cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
An introduction to tensors for path signatures
Creators: name: Beda, Jack
name: Dos Reis, Gonçalo
name: Tapia, Nikolas
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 2025
Subjects: subject: Signatures
subject: tensors
subject: linear algebra
subject: tensor factorization
subject: tensor algebra
subject: 60L10
subject: 60L70
subject: 60L99

description: We present a fit-for-purpose introduction to tensors and their operations. It is envisaged to help the reader become acquainted with its underpinning concepts for the study of path signatures. The text includes exercises, solutions and many intuitive explanations. The material discusses direct sums and tensor products as two possible operations that make the Cartesian product of vectors spaces a vector space. The difference lies in linear Vs. multilinear structures ? the latter being the suitable one to deal with path signatures. The presentation is offered to understand tensors in a deeper sense than just a multidimensional array. The text concludes with the prime example of an algebra in relation to path signatures: the tensor algebra. This manuscript is the extended version (with two extra sections) of a chapter to appear in Open Access in a forthcoming Springer volume "Signatures Methods in Finance: An Introduction with Computational Applications". The two additional sections here discuss the factoring of tensor product expressions to a minimal number of terms. This problem is not critical for path signatures theory, but is an elegant way of becoming familiar with the language of tensors and tensor products that are used throughout the forthcoming volume. A GitHub repository is attached.
Racial/Ethnic Differences in Diet Quality and Eating Habits Among WIC Pregnant Women: Implications for Policy and Practice
Creators: name: Hill, A.M.
name: Dharod, J.M.
name: Nunnery, D.L.
name: Ammerman, A.
Publisher: name: SAGE Publications Inc.
Year: 2020

description: Purpose: One of the major federal food assistance programs, the Special Supplemental Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), serves approximately 1.5 million low-income pregnant women per year; however, limited information is available on their dietary habits. This is critical because low-income women are at higher risk of gaining excess weight during pregnancy. Thus, the study objectives were to (1) determine the overall diet quality of WIC pregnant women and (2) examine diet quality and eating behaviors by race/ethnicity and other sociodemographics. Design: This was a cross-sectional study. Setting: One of the 3 WIC offices in a north-central county in North Carolina, USA. Sample: Pregnant women (n = 198) in the second trimester. Measures: Interviews included sociodemographics, food security, diet, and eating behaviors. Diet quality was assessed by the Healthy Eating Index (HEI) 2010 scores. Analysis: Descriptives, bivariate analysis, and multivariate analysis. Results: Average participant age was 26 years, and the mean HEI-2010 score was 56 of maximum score of 100. Specifically, African American women consumed significantly lower servings of whole grains (β = −1.71; 95% CI: −3.10 to −0.32; P <.05) and dairy (β = −1.42; 95% CI: −2.51 to −0.33; P <.05) compared with non-Hispanic white women. Hispanic women scored higher in daily intake of fruits (β = 0.98; 95% CI: 0.17-1.79; P <.05) and for consuming empty calories in moderation (β = 1.57; 95% CI: 0.06-3.09; P <.05). Frequency of intake of fast foods/outside meals was higher among African American women (57%, P =.025). Conclusion: Efforts are warranted to promote optimal nutrition among WIC pregnant women. Specifically, African American women are highly vulnerable to poor dietary habits during pregnancy. Further investigation of barriers/facilitators for healthy eating is necessary to address nutrition disparities among WIC pregnant women.
Beyond double-resonant Raman scattering: UV Raman spectroscopy on graphene, graphite and carbon nanotubes
Creators: name: Tyborski, Christoph
name: Herziger, Felix
name: Gillen, Roland
name: Maultzsch, Janina
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present an analysis of deep-UV Raman measurements of graphite, graphene and carbon nanotubes. For excitation energies above the strong optical absorption peak at the $M$ point in the Brillouin zone ($\approx 4.7\,\text{eV}$), we partially suppress double-resonant scattering processes and observe the two-phonon density of states of carbon nanomaterials. The measured peaks are assigned to contributions from LO, TO, and LA phonon branches, supported by calculations of the phonon dispersion. Moreover, we gain access to the infrared-active $E_{1u}$ mode in graphite. By lowering the excitation energy and thus allowing double-resonant scattering processes, we demonstrate the rise of the \textit{2D} mode in graphite with ultra-short phonon wave vectors.
The TOM Toolkit Development and Observing Program
Creators: name: Miller, Bryan
name: Briceno, Cesar
name: Ridgway, Stephen
name: Street, Rachel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The sheer volume of alerts and the sizes of the survey catalogs mean that traditional methods that rely on human review for classifying and sorting cannot be applied to this scale. If the process of classifying and responding to the LSST alert stream cannot keep up with the data rate, then many interesting targets could be missed. The process of classifying sources and executing observations must be automated.
description: Issue 1, June 2020
CHEOPS-TESS occultations of KELT-20b
Creators: name: Singh, Vikash
name: Scandariato, Gaetano
name: Smith, Alexis M S
name: Cubillos, Patricio E
name: Lendl, Monika
name: Bruno, Giovanni
name: Pagano, Isabella
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Exoplanets
TESS synergies with space missions and Surveys
CHEOPS
KELT-20b
Atmospheric characterization

description: Occultations provide unique opportunities to indirectly explore the dayside atmospheres of exoplanets. Our research focuses on the ultra-hot Jupiter KELT-20b, aiming to precisely measure its planetary radius, geometric albedo, and dayside brightness temperature. We achieve this by combining high-precision optical transits and occultation observations from CHEOPS with simultaneous TESS observations. Our findings include a time-averaged occultation depth of 82 ± 6 ppm from seven CHEOPS visits and 131 ± 8 ppm from four TESS sectors. These measurements, along with archival infrared data, enable us to estimate KELT-20b’s geometric albedo and dayside temperatures. Notably, its relatively high geometric albedo aligns with the trend of strongly irradiated planets exhibiting greater reflectivity. Furthermore, we observe hints of temporal variability in occultation depths, suggesting potential cloud cover dynamics along the planetary terminator.
Reentrant phase transitions and defensive alliances in social dilemmas with informed strategies
Creators: name: Szolnoki, Attila
name: Perc, Matjaz
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Knowing the strategy of an opponent in a competitive environment conveys obvious evolutionary advantages. But this information is costly, and the benefit of being informed may not necessarily offset the additional cost. Here we introduce social dilemmas with informed strategies, and we show that this gives rise to two cyclically dominant triplets that form defensive alliances. The stability of these two alliances is determined by the rotation velocity of the strategies within each triplet. A weaker strategy in a faster rotating triplet can thus overcome an individually stronger competitor. Fascinating spatial patterns favor the dominance of a single defensive alliance, but enable also the stable coexistence of both defensive alliances in very narrow regions of the parameter space. A continuous reentrant phase transition reveals before unseen complexity behind the stability of strategic alliances in evolutionary social dilemmas.
description: 6 two-column pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in Europhysics Letters
(502161) William Lyons
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Can a shift in the purchase of local foods by Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients impact the local economy?
Creators: name: Seguin, R.A.
name: Garner, J.
name: Jilcott Pitts, S.
name: Sitaker, M.
name: Morgan, E.H.
name: Kolodinsky, J.M.
name: Wang, W.
name: Ammerman, A.
name: Becot, F.A.
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2020

description: In recent years, several initiatives have sought to encourage redemption of food assistance benefits at direct-to-consumer (DTC) market venues such as community supported agriculture programs and farmers' markets in the USA, with the dual goal of increasing access to healthy foods for low-income families and sales of locally-grown foods for farmers. Proponents of these interventions assert that these programs have a positive impact on local economies yet there is limited evidence to validate this argument. This research project used a customized input-output model to simulate potential economic impacts of programs and policies that enable Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients to shift purchases from traditional food retailers to DTC venues in four states. Two different scenarios were explored: (1) increased outreach to low-income consumers and (2) financial support for using SNAP benefits at DTC market channels. We found a positive, though modest, economic impact at the state level under both scenarios when accounting for (a) business losses in the food retail and wholesale sectors, (b) a shift in acreage from commodity to specialty crops and (c) the cost to taxpayers. Since most of the increased economic activity would be in the produce farming sector, we discuss the opportunities and challenges for this sector along with potential policy implications.
Octavian Augustus at Apollonia and the statement of his astrological sign
Creators: name: Sparavigna, Amelia Carolina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Chronology
Augustus

description: The article discusses a possible link between the astrological sign of the Capricorn, that Octavian Augustus chose as his symbol, and the constellation in which the sun was at the beginning of the calendar of Julius Caesar, that is the First January of 45 BC. Augustus may have chosen this constellation as the symbol of the birth of a new age, which Caesar, his adoptive father, had established with the reform of the calendar. The astrological sign was assigned to Octavian when he was in Apollonia, in the same year of the reform, 45 BC. The “magnus gubernator” of the world was born. Under the sign of Capricorn, Octavian Augustus ruled the empire.
The impact of basic vs. enhanced Go NAPSACC on child care centers' healthy eating and physical activity practices: Protocol for a type 3 hybrid effectiveness-implementation cluster-randomized trial
Creators: name: Ammerman, A.S.
name: Willis, E.
name: Powell, B.J.
name: Ward, D.S.
name: Vaughn, A.E.
name: Studts, C.R.
name: Trogdon, J.G.
name: Curran, G.M.
name: Hales, D.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd.
Year: 2019

description: Background: To prevent childhood obesity and promote healthy development, health authorities recommend that child care programs use the evidence-based practices that foster healthy eating and physical habits in children. Go NAPSACC is an intervention shown to improve use of these recommended practices, but it is known to encounter barriers that limit its impact and widespread use. Methods: This study will use a type 3 hybrid effectiveness-implementation cluster-randomized trial to compare effectiveness and implementation outcomes achieved from Go NAPSACC delivered with a basic or enhanced implementation approach. Participants will include approximately 25 coaches from Child Care Aware of Kentucky (serving four geographic regions), 97 child care centers with a director and teacher from each and two cross-sectional samples of 485 3-4-year-old children (one recruitment at baseline, another at follow-up). Coaches will be randomly assigned to deliver Go NAPSACC using either the basic or enhanced implementation approach. "Basic Go NAPSACC" represents the traditional way of delivering Go NAPSACC. "Enhanced Go NAPSACC" incorporates preparatory and support activities before and during their Go NAPSACC work, which are guided by the Quality Implementation Framework and the Consolidated Framework for Implementation Research. Data will be collected primarily at baseline and post-intervention, with select measures continuing through 6, 12, and 24 months post-intervention. Guided largely by RE-AIM, outcomes will assess change in centers' use of evidence-based nutrition and physical activity practices (primary, measured via observation); centers' adoption, implementation, and maintenance of the Go NAPSACC program (assessed via website use); center directors', teachers', and coaches' perceptions of contextual factors (assessed via self-report surveys); children's eating and physical activity behaviors at child care (measured via observation and accelerometers); and cost-effectiveness (assessed via logs and expense tracking). The hypotheses anticipate that "Enhanced Go NAPSACC" will have greater effects than "Basic Go NAPSACC." Discussion: This study incorporates many lessons gleaned from the growing implementation science field, but also offers opportunities to address the field's research priorities, including applying a systematic method to tailor implementation strategies, examining the processes and mechanisms through which implementation strategies produce their effects, and conducting an economic evaluation of implementation strategies. Trial Registration: ClinicalTrials.gov, NCT03938103, Registered April 8, 2019
DRAGONS Science Quality Verification: A GMOS Imaging Example
Creators: name: Conseil, Simon
name: Turner, James
name: Thomas-Osip, Joanna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: DRAGONS
Gemini Observatory

description: Here we present an example of Gemini Multi-Object Spectrograph (GMOS) imaging and compare it with an equivalent Gemini IRAF reduction for the purpose of demonstrating similar photometric accuracy.
description: Issue 1, June 2020
Experimental entanglement-assisted quantum delayed-choice experiment
Creators: name: Xin, Tao
name: Li, Hang
name: Wang, Bi-Xue
name: Long, Gui-Lu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The puzzling properties of quantum mechanics, wave-particle duality, entanglement and superposition, were dissected experimentally at past decades. However, hidden-variable (HV) models, based on three classical assumptions of wave-particle objectivity, determinism and independence, strive to explain or even defeat them. The development of quantum technologies enabled us to test experimentally the predictions of quantum mechanics and HV theories. Here, we report an experimental demonstration of an entanglement-assisted quantum delayed-choice scheme using a liquid nuclear magnetic resonance quantum information processor. This scheme we realized is based on the recently proposed scheme [Nat. Comms. 5:4997(2014)], which gave different results for quantum mechanics and HV theories. In our experiments, the intensities and the visibilities of the interference are in consistent the theoretical prediction of quantum mechanics. The results imply that a contradiction is appearing when all three assumptions of HV models are combined, though any two of the above assumptions are compatible with it.
description: 8 pages, 1 table and 6 figures
ФАРҒОНА ВОДИЙСИ ЧЎЛЛАРИ БИОЦЕНОЗЛАРИДА УЧРОВЧИ ЎРГИМЧАК ТУРЛАРИ ВАКИЛЛАРИ.
Creators: name: Бахромова, Барно
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Мақолада Фарғона водийси чўллари биоценозларида тарқалган ўргимчаклар турлари ҳақида сўз боради. Тадқиқот нажижаларига кўра Фарғона водийси чўлларида туркумнинг 6 оилага мансуб 7 та тури яшаши мақолада ёритилган.
TEK twisted gradient flow running coupling
Creators: name: Pérez, Margarita García
name: González-Arroyo, Antonio
name: Keegan, Liam
name: Okawa, Masanori
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measure the running of the twisted gradient flow coupling in the Twisted Eguchi-Kawai (TEK) model, the SU(N) gauge theory on a single site lattice with twisted boundary conditions in the large N limit.
description: 7 pages, 3 figures, contribution to the 32nd International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory, 23-28 June, 2014. Columbia University New York, NY
The user safety assessment of a selenized yeast feed additive
Creators: name: Dillon, Gerry P.
name: Moran, Colm A.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Neuroscience
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy

description: Purpose: Of the several selenized yeasts authorised for use as feed additives in the EU, Saccharomyces cerevisiae CNCM I-3060 inactivated’ (Sel-Plex®), was the first to be approved for use, in 2006. The additive has a concentration of selenium between 2000 and 2400 mg/kg and a selenomethionine content greater than 63%. Previous toxicological and safety studies have shown Sel-Plex® to be safe for use for target animal species, consumers, users and the environment. A new formulation of Sel-Plex® was recently developed however, with a minimum selenium content of 3000 mg/kg. The increase in selenium in this product, Sel-Plex® 3000, presented the need to assess the risk for workers and users and to establish if there would be any eye and/or skin irritancy and skin sensitisation effects associated with the product. The purpose of this paper is to present the methodology and results of the user safety skin and eye studies performed on Sel-Plex® 3000. Materials & Methods: In vitro skin and eye models were used to assess skin and eye irritancy, while skin sensitisation was examined using an in vivo method. The acute eye irritation was evaluated using a Reconstructed human Cornea-like Epithelium (RhCE) model, which followed the OECD guideline 492. The skin irritation was assessed based on its ability to induce cell death in a commercial reconstructed human epidermis (RhE) model (EPISKIN™) according to the OECD Guideline No. 439. The skin sensitising potential was evaluated in the Guinea pig in line with OECD Guideline 406, and measured the extent and degree of skin reaction to a challenge exposure following previous topical exposure of a substance on the skin. Results: The skin and eye irritation test results showed that Sel-Plex® 3000 was a non-irritant in both cases. The skin sensitisation study showed that the additive did not generate a sensitisation response in the guinea pig and should not be considered a skin sensitiser. Conclusion: These results indicate that Sel-Plex® 3000 is safe to use for workers in an industrial setting when handling the product and the studies may be further used to support regulatory compliance in respective markets.
(502162) Isabella Black
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Community Science and Community Data: Past, Present, and Future
Creators: name: Bolton, Adam
name: Wolff, Sidney
name: Norman, Dara
name: Dickinson, Mark
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: The Community Science and Data Center (CSDC)

description: The Community Science and Data Center (CSDC) is NOIRLab's fifth mountaintop, after Kitt Peak, Cerro Tololo, Cerro Pachon, and Maunakea. It is a virtual rather than a geological mountaintop. The work "Community" in CSDC applies to both "Science" and "Data." The CSDC mission is to maximize community participation and science with all of NOIRLab's telescopes and data archives, now and in the future.
description: Issue 1, June 2020
Physical activity calorie expenditure (PACE) labels in worksite cafeterias: Effects on physical activity
Creators: name: Ammerman, A.S.
name: Deery, C.B.
name: Liu, Z.
name: Noar, S.M.
name: Olsson, E.
name: Lin, F.-C.
name: Viera, A.J.
name: Hales, D.
name: Linnan, L.
name: Viera, L.
name: Gras-Najjar, J.
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd.
Year: 2019

description: Background: Regular physical activity is an important component of healthy living and wellbeing. Current guidelines recommend that adults participate in at least 150 min of moderate or vigorous-intensity physical activity weekly. In spite of the benefits, just over half of U.S. adults meet these recommendations. Calorie-only food labels at points of food purchase have had limited success in motivating people to change eating behaviors and increase physical activity. One new point of purchase approach to promote healthy behaviors is the addition of food labels that display the physical activity requirement needed to burn the calories in a food item (e.g. walk 15 min). Methods: The Physical Activity Calorie Expenditure (PACE) Study compared activity-based calorie-expenditure food labels with calorie-only labels at three Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina worksite cafeterias. After 1 year of baseline data collection, one cafeteria had food items labeled with PACE labels, two others had calorie-only food labels. Cohort participants were asked to wear an accelerometer and complete a self-report activity questionnaire on two occasions during the baseline year and twice during the intervention year. Results: A total of 366 study participants were included in the analysis. In the PACE-label group, self-reported physical activity increased by 13-26% compared to the calorie-only label group. Moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) increased by 24 min per week in the PACE-label group compared to the calorie-label group (p = 0.06). Changes in accelerometer measured steps, sedentary time, and MVPA had modest increases. Change ranged from 1 to 12% with effect size values from 0.08 to 0.15. Baseline physical activity level significantly moderated the intervention effects for all physical activity outcomes. Participants in both label groups starting in the lowest tertile of activity saw the largest increase in their physical activity. Conclusion: Results suggest small positive effects for the PACE labels on self-reported and objective physical activity measures. Minutes of weekly MVPA, strength training, and exercise activities showed modest increases. These results suggest that calorie-expenditure food labels may result in some limited increases in physical activity.
(502160) Kate [Leary]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Reducing cardiovascular disease in a rural community
Creators: name: Samuel-Hodge, C.
name: Cykert, S.
name: Allgood, S.D.
name: Ammerman, A.S.
name: Rosemond, C.A.
name: Leeman, J.
Publisher: name: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
Year: 2019

description: In this case report, we describe the one-year formative phase of a five-year study to develop, implement, and test a community health worker (CHW)-delivered cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention intervention. The purpose of the formative phase was to engage community partners in the adaptation of an existing evidence-based CVD prevention intervention to fit the needs and preferences of a rural, predominantly African-American community. The formative work was guided by a framework for adapting evidence-based interventions and involved engaging stakeholders in assessing the intervention's fit with the local context and then applying assessment findings to iteratively adapt the intervention's contents, materials, and delivery methods. Findings from the formative work were then applied to develop CHW position descriptions, workflow diagrams, and a training plan. Findings also were applied to adapt intervention materials and protocols to fit the needs of the community. This case report illustrates how community-engaged formative work can be applied to adapt an evidence-based intervention to fit community needs and resources.
Supplementary document for Enhanced wavelength selectivity and stability of multilayer graphene-based infrared emissivity modulator using a silicon overlayer - 7411452.pdf
Creators: name: Yang, Kaiyu
name: Lin, Tong
name: Ke, Haibo
name: Cao, Ying
name: Fu, Lishi
name: Xian, Jinghuan
name: Yan, Xitong
name: Cai, Weiwei
name: Mu, Rui
name: Zhang, Xueao
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2025
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary Document
Serving Breakfast Free to All Students and Type of Breakfast Serving Model Are Associated with Participation in the School Breakfast Program
Creators: name: Ammerman, A.S.
name: Soldavini, J.
Publisher: name: Elsevier B.V.
Year: 2019

description: Background: Many students experience challenges participating in the School Breakfast Program (SBP) when breakfast is served before school in the cafeteria. Serving breakfast free to all students or offering innovative breakfast serving models, such as breakfast in the classroom (BIC), grab n’ go, or second chance breakfast, may encourage higher SBP participation rates. Objective: To examine the association between offering breakfast free to all students as well as breakfast serving model with student participation in the SBP in October 2017 among public schools in North Carolina. Design: Cross-sectional study using data from the North Carolina Department of Public Instruction. Participants/setting: This study included data from 2,285 North Carolina public schools who served breakfast in October 2017 with 1,445,287 students. Main outcome measures: The main outcome measures are the odds of a student participating in the SBP among students overall, students eligible for free or reduced-price (FRP) meals, and students not eligible for FRP meals. Statistical analyses performed: Multiple logistic regression assessed the association between offering breakfast free to all students and breakfast serving model with the probability of participating in the SBP (number of students participating out of number of students enrolled) for students overall, eligible for FRP meals, and not eligible for FRP meals. Statistical models were stratified by school type (elementary, middle, and high schools). Results: Breakfast serving models positively associated with SBP participation were BIC and BIC plus grab n’ go for elementary and high school students and grab n’ go and second chance for middle and high school students (P<0.05). Serving breakfast free to all students was positively associated with SBP participation alone and in combination with BIC, second chance, and BIC plus grab n’ go (P<0.05). Conclusions: Serving breakfast free to all students and breakfast serving model were associated with SBP participation, and different relationships existed for different school levels.
NOAO: Rest in Peace
Creators: name: Wolff, Sidney
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: National Optical Astronomy Observatories (NOAO)

description: I first came to the national observatory in 1984, just a year after John Jefferies was appointed as the first director of National Optical Astronomy Observatories, which then included KPNO, CTIO, and the National Solar Observatory (NSO). After retiring several times, I am now back at the national observatory working on the US Extremely Large Telescope Program (US-ELTP) and witnessing the creation of NSF’s NOIRLab. In a sense, then, I have observed nearly the entire lifetime of NOAO.
description: Issue 1, June 2020
title: Unbinding objects: exploring the practices of naming and jointing things
Creators: name: Chen, Yun-Ling
Publisher: name: University of Reading
Year: 2021

description: The aim of my thesis and practice is to examine how an artistic and literary practice
can reconfigure our human relationships with objects, so that we a) have a richer and 
more caring relationship with things, and b) can imagine alternative present and future 
environments.
‘Unbinding Objects’ refers to the joint objective of my thesis and practice, which is 
to challenge the normative perceptions and relations that are produced through a human-centric behavior towards objects. My thesis discloses the unstable identities of subject 
and object, I then respond to and exacerbate this unstableness through my practice. For 
example, there is a supplementary relationship between artwork and artist which I exploit 
within the process of maintaining my practice in the space of the gallery. The relationship 
of replenishing organic and inorganic materials within the exhibition timeframe, exposes 
our accustomed relationship to objects as restrictive and proposes instead a more active 
and networked engagement between viewer, artwork and artist.
My thesis explores how Anthropocentric thinking frames objects and limits them 
through identification, definition, and allocated purpose. My practice responds to these 
limits through seeking alternative paths and enabling a more dynamic encounter between 
human and object, as well as the mechanisms behind the making visible of art.
The thesis culminates in a call for humans and artists to unbind us from the processes by 
which humans are bound to a certain way of viewing the world and objects through 
naming, grammar and framing artworks. Therefore, my practice produces a new 
relationship with things through collective interpretation. I provide alternative access 
points to my writing and artistic process to enable a situated experience when 
encountering the text/artwork.
Transitions: Remembering the Past, Building the Future
Creators: name: Pilachowski, Caty
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: American astronomy without KPNO, CTIO, NOAO, and Gemini is hard to imagine. The contributions of our national observatories over 60 years have changed our culture, broadened our perspective, and provided opportunities for generations of astronomers.
description: Issue 1, June 2020
(502157) Joseph Kentigern Heydon
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Explicit representations for multiscale Lévy processes, and asymptotics of multifractal conservation laws
Creators: name: Górska, K.
name: Woyczynski, W. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Nonlinear conservation laws driven by Lévy processes have solutions which, in the case of supercritical nonlinearities, have an asymptotic behavior dictated by the solutions of the linearized equations. Thus the explicit representation of the latter is of interest in the nonlinear theory. In this paper we concentrate on the case where the driving Lévy process is a multiscale stable (anomalous) diffusion, which corresponds to the case of multifractal conservation laws considered in [1-4]. The explicit representations, building on the previous work on single-scale problems (see, e.g.,[5]), are developed in terms of the special functions (such as Meijer G functions), and are amenable to direct numerical evaluations of relevant probabilities.
THE ANTIFRICTIONAL COATINGS ON THE MOLYBDENUM BASE.
Creators: name: Sagalovich, Alex
name: Sagalovich, Vlad
name: Popov, V.v.
name: Kononyhin, A.V.
name: Bogoslavzev, V.I.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Aerospace Engineering
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering
subject: 90102 Aerospace Materials
subject: 99901 Agricultural Engineering
subject: FOS: Other engineering and technologies
subject: 90104 Aircraft Performance and Flight Control Systems
subject: 90204 Automotive Safety Engineering
subject: 90203 Automotive Mechatronics
subject: 91503 Engineering Practice
subject: 99999 Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: 91199 Maritime Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Environmental engineering
subject: 91299 Materials Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Materials engineering
subject: Mechanical Engineering
subject: 91399 Mechanical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: 91309 Tribology

description: Friction and wear of the antifrictional complex coatings on the molybdenum base were under investigation. Coatings were obtained using complex vacuum-plasma technologies under reactive coatings deposition utilizing vacuum arc deposition of Mo-N coating and RF-magnetron deposition of MoS2. Total coating thickness is 10 mkm. It was shown by means wear track profilography and acoustic emission investigation that such coatings are very effective working in pairs with hard coatings Ti-Al-N. During run-in period of exploitation such coatings shows low friction coefficient close to MoS2, but they have much more resistance to wear in many times greater than MoS2, and significantly more stable friction coefficients.
Tidal deformation of a slowly rotating material body. External metric
Creators: name: Landry, Philippe
name: Poisson, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct the external metric of a slowly rotating, tidally deformed material body in general relativity. The tidal forces acting on the body are assumed to be weak and to vary slowly with time, and the metric is obtained as a perturbation of a background metric that describes the external geometry of an isolated, slowly rotating body. The tidal environment is generic and characterized by two symmetric-tracefree tidal moments E_{ab} and B_{ab}, and the body is characterized by its mass M, its radius R, and a dimensionless angular-momentum vector χ^a << 1. The perturbation accounts for all couplings between χ^a and the tidal moments. The body's gravitational response to the applied tidal field is measured in part by the familiar gravitational Love numbers K^{el}_2 and K^{mag}_2, but we find that the coupling between the body's rotation and the tidal environment requires the introduction of four new quantities, which we designate as rotational-tidal Love numbers. All these Love numbers are gauge invariant in the usual sense of perturbation theory, and all vanish when the body is a black hole.
description: 17 pages, 0 figures, matches the published version
Thoughts on the National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Creators: name: Elmegreen, Debra Melogy
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: National Optical Astronomy Observatory (NOAO)
Kitt Peak National Observatory (KPNO)

description: I was a student of the 70s and marveled at Kitt Peak National Observatory and Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory (CTIO) each time I went observing over the next few decades
description: Issue 1, June 2020
Knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and behaviors regarding fruits and vegetables among cost-offset community-supported agriculture (csa) applicants, purchasers, and a comparison sample
Creators: name: Kolodinsky, J.
name: Jilcott Pitts, S.B.
name: Sitaker, M.
name: Timeon, E.
name: Seguin, R.A.
name: Wang, W.
name: Hwang, G.
name: Volpe, L.C.
name: Ammerman, A.S.
name: Hanson, K.L.
Publisher: name: MDPI AG
Year: 2019

description: Community-supported agriculture (CSA) participation has been associated with high fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption, which may be due to better access to FV for CSA purchasers, or to positive knowledge, attitudes, and beliefs (KAB) regarding healthy eating among CSA applicants. The objective of this study was to examine KAB and consumption, in association with application to a cost-offset CSA (CO-CSA) program, and with CO-CSA purchase among applicants. We conducted a cross-sectional survey of CO-CSA applicants and a comparison sample in August 2017. All respondents were English-reading adults with a child 2–12 years old and household income of < 185% of the federal poverty level. Among CO-CSA applicants, some were CO-CSA purchasers (n = 46) and some were not (n = 18). An online comparison sample met equivalent eligibility criteria, but had not participated in CSA for three years (n = 105). We compared CO-CSA applicants to the comparison sample, and compared purchasers and non-purchaser sub-groups, using Mann- Whitney U tests and chi-square analysis. CO-CSA applicants reported better knowledge, selfefficacy, home habits, and diet than the comparison sample. Among applicants, CO-CSA purchasers and non-purchasers had equivalent KAB, but children in purchaser households had higher FV consumption than in non-purchaser households (4.14 vs. 1.83 cups, P = 0.001). Future research should explore associations between CO-CSA participation and diet using experimental methods.
Renormalization group analysis of the pair-density-wave and charge order within the fermionic hot-spot model for cuprate superconductors
Creators: name: Freire, Hermann
name: de Carvalho, Vanuildo S.
name: Pépin, Catherine
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In light of the new experimental and theoretical important developments in high-$T_c$ superconductivity, we revisit the fermionic hot-spot model relevant to the phenomenology of the cuprates. We extend previous results by means of a complete two-loop order renormalization group (RG) framework. Here, we explicitly study the effect of the charge-density-wave (CDW) order parameter with a $d$-wave form factor with the experimentally observed modulation $(\pm Q_0,0)$ and $(0,\pm Q_0)$ at the infrared-stable nontrivial fixed point obtained previously for this model. Additionally, we proceed to investigate also the so-called pair-density-wave (PDW) order that was recently proposed in the literature as a possible candidate for the "hidden" order to describe the pseudogap phase observed in underdoped cuprates. We confirm that although the above two ordering tendencies are also found to be nearly degenerate both at one-loop and two-loop RG orders and linked by an emergent $SU(2)$ pseudospin symmetry, they turn out to be subleading for weaker couplings in the present model to antiferromagnetism, $d$-wave bond-density wave (BDW) order with modulation along Brillouin zone diagonals $(\pm Q_0,\pm Q_0)$, and $d$-wave singlet superconductivity (SSC). However, as we increase the strength of the initial coupling towards moderate values, we do capture a tendency for the entangled PDW/CDW order to become leading compared to BDW/SSC in the model, which suggests that the former composite order might be indeed a viable concept to describe some cuprate superconductors at high temperatures in the underdoped regime, as has been recently alluded to by many authors in the literature.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures. Published version
(502158) Alice Mary Leary
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Dynamics of intervention adoption, implementation, and maintenance inside organizations: The case of an obesity prevention initiative
Creators: name: Ammerman, A.
name: Jalali, M.S.
name: Lee-Kwan, S.H.
name: Gittelsohn, J.
name: Rahmandad, H.
name: Bullock, S.L.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Ltd
Year: 2019

description: Overall impact of public health prevention interventions relies not only on the average efficacy of an intervention, but also on the successful adoption, implementation, and maintenance (AIM) of that intervention. In this study, we aim to understand the dynamics that regulate AIM of organizational level intervention programs. We focus on two well-documented obesity prevention interventions, implemented in food carry-outs and stores in low-income urban areas of Baltimore, Maryland, which aimed to improve dietary behaviour for adults by providing access to healthier foods and point-of-purchase promotions. Building on data from field observations, in-depth interviews, and data discussed in previous publications, as well as the strategy and organizational behaviour literature, we developed a system dynamics model of the key processes of AIM. With simulation analysis, we show several reinforcing mechanisms that span stakeholder motivation, communications, and implementation quality and costs can turn small changes in the process of AIM into big difference in the overall impact of the intervention. Specifically, small changes in the allocation of resources to communication with stakeholders of intervention could have a nonlinear long-term impact if those additional resources can turn stakeholders into allies of the intervention, reducing the erosion rates and enhancing sustainability. We present how the dynamics surrounding communication, motivation, and erosion can create significant heterogeneity in the overall impact of otherwise similar interventions. Therefore, careful monitoring of how those dynamics unfold, and timely adjustments to keep the intervention on track are critical for successful implementation and maintenance.
(502159) Alfred Leary
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: State of charge estimation for lithium-ion batteries with model-based algorithms
Creators: name: Lotfivand, A
Publisher: name: Liverpool John Moores University
Year: 2023

description: Electric vehicles have revolutionized automotive manufacturing in recent years. However, they are faced with some challenges that are essential to overcome to have an acceptable performance. Therefore, these kinds of vehicles need a safe, fast charging, and extended life cycle battery. Lithium-ion batteries have these characteristics and are used in different state-of-the-art industries. Having reliable data for the Lithium-ion batteries Battery Management System (BMS) is critical. They are required to monitor and control all parameters such as State of Charge and State of Health. These parameters cannot be measured directly, and the system should estimate them accurately and reliably. This study consists of 5 main parts: literature review, modelling, research methodology, data collection, and data analysis and interpretation. Firstly, the recent papers related to methods of SOC (State of Charge) estimation were reviewed to find out the existing algorithms’ productivity and deeply realized in literature reviewing step. Because of their inherent safety, fast charging capacity, and extended cycle life, lithium-ion batteries are preferred over other types of batteries in electric vehicle applications. It's critical to be able to determine state factors like state of charge and state of health to generate an accurate battery model. The state of charge estimation algorithms for generic Lithium-ion batteries were enhanced using LA92 drive cycle experiment data. To begin, a mathematical model for an analogous circuit battery was created with the goal of accurately imitating the behaviour of a lithium-ion battery. The Thevenin model is created by 2 RC branches and identifies the model parameters with the Coulomb Counting, Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) and Unscented Kalman Filter (UKF). The Hybrid Pulse Power Characterization (HPPC) test data obtained at 40°C, 25°C, 10°C, 0°C, and -10°C are used to calculate the OCV 3-dimensional curve as a function of SOC and T (Temperature). A comparison of the three methods is shown, indicating that the UKF method of battery SOC evaluation is more accurate than the Coulomb Counting method and EKF.