cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Parameter estimation in atomic spectroscopy using exceptional points
Creators: name: Am-Shallem, Morag
name: Kosloff, Ronnie
name: Moiseyev, Nimrod
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dynamics of spontaneous emission of an atomic system is studied in the framework of an open quantum system. The resulting quantum master equation for the atomic system is non hermitian. The generator $\mathcal{L}$ can possess non-hermitian degeneracies, i.e. exceptional points ($EP$), for specific values of the external laser driving amplitude and detuning from the atomic lines. We suggest to employ the special properties of these $EP$s for accurate parameter estimation. The method is demonstrated for the atomic spectrum of $S \rightarrow P$ transitions of $~^{85}$Rb and $~^{40}$Ca$~^+$.
description: 28 pages, 6 figures
School-based programs for preventing smoking and alcohol misuse in children and adolescents: A review of systematic reviews
Creators: name: Hodder, Rebecca
name: O'Brien, Kate
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Public Health Education and Promotion
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: adolescent
subject: alcohol
subject: child
subject: intervention
subject: review of reviews
subject: tobacco

description: This review aims to summarise reviews that assess the effectiveness of school-based programs in preventing smoking and alcohol misuse in school-aged children up to 18 years of age
MPEC 2023-O76 : 2023 OW1
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 OW1

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Despotism In New London, Connecticut? Or Economic Development Along the Thames River? Susette Kelo in Kelo v. New London asks the Supreme Court To Hold Economic Development Unconstitutional under the Public Use Doctrine
Creators: name: Hartigan, Erin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005
Subjects: Dedication to public use
Eminent domain
Kelo, Susette

description: Byron Athenian... had his little garage where he used to fix cars. People would hang out there. The area had the Italian Dramatic Club and a Spanish church. This was like an oasis away from the rest of the city. These were doers, not drifters. --Philip Langdon, Eminent Domain Goes to Court, PLANNING, Apr. 2005, at 14. With these words, Richard Humphreville, a cabinetmaker who has operated a shop in the Fort Trumbull area in New London, Connecticut, for 22 years, described his neighborhood. But the City of New London and the New London Development Corporation (NLDC) had a different view of Fort Trumbull: "Twenty percent of the residential properties were vacant," said an attorney for the NLDC, Edward O'Connell. "It was not a thriving area." Id. When Pfizer, the pharmaceutical giant, announced its plans to build a $270 million facility in New London, the City and the NLDC decided to piggyback on this revitalization of the tax base. The City envisioned a new, 90-acre development project consisting of a 'Riverwalk,' offices, a hotel, and 'upscale' housing, and the City envisioned this project being built right where Richard Humphreville and his neighbors lived. Id. The problem inhered in the holdouts- those who refused to sell their land to New London, which would in turn sell the land to private developers, who would build the project. The City thought it had a solution: acting through the NLDC, it simply condemned the land, and thus created the impetus for a landmark case now before the Supreme Court, Kelo v. New London. Susette Kelo and eight of her neighbors argue that the Takings Clause of the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution forbids economic development in non-blighted neighborhoods like hers, because condemning the land in order to transfer it to a private party offends the 'public use' requirement of the Clause ("nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation"). The City and the NLDC argue that courts have always deferred to the decisions of local government in the exercise of eminent domain, and that to hold otherwise would be tantamount to legislation via judicial fiat. The following is an attempt to analyze the parties' claims and to suggest whose view the Court will find more sympathetic, as well as a conclusion as to whose view the Court should find more sympathetic.
Additional file 10 of Casein kinase 1α mediates estradiol secretion via CYP19A1 expression in mouse ovarian granulosa cells
Creators: name: Luo, Xuan
name: Zhang, Di
name: Zheng, Jiaming
name: Liu, Hui
name: Sun, Longjie
name: Guo, Hongzhou
name: Wang, Lei
name: Cui, Sheng
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 10. Figure S7. Histological analysis of ovarian GCs from the eight-week control and cKO mice. Paraffin slices of ovaries tissues were stained with hematoxylin, the binding of GCs in cKO mice was loose and irregular, the boundary of the zona pellucida between granulosa cells and oocytes disappeared, and oocytes were shrinking and formed atretic follicles. Scale bar = 100 μm. Each tissue was analyzed in three biological replicates
An analysis of planned unit development (PUD) regulations and processes in Washington, DC: a development risk management case study
Creators: name: Moravec, Alexandra Croft
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: The following report details the current state of the Planned Unit Development (PUD) regulations and procedures in Washington, DC. Based on interviews with planners, community leaders, land use attorneys, architects, and developers with extensive experience working on PUDs, the report answers the questions: how are the regulations and the processes currently working, and what are their specific strengths and weaknesses? The report finds that the process's overarching shortcoming is its uncertainty: developers seldom know how long the process will take, or what the final required proffer to the community will be. The large variation between proffer packages and the variation of timing is caused, in large part, by the fact that communities do not know how to get involved in the PUD process, and are unsure about the breadth and scope of their allowed involvement. This variability of outcomes makes it challenging for developers to embark upon new PUD projects, since the more closely they can model expected outcomes, the more carefully they can manage the inherent risk involved in undertaking PUDs, and vice versa. In addition to making the process difficult for developers, the discrepancies between final PUD proffer packages may seem inequitable to communities, many of which may feel unfairly treated when they receive far less in a PUD negotiation than another neighborhood or community. In light of these findings, this report recommends a number of ways to improve DC's PUD process; these recommendations are a menu of options from which the city can pick and choose to meet its goals. First, the city could much more clearly state the rules and timing of engagement between communities and developers. Second, once the process is more clearly defined, DCOP could actively educate communities about how the process works and how they can get involved productively. The city could conduct training sessions with ANC members and other community leaders. Third, DCOP could act as a facilitator for communities, helping guide them through their role in the PUD process. Fourth, DCOP (or some other third party) could act as a mediator in all interactions between the communities and the developers. This third party's role would be to keep the process organized and equitable, and to act as a referee, or an objective "truth-teller." Fifth, communities could create their own inventories of needed improvements, before any PUDs are begun, so that developers could base their initial proffers off of those lists of needed items. Sixth, it is possible to shorten other aspects of the process - outside the community-developer interaction - that delay it unnecessarily.
title: Role of MDCT for detection of early postoperative complications after gastrectomy
Creators: name: Akchurina, Elvira
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Outcomes
subject: Haemorrhage
subject: Abscess
subject: Outcomes analysis
subject: Contrast agent-oral
subject: Complications
subject: CT
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: To know the main complications after gastrectomy in the early postoperative period and their CT...
Prejudice Mapping
Creators: name: Freng, Scott
name: Schweitzer, Kimberly
name: Estrada-Reynolds, Victoria
name: Leki, Elizabeth
name: Choi, Samuel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Prejudice Mapping

description: This is a registration of data and materials used in a research study to map regional prejudice toward African Americans in the United States.
1876-1877 - Vol 7
Creators: name: University, Oxford
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023

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title: New Scheme for Automated Adjustment of Display Conditions in Brain Diffusion-Weighted Magnetic Resonance Images and Apparent Diffusion Coefficient Maps with Hyperacute Ischemic Stroke Using Cross-Correlation Values for Density Histogram
Creators: name: Nagashima, Hiroyuki
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Head and neck
subject: Emergency
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: MR-Diffusion/Perfusion
subject: CAD
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Physics
subject: Ischaemia / Infarction

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DWI) can demonstrate clearly the ischemic regions, and can identify with higher detection sensitivity. Moreover, apparent diffusion coefficient (ADC) maps derived from the DWIs and concurrent images (b...
From development to implementation of hazard mitigation plans: importance of intergovernmental relations, citizen participation and integration of hazard mitigation in local comprehensive plans
Creators: name: Terashima, Sayuri
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: This paper investigates several factors that allow local governments to move from development to implementation of their hazard mitigation plans. While guidelines exist on creating good quality hazard mitigation plans, there are no such conclusive findings for actually executing the actions identified in these plans. Specifically, this paper examines the role of three factors in being able to more effectively implement the plans. First, it explores the role of the nature of intergovernmental relations among the administrators involved in the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program in being able to successfully elevate structures or acquire properties. Second, it investigates the role of stakeholder participation in the hazard mitigation plan development process and its relationship with a good quality plan. Thirdly, it investigates the degree of integration of hazard mitigation in local land use plans. The study methodology includes a survey of the administrators of HMGP, and evaluations of the plans by using a plan evaluation protocol. The study is conducted for three counties in eastern North Carolina: Dare, Hyde and Pamlico. Findings indicate that high levels of trust and involvement of the administrators is a prerequisite to being able to successfully implement grant funds to remove people permanently out of harm's way. Furthermore, it is found that planner involvement in the hazard mitigation plan development process is important, not only to incorporate more stakeholder involvement, but also to make the link between the policies in the plans with land use management tools that are identified in comprehensive plans and used daily by local decision makers.
A static spherically symmetric thin shell wormhole colliding with a spherical thin shell
Creators: name: Gao, Sijie
name: Wang, Xiaobao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a static spherically symmetric thin shell wormhole collides with another thin shell consisting of ordinary matter. By employing the geometrical constraint, which leads to the conservation of energy and momentum, we show that the state after the collision can be solved from the initial data. In the low speed approximation, the solutions are rather simple. The shell may either bounce back or pass through the wormhole. In either case, the wormhole shrinks right after the collision. In the "bouncing" case, a surprising result is that the radial speeds before and after the collision satisfy an addition law, which is independent of the masses of the wormhole and the shell. Once the shell passes through the wormhole, we find that the shell always expands. However, the expansion rate is the same as its collapsing rate right before the collision. Finally, we find out the solution for the shell moving together with the wormhole.
description: 14 pages, 4 figures
title: Predictive value of MRI and US in the detection of fetal posterior fossa anomalies
Creators: name: Ibrahim, Rania
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Obstetrics (Pregnancy / birth / postnatal period)
subject: Foetal imaging
subject: Neuroradiology brain
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Computer Applications-3D

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: The study aimed to evaluate the accuracy and the predictive values of fetal MRI and US in the detection of PF anomalies comparing their end results with the post delivery scans. Review the normal US and MRI landmarks of the developing fetal PF...
Evolution of the electronic and lattice structure with carrier injection in BiFeO$_3$
Creators: name: He, Xu
name: Jin, Kui-juan
name: Guo, Hai-zhong
name: Ge, Chen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a density functional study on the evolution of the electronic and lattice structure in BiFeO$_3$ with injected electrons and holes. First, the self-trapping of electrons and holes were investigated. We found that the injected electrons tend to be localized on Fe sites due to the local lattice expansion, the on-site Coulomb interaction of Fe $3d$ electrons, and the antiferromagnetic order in BiFeO$_3$. The injected holes tend to be delocalized if the on-site Coulomb interaction of O $2p$ is weak (in other words, $U_\mathrm{O}$ is small). Single center polarons and multi-center polarons are formed with large and intermediate $U_\mathrm{O}$, respectively. With intermediate $U_\mathrm{O}$, multi-center polarons can be formed. We also studied the lattice distortion with the injection of carriers by assuming the delocalization of these carriers. We found that the ferroelectric off-centering of BiFeO$_3$ increases with the concentration of the electrons injected and decreases with that of the holes injected. It was also found that a structural phase transition from $R3c$ to the non-ferroelectric $Pbnm$ occurs, with the hole concentration over 8.7$\times10^{19} cm^{-3}$. The change of the off-centering is mainly due to the change of the lattice volume. The understanding of the carrier localization mechanism can help to optimize the functionality of ferroelectric diodes and the ferroelectric photovoltage devices, while the understanding of the evolution of the lattice with carriers can help tuning the ferroelectric properties by the carriers in BiFeO$_3$.
Zoning Alternatives: Current Trends and New Directions
Creators: name: Goldstein, Jeremy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: Zoning as a method for development regulation has always been effective, though in recent years innovative alternatives to conventional zoning are being implemented in an attempt to facilitate improved planning outcomes. This project looks critically at three zoning alternatives; performance zoning, Transect Planning, and Houston's no-zoning to determine the extent to which each alternative improves upon conventional zoning. Each alternative was qualitatively measured on its ability to reverse four generally agreed upon zoning flaws while maintaining three of its benefits. The findings point to real successes in each of the three alternatives, particularly transect planning, but uncover unavoidable inadequacies in each as well. In light of these findings, a new zoning alternative called the Sustainable Development Deviation method is proposed that may better solve the problems of zoning while being consistent with good planning principles. In the place of rigid zoning is a recommended zoning map. Reasonable deviations from recommended land uses are allowed in lieu of a linkage fee with which the municipality can ensure that environment and equity outcomes are not inhibited. Using this method, new development can increase economic outcomes while maintaining ecology and equity outcomes, thus creating increased optimality in the balance between economy, ecology and equity. It is believed that this method allows both developers and planners to achieve their professional goals while resulting in higher quality planning outcomes.
title: Our experiences with Virtual CT pneumocystography and the detection of bladder cancer.
Creators: name: Nikolova, Sonja
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Infection
subject: Cancer
subject: Calcifications / Calculi
subject: Cystography / Uretrography
subject: Contrast agent-other
subject: Computer Applications-Detection, diagnosis
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: CT
subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Our goal was to evaluate the prospect of future use, sensitivity and specificity of CT volume- rendering techniques in the evaluation of bladder wall changes, without the need of conventional endoscopic procedures which is limited by its...
Fundamental Asymmetry in Quenches Between Integrable and Nonintegrable Systems
Creators: name: Rigol, Marcos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study quantum quenches between integrable and nonintegrable hard-core boson models in the thermodynamic limit with numerical linked cluster expansions. We show that while quenches in which the initial state is a thermal equilibrium state of an integrable model and the final Hamiltonian is nonintegrable (quantum chaotic) lead to thermalization, the reverse is not true. While this might appear counterintuitive given the fact that the eigenstates of both Hamiltonians are related by a unitary transformation, we argue that it is generic. Hence, the lack of thermalization of integrable systems is robust against quenches starting from stationary states of nonintegrable ones. Nonintegrable systems thermalize independently of the nature of the initial Hamiltonian.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, as published
Attitude change over time through long-term persuasion: Building a decision-making model
Creators: name: Nakamura, Saki
name: Miura, Asako
name: Inamasu, Kazunori
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: attitude change
subject: experience sampling method
subject: persuasion

description: The purpose of this study is to clarify the decision-making process of long-term persuasion by focusing on changes in attitudes over time, and to test the validity of conventional theories. We measure voters' attitudes during a referendum on the "Osaka Metropolis" in November 2020 as an example of a long-term persuasion situation using an empirical sampling method.
1871 - Vol 2
Creators: name: University, Oxford
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023

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Footprints of Loop I on Cosmic Microwave Background Maps
Creators: name: von Hausegger, Sebastian
name: Liu, Hao
name: Mertsch, Philipp
name: Sarkar, Subir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cosmology has made enormous progress through studies of the cosmic microwave background, however the subtle signals being now sought such as B-mode polarisation due to primordial gravitational waves are increasingly hard to disentangle from residual Galactic foregrounds in the derived CMB maps. We revisit our finding that on large angular scales there are traces of the nearby old supernova remnant Loop I in the WMAP 9-year map of the CMB and confirm this with the new SMICA map from the Planck satellite.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures; accepted for publication in JCAP with minor changes
title: Gadolinium-chelating nanogels as MR contrast agents specifically targeting tumor cells
Creators: name: pardo, salvatore
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Molecular, genomics and proteomics
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR-Functional imaging
subject: MR
subject: Molecular imaging
subject: Contrast agents

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: High dosages of (Gd3+)-based T1contrast agents (CAs) are required for MRI of tumors, in order to overcome the limitations due to their low sensitivity and inefficient accumulation at the target site, potentially causing sides effects or even sever...
TIF 2.0: upgrading state and local tax increment financing policy in North Carolina
Creators: name: Levengood, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Tax increment financing (TIF) is a local economic development tool that has grown in popularity over the past several decades. Originally intended to spur development in blighted neighborhoods, TIF has become a versatile financing instrument approved in every state but Arizona. Despite this popularity, the tool has been criticized as a public subsidy for developers and an undemocratic method of bypassing voter approval to take financial risks. Supporters, meanwhile, have argued that TIF promotes private investment, creates jobs, and increases property values and tax revenues. The knowledge gained from this research, along with a growing backlash against government incentives, has led to gradual reforms in TIF policy. A principal reform has been the strengthening of state enabling statutes; however, even with this protection, municipalities continue to pursue financially risky and ultimately unsuccessful TIF developments. One place that demonstrates this problem is North Carolina. With voters having approved TIF enabling legislation as recently as 2004, the state was one of the last in the country to make TIF a legal financing mechanism. Accordingly, North Carolina's TIF legislation is one of the nation's strictest, intended to prevent the burdensome and inequitable outcomes that have plagued TIF in other states. Despite these regulations, North Carolina's first experience with TIF was an overwhelmingly negative one. Carolina Crossroads, a TIF-financed regional entertainment complex located in Roanoke Rapids, was fraught with unrealistic expectations, mismanagement, and even alleged fraud. Consequently, the project neither produced a profit nor increased property values, forcing the city to cut government programs and contemplate tax increases to repay TIF bonds. Despite these consequences, however, the Roanoke Rapids' failure also produced a few positive impacts. It inspired, for example, modest reforms to the state's TIF approval process and provided a foil on which to build future policy. To date, however, only one North Carolina municipality has elected to give TIF another shot. In 2008 the Town of Woodfin, in partnership with Buncombe County, took out bonds to redevelop a TIF district centered on the town's "downtown corridor." Unlike Roanoke Rapids, however, Woodfin's experience with TIF has been a positive one. Not only has the project succeeded in attracting new investment, it has also set a precedent on how to create a fiscally responsible and economically beneficial TIF district.
A Charged Membrane Paradigm at Large D
Creators: name: Bhattacharyya, Sayantani
name: Mandlik, Mangesh
name: Minwalla, Shiraz
name: Thakur, Somyadip
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the effective dynamics of black hole horizons in Einstein-Maxwell theory in a large number of spacetime dimensions $D$. We demonstrate that horizon dynamics may be recast as a well posed initial value problem for the motion of a codimension one non gravitational membrane moving in flat space. The dynamical degrees of freedom of this membrane are its shape, charge density and a divergence free velocity field. We determine the equations that govern membrane dynamics at leading order in the large $D$ expansion. Our derivation of the membrane equations assumes that the solution preserves an SO$(D-p-2)$ isometry with $p$ held fixed as $D$ is taken to infinity. However we are able to cast our final membrane equations into a completely geometric form that makes no reference to this symmetry algebra.
description: 48 pages, 10 pages appendix, Minor typographical errors corrected, comments added in section 5
Gossip 326855
Creators: name: Li, Jie
name: Pan, Jingzhou
name: Lian, Huiwen
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Business
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This is one of a series of experiments examining people’s perceptions of and reactions to gossip. In particular, we manipulate two factors in a two-by-two between-subject designed experiment: the frequency of negative gossip (often vs. never) and the frequency of positive gossip (often vs. never). Participants, who are recipients of gossip, will be assigned to one of the four conditions or control conditions. Every participant will read a scenario. After that, they will answer a list of questions to indicate their perceptions and evaluations on the gossiper described in the scenario.
title: The use of Dynamic Contrast Enhanced-Ultrasound (DCE-US ) to evaluate early response to anti-angiogenic drug in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma(HCC)
Creators: name: Bolzacchini, Elena
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Outcomes
subject: Cancer
subject: Contrast agent-other
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Liver

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Explain the role of Dynamic Contrast Enhanced-Ultrasound ( DCE-US) to evaluate the response to target therapy in advanced hepatocellular carcinoma...
Identifying and addressing heirs property: a case study of Wake County, North Carolina
Creators: name: Bartels, Catherine T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: If a property owner dies without a will in the United States, their property becomes known as heirs property. Heirs property is a significant legal issue for homeowners and communities across the American southeast. Because the deeds of heirs property remain in the name of the deceased property owner, it is difficult to determine where heirs property is and how much exists. Therefore, it is difficult to assess its impact on communities. This paper proposes a method for identifying heirs property and judging their community impacts. It uses Wake County, North Carolina as a case study. This paper also discusses current and proposed community options for dealing with heirs property.
LSQ13fn: A type II-Plateau supernova with a possibly low metallicity progenitor that breaks the standardised candle relation
Creators: name: Polshaw, J.
name: Kotak, R.
name: Dessart, L.
name: Fraser, M.
name: Gal-Yam, A.
name: Inserra, C.
name: Sim, S. A.
name: Smartt, S. J.
name: Sollerman, J.
name: Baltay, C.
name: Rabinowitz, D.
name: Benetti, S.
name: Botticella, M. T.
name: Campbell, H.
name: Chen, T. -W.
name: Galbany, L.
name: McKinnon, R.
name: Nicholl, M.
name: Smith, K. W.
name: Sullivan, M.
name: Takats, K.
name: Valenti, S.
name: Young, D. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present optical imaging and spectroscopy of supernova (SN) LSQ13fn, a type II supernova with several hitherto-unseen properties. Although it initially showed strong symmetric spectral emission features attributable to \ion{He}{ii}, \ion{N}{iii}, and \ion{C}{iii}, reminiscent of some interacting SNe, it transitioned into an object that would fall more naturally under a type II-Plateau (IIP) classification. However, its spectral evolution revealed several unusual properties: metal lines appeared later than expected, were weak, and some species were conspicuous by their absence. Furthermore, the line velocities were found to be lower than expected given the plateau brightness, breaking the SNe~IIP standardised candle method for distance estimates. We found that, in combination with a short phase of early-time ejecta-circumstellar material interaction, metal-poor ejecta, and a large progenitor radius could reasonably account for the observed behaviour. Comparisons with synthetic model spectra of SNe~IIP of a given progenitor mass would imply a progenitor star metallicity as low as 0.1\,Z$_{\odot}$. LSQ13fn highlights the diversity of SNe~II and the many competing physical effects that come into play towards the final stages of massive star evolution immediately preceding core-collapse.
description: 17 pages, 11 figures, 6 tables, published in A&A
1870 - Vol 1
Creators: name: University, Oxford
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023

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title: How to trigger radiation dose-alerts accounting for patient posture?
Creators: name: De Bondt, Timo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Dosimetric comparison
subject: Radiation safety
subject: Dosimetry
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: CT
subject: Radioprotection / Radiation dose
subject: Computer applications

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Registering and reducing patient radiation dose is a hot topic in modern radiology [1-2]. Awareness of the malignant effects of ionizing radiation is growing, especially for pediatric populations [3-4]. An increasing number of hosptials are now...
Saving for homeownership: An analysis of saving across the foreclosure crisis
Creators: name: Billings, Taylor
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Homeownership is an important means of building wealth, especially for low-income and minority households; however, the financial crisis had devastating effects on these same people who stand to benefit from homeownership. This study uses data on low- and moderate-income renters to analyze differences in saving for homeownership, especially by race, ethnicity, and country of birth. The panel analysis looks at survey data from before and after the financial crisis to determine how savings behavior may have changed. Initial findings show that Hispanics are more likely than whites to save for a house, especially prior to the crisis. Panel analysis also suggests that blacks are also more likely than whites to save. These findings have important implications as those who could perhaps benefit most from homeownership were more likely to save but were also hit hardest by the effects of the crisis.
Gravity-mode period spacings of the hybrid γ Doradus/δ Scuti star HD 49434
Creators: name: Meadows, George
name: Brunsden, Emily
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The gravity (g-) mode pulsations of γ Doradus stars are ideal probes of the convective core boundary, and their non-equidistant spacings, a robust measure of near-core rotation and chemical mixing. For hybrid stars which also pulsate in pressure modes, this can be extended to the outer envelope, enabling differential studies and unparalleled constraints on stellar structure. Our work aimed to identify the pulsation frequencies of a candidate hybrid γ Doradus\δ Scuti star and use these to inform its g-mode period spacings. We used iterative prewhitening to extract the pulsation frequencies and then group these according to spectroscopic geometric description, forming the basis of the search for period spacings in the datasets. Our results suggest HD 49434 exhibits 12 successive quadrupole (l=2) sectoral (l=m) g modes and 6 successive dipole (l=1) sectoral g modes in the form of two distinct patterns of decreasing period spacing. Additionally, the large local dips in the quadrupole series suggest mode trapping in layers of chemical inhomogeneity. The detection of independent modes in the γ Doradus and δ Scuti regimes is confirmation that HD 49434 pulsates in both pressure modes and g modes. The patterns presented in this analysis provide a strong foundation for the future asteroseismic analysis of HD 49434, enabling a better understanding of stars in the hybrid regime.
title: Dual-energy CT with a split bolus: a one-stop shop for patients with suspected urinary stones?
Creators: name: Toepker, Michael
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Urinary Tract / Bladder
subject: CT
subject: Computer Applications-Virtual imaging

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To evaluate a new dual-energy split-bolus CT protocol for providing the diagnostic information of a virtual non-contrast (VNC) phase, a parenchymal phase, and a urograhic phase in a single scan. The aim of this study was to assess the sensitivity of...
title: MultiHance, a high relaxivity agent approved for peripheral MRA: review of the data from peer-reviewed literature
Creators: name: Pirovano, Gianpaolo
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Vascular
subject: MR-Angiography
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: MultiHance (gadobenate dimeglumine) is a gadolinium-based contrast agent (GBCA) with unique features that render it appropriate for MRA applications (Fig. 1). It was approved for MRA assessmment of patients with known or suspected renal or...
title: Imaging findings of gastrointestinal stromal tumours (GISTs)
Creators: name: Praia, Joao
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Neoplasia
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Contrast agent-oral
subject: Contrast agent-intravenous
subject: Ultrasound
subject: MR
subject: CT
subject: Stomach (incl. Oesophagus)
subject: Gastrointestinal tract
subject: Abdomen

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: Brief overview of the epidemiological, macroscopical, histological,cytological and clinical characteristics of Gastrointestinal Stromal Tumours (GISTs). To illustrate and describe imaging findings that suggest the diagnosis of GISTs. Description of...
An Examination of the Relationship between Neighborhood Characteristics and Travel Energy Consumption in Beijing, China
Creators: name: Tu, Yichun
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The objectives of this study are to examine the characteristics of representative neighborhoods in Beijing and explore the impacts of those characteristics on travel and household travel energy consumption. As low-carbon development has become the core theme of China’s urbanization, many cities have prioritized efforts to development carbon emissions reduction strategies. Beijing has been identified as one of the low-carbon pilot cities and mandated to integrate low-carbon urban spatial planning in their urban city-wide land use plan. This study, therefore, aims to take an empirical approach to examining the relationship between the neighborhoods characteristics and travel/travel energy consumption in the context of Beijing. Six representative neighborhood typologies were identified based on their physical form and design attributes. Fifteen neighborhoods were sampled. Neighborhood characteristics (density, diversity, design, and location), household attributes (household size, number of employment, household income, and personal attributes), and travel and travel energy consumption were examined and compared across typologies. Multivariate regression models were employed to estimate the effects of neighborhoods characteristics on mode choice and household travel energy consumption. Based on quantitative and qualitative analyses, the results show that travel energy consumption in more auto-oriented neighborhoods is much higher than small block, more diverse, and higher connected neighborhoods. Similarly, people in those auto-oriented neighborhoods are more unlikely to use transit compared to drive.
Issues and Opportunities in Exotic Hadrons
Creators: name: Briceno, R. A.
name: Cohen, T. D.
name: Coito, S.
name: Dudek, J. J.
name: Eichten, E.
name: Fischer, C. S.
name: Fritsch, M.
name: Gradl, W.
name: Jackura, A.
name: Kornicer, M.
name: Krein, G.
name: Lebed, R. F.
name: Machado, F. A.
name: Mitchell, R. E.
name: Morningstar, C. J.
name: Peardon, M.
name: Pennington, M. R.
name: Peters, K.
name: Richard, J. -M.
name: Shen, C. -P.
name: Shepherd, M. R.
name: Skwarnicki, T.
name: Swanson, E. S.
name: Szczepaniak, A. P.
name: Yuan, C. -Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The last few years have been witness to a proliferation of new results concerning heavy exotic hadrons. Experimentally, many new signals have been discovered that could be pointing towards the existence of tetraquarks, pentaquarks, and other exotic configurations of quarks and gluons. Theoretically, advances in lattice field theory techniques place us at the cusp of understanding complex coupled-channel phenomena, modelling grows more sophisticated, and effective field theories are being applied to an ever greater range of situations. It is thus an opportune time to evaluate the status of the field. In the following, a series of high priority experimental and theoretical issues concerning heavy exotic hadrons is presented.
description: White paper from INT workshop, "Modern Exotic Hadrons". References added. Version to appear in Chinese Physics C
Zur Wechselwirkung zwischen Fahrbahntextur und Laufstreifenmischung von Pkw-Reifen
Creators: name: Riehm, Patrick
Publisher: name: KIT Scientific Publishing
Year: 2023
Subjects: PKW-Reifen
Laufstreifenmischung
Fahrbahntextur
Kraftübertragung
Passenger Car
Tire Tread Compound
Road Surface Texture
Traction

description: Im Rahmen dieser Arbeit soll eine Erklärung zu den auftretenden Wechselwirkungen zwischen Laufstreifenmischung und Fahrbahntextur bei trockenen sowie nassen Fahrbahnbedingungen entwickelt werden. Wird an einem Reifenprüfstand beispielsweise eine in der Reifenindustrie sehr verbreitete Korund-Oberfläche eingesetzt, führt dies im Vergleich zu Ergebnissen auf einer realen Fahrbahnoberfläche bei Nässe zu Rangordnungsumkehrungen der untersuchten Laufstreifenmischungen.
title: An Evaluation into the Use of Oral Contrast Media for Abdominopelvic CT
Creators: name: Buttigieg, Erica
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Contrast agent-oral
subject: CT
subject: Contrast agents
subject: Outcomes

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Introduction: Continuous developments in Computed Tomography (CT) technology have led to a paradigm shift in the diagnostic approach to abdominal imaging, especially when imaging the vascular system and solid organs [1]. The advent of multidetector...
Children's time use study
Creators: name: Doebel, Sabine
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: How children spend their time is related to cognitive development in complex ways. At present, due to the COVID-19 crisis that has spread around the world, many children are spending their time at home. This presents a unique opportunity to describe how young children are spending their time and how this relates to other variables. This study will: 1) describe how children are spending their time and how this varies by cultural, family, and child characteristics; and 2) test three confirmatory hypotheses about how children’s time use may relate to executive function skills. The hypotheses are: 1) More time spent using passive visual media (TV, YouTube, video games) will be negatively associated with executive function task performance; 2) More time spent in structured lessons will be positively associated with executive function task performance; 3) More time spent in less-structured activities (excluding passive visual media and primarily physical activities) will be positively associated with executive function task performance. Coding of activity structure can be found here: https://osf.io/v27w4/
Not on My Street: Evaluating Equity in the Application Process for Traffic Calming in San Francisco
Creators: name: Seeskin, Nathaniel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: The purpose of this paper is to determine if the application process for traffic calming in San Francisco is equitable. Housed under the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency (SFMTA), the Residential Traffic Calming Program processes petition applications from neighborhoods on an annual basis. Considering the history of traffic calming along with different interpretations of equity, along with the specific context of the Residential Traffic Calming Program, this study evaluates equity through examining the distribution of traffic calming applications submitted over a period of three fiscal years. Pairing the geography of the petition applications with the demographic data of their respective census tracts, this study concludes that privileged communities are more likely to request traffic calming than disadvantaged communities. This finding carries considerable implications for equity in San Francisco’s residential traffic calming process. While the program praises itself for being initiated by residents, disparities in the participation of residents can prevent it from being socially equitable. Coupled with these findings, this paper also suggests further avenues for research.
title: Pulmonary quantitative measurements of multi-detector computed tomography (MDCT) in low-dose setting with iterative reconstruction (IR): a chest phantom study
Creators: name: Kawanami, Satoshi
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Lung
subject: Thorax
subject: Computer applications
subject: CT
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: CT-High Resolution
subject: Computer Applications-General
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Image verification
subject: Quality assurance

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Purpose: To evaluate the reliability of pulmonary quantitative measurements of multi-detector row computed tomography (MDCT) in low-dose settings with iterative reconstruction (IR). Key Points: ・ The TLC is a reliable parameter even in low-dose...
Design and analysis of a thick Miura-ori folded structure with large negative Poisson’s ratio
Creators: name: Moradweysi, P.
name: Santucci, P.M.
name: Carta, G.
name: Goudarzi, T.
name: Aghdam, M.M.
name: Baldi, A.
name: Brun, M.
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Plant Biology

description: In this article, effective properties of Miura-ori patterned sheets are studied. The thickness of the facets is allowed to have considerably large values; hence, the structural response of the system cannot be determined by considering only the kinematics of the folding. In particular, large negative values of the Poisson’s ratio have been observed for particular sets of parameters. Numerical outcomes, for periodic and finite systems, have been validated by an experimental campaign, where several specimens with different geometries and materials have been tested. The elastic fields of the specimens have been measured with the digital image correlation method.