, the family of PD-dissimilarity indices has a critical potential for future analyses of phylogenetic diversity as it benefits from decades of research on the measure of species dissimilarity. I provide clues to help to choose among many potential indices, identifying which indices satisfy minimal basis properties, and analysing their sensitivity to abundance, size, diversity, and joint absences.
description: 88 pages, including main text, 5 figures and appendixes
Salinity Tolerance in Cyanobacteria and its Implications for Expansion into Estuaries
Creators: name: Tolar, Stephanie Marie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Salinity tolerance in freshwater cyanobacteria is a pertinent issue for estuaries in an age of changing climate and increasing anthropogenic influence. As global temperatures rise, rainfall patterns shift, and ecosystem nutrient dynamics change, cyanobacteria are expanding their ranges and gaining dominance in phytoplankton communities in aquatic systems worldwide. Estuaries are important aquatic resources that have the potential to be greatly affected by climate change. Since estuaries are the interface of salt and fresh water, they have the ability to host freshwater and marine species at the extent of their ranges. This study examined the salt tolerance of two freshwater species of cyanobacteria to determine their potential for expansion in estuaries. The species studied were an Anabaena oscillarioides isolate and a Microcystis aeruginosa isolate. A. oscillarioides had a subsistence threshold of 10 g/L NaCl concentration, above which die-off occurred for both pulse (salt-shock) and gradual salt additions. M. aeruginosa exhibited a more nuanced response to salinity. With pulse salt additions, M. aeruginosa was unable to maintain positive growth rates above 2 g/L. With gradual salt additions, M. aeruginosa was able to maintain positive growth at 5 g/L, though showed a threshold at 10 g/L with a slight negative growth rate overall. These results demonstrate that Microcystis aeruginosa has the potential to adapt to higher salinities provided that exposure is gradual. With an even more gradual exposure to salt, M. aeruginosa could have the capacity to adapt to higher salinities. The results from these experiments show that freshwater cyanobacteria have the potential to proliferate at moderate salt concentrations found in estuaries, and that cyanobacterial communities have a high adaptive potential to deal with salt stress.
Dividend Decisions and Economic Value-Added of Firms in Kenya
Creators: name: Kasidi, Khamis
name: Riwegho, Saumu Amir
name: Omar, Ahmed Mohammed
name: Kamau, Charles
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Finance
Financial econometrics
Investment and risk management

description: Creating corporate value is one of the organization's primary priorities. As the value of the company increases, shareholders will receive additional benefits. The result of empirically based research is a substantial body of literature on dividend policy. There are two major schools of thought in the research: one argues that a company's dividend policy influences its value, while the other maintains that it has no effect on it. After many years of research, no agreement has been reached, and scholars cannot even agree on the same empirical evidence. Over the years, a variety of theories about the potential influence of dividend choices on a company's total wealth and performance have been developed, with varying degrees of success. Numerous financial ideas and models were put forth, and the business sector later used them. It is still unclear, despite several studies, how dividend decisions impact the share price of the firm and the overall wealth of shareholders. The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between business valuation and dividend policy choices. Several studies indicate a statistically significant positive correlation between the dividend policy and return on equity. As a result, raising dividend payments will help the business succeed. A substantial body of evidence, however, suggests a conflict between firm profitability and dividend payout. As a result, when companies pay dividends, their retained earnings are impacted, which affects their expected internal profitability.
Validating the Educational Impact of Video-Based Learning
Creators: name: Meckola, Kristin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This was a 12-month retrospective, observational, institutional review board-approved cohort study examining the quality of learning that is obtained from UNC Pharmacy Grand Rounds online CE webcast courses.  The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of information acquisition by the professionals who have taken the UNC Pharmacy Grand Rounds courses as compared to that of professionals who attended the ASHP MCM in-person live CE courses.  Lectures were matched 1:1 based on content.
Weighted inference of gene expression variability in single cell RNAseq data for gene set tests: a replication study
Creators: name: He, Jie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: In the gene diﬀerential expression analysis of Single Cell RNA-seq data, the aim is to sort out functional gene sets for speciﬁc diseases or traits of interest. The mean-variance relationship of the log-counts is also evaluated to generate precision weights for empirical Bayes analysis. We demonstrate through a gene set test study that the functional gene sets identiﬁed by the permutation tests on samples of diﬀerent biological conditions are largely diﬀerent. The permutation-based test uses the transformation of coeﬃcient of variation (cv) as a novel variability measure and the empirical Bayes statistical methods borrow strength between genes for exact type I error rate control. We also reduce the mean variance trend incurred by scRNA-deq data’s violation of the normal assumption of intermediate linear modeling steps. We apply the methodology to two samples of single cell transcriptomics from lymphoid organs (spleen) of humanized mice with one Mock mouse and one HIV-1 infected mouse. Our results agree with previous ﬁndings and in the case of the HIV-infected mouse dataset suggest an additional perspective of interest.