cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Domestication of English in Africa via proverbial expressions: A lexico-semantic study of transliteration in the English of Akɔɔse native speakers in Cameroon
Creators: name: Epoge, Napoleon
Publisher: name: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
Year: 2015

description: In most countries where English functions as a second language, it is enriched by a variety of cultural and linguistic colouration. This is the case of Cameroon wherein remnants of the languages surrounding the acquisition of the English language are recurrent in the English that is spoken and written. This paper, therefore, explores the English of native speakers of Akɔɔse (an indigenous language spoken by a people known as Bakossi[1]) for proverbial expressions that denote their cultural and sociolinguistic world view. Findings reveal that this group of people provide local values, ethics, ideas, and traditions into the English language, in the process of imparting a moral lesson, expressing some truth ascertained by experience and observation, and giving a piece of advice or a warning on issues of life. As such, this paper argues that Akɔɔse native speakers transpose the Akɔɔse proverbs into the English language in order to make the language a chest with treasure which expresses their sociolinguistic world view. [1] Akɔɔsә is a coastal Bantu language (with the code 652) of the Mbo Cluster Group (Gutherie, 1967) spoken by a people known as Bakossi. This people are located in the Kupe-Muanenguba Division of the South West Region of the Republic of Cameroon..
description: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, Vol 2 (2015)
Gruppe Smart (Fabia Högden)
Creators: name: Schwab, Sandra
name: Stahl, Christoph
name: Lanzerath, Leon
name: Engel, Sarah
name: Jung, Mia
name: Kräckel, Pia
name: Billasch, Christina
name: Fenu, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education

description: Untersuchung des Einstellungserwerbs durch Attributkonditionierung bei abhängigen Attributen
Revamping of a diagnostic neutral beam injector for a reversed field pinch experiment
Creators: name: BARBISAN, MARCO
name: Boldrin, Marco
name: Luca, Cinnirella
name: Fasolo, Daniele
name: Laterza, Bruno
name: Maistrello, Alberto
name: Marrelli, Lionello
name: Molon, Federico
name: Peruzzo, Simone
name: TALIERCIO, CESARE
name: Valisa, Marco
name: Zampiva, Enrico
name: Zaniol, Barbara
name: Zerbetto, Enrico
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: neutral beam injector
CXRS
MSE
RFX-mod2
PNRR
NEFERTARI

description: Presentation and the "110° Congresso Nazionale SIF" (https://2024.congresso.sif.it/talk/247)

This work has been funded by the European Union – NextGenerationEU. Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Commission. Neither the European Union nor the European Commission can be held responsible for them.
Maternal and Infant Feeding Practices and Subsequent Food Allergy Development in the Child: A Comprehensive Review of Recent Literature
Creators: name: Matusinski, Michelle
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Food allergy prevalence has been rising in recent years and it is estimated that 5-10% of children have been afflicted with a food allergy or food sensitization worldwide. Food allergy prevalence is highest among infants and young children and symptoms are most apparent during this period of life. Emerging research and rising food allergy prevalence resulted in updates to certain food allergen recommendations. This comprehensive literature review aims to explore the role that maternal and infant feeding practices play in food allergy development in children. The PubMed and ScienceDirect databases were used to identify studies focusing on maternal diet and dietary patterns, breastfeeding, breast milk composition, timing of allergen introduction, and allergenic food diversity. Though many studies on food allergens have been conducted in recent years, the strongest available evidence pertains to peanut and egg allergies, due to the use of randomized controlled trials (RCTs). Future research should explore other common allergens and feeding practices, in hopes of discovering protective windows of exposure.
Inhomogeneous Thermal Quenches
Creators: name: Sohrabi, Kiyoumars A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe holographic thermal quenches that are inhomogeneous in space. The main characteristic of the quench is to take the system far from its equilibrium configuration. Except special extreme cases, the problem has no analytic solution. Using the numerical holography methods, we study different observables that measure thermalization such as the time evolution of the apparent horizon, two-point Wightman function and entanglement entropy (EE). Having an extra nontrivial spacial direction, allows us to study this peculiar generalization since we categorize the problem based on whether we do the measurements along this special direction or perpendicular to it. Exciting new features appear that are absent in the common computations in the literature; the appearance of negative EE valleys surrounding the positive EE hills and abrupt quenches that occupy the whole space at their universal limit are some of the results of this paper. Physical explanation is given and connections to the Cardy's idea of thermalization are discussed.
description: Accepted for publication in PRD
Evaluation Plan for the UCLA - Duke National Center for Child Traumatic Stress' Trauma-Informed Organizational Assessment
Creators: name: Shumaker, Kathleen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: The National Center for Child Traumatic Stress is the managing body of the National Child Traumatic Stress Network, a 100 site network of agencies dedicated to improving care and access to care for children and families. The Network arose from an understanding of the widespread experience and deleterious effects of exposure to or experience of childhood trauma. As the understanding of childhood trauma has grown, so have the number and type of agencies dedicated to helping those affected. However, there is a broad discussion about what practices are inherent in a "trauma-informed agency." The National Center's Service Systems team has developed a Trauma-Informed Organizational Assessment that measures practices across nine domains. The TIOA is meant to be used as the starting point for a larger quality improvement process. Therefore, the process evaluation for the TIOA will include key informant interviews, focus groups, monitoring support documents and will begin in August 2019 and conclude in June or July of 2020.
Address to young men on the right use of Greek literature by Saint Basil: A corpus stylistic approach
Creators: name: Alexandropoulos, Georgios
Publisher: name: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication
Year: 2015

description: The purpose of this study is to examine the text Address to young men on the right use of Greek literature by Saint Basil using corpus stylistics. In this interdisciplinary study rhetorical analysis is combined with linguistic theories and corpus-linguistic tools. Via application of this methodological framework, we can extract secure and meaningful results as regards the style and the ideological intentionality of Saint Basil in this text.
description: Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, Vol 2 (2015)
Simple length rigidity for Kleinian surface groups and applications
Creators: name: Bridgeman, Martin
name: Canary, Richard D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We prove that a Kleinian surface groups is determined, up to conjugacy in the isometry group of $\mathbb H^3$, by its simple marked length spectrum. As a first application, we show that a discrete faithful representation of the fundamental group of a compact, acylindrical, hyperbolizable 3-manifold $M$ is similarly determined by the translation lengths of images of elements of $π_1(M)$ represented by simple curves on the boundary of $M$. As a second application, we show the group of diffeomorphisms of quasifuchsian space which preserve the renormalized intersection number is generated by the (extended) mapping class group and complex conjugation.
Gedächtnis und Emotion. Die Rolle von Emotionen im barocken Totengedenken. Eine exemplarische Erörterung dreier Texte im Rahmen des Begräbnisses der Berlinerin Magdalena Philippina Christan im Jahr 1687.
Creators: name: Skrippek, Clara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Epitaph
Leichenpredigt
Epicedien
Emotion
Frühe Neuzeit
Barock
Totengedenken

description: Das Poster bearbeitet die Frage, welche Funktion die Darstellung von Emotionen im barocken Totengedenken spielt.
description: Posterpräsentation der X-Student Research Group "Berliner Inschriften als Quelle für die historische Registerforschung" (Gohar Schnelle, Dina Serova, finanziert durch die Berlin University Alliance) am 03.04.2023.
A Constrained-Gradient Method to Control Divergence Errors in Numerical MHD
Creators: name: Hopkins, Philip F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In numerical magnetohydrodynamics (MHD), a major challenge is maintaining zero magnetic field-divergence (div-B). Constrained transport (CT) schemes can achieve this at high accuracy, but have generally been restricted to very specific methods. For more general (meshless, moving-mesh, or ALE) methods, 'divergence-cleaning' schemes reduce the div-B errors, however they can still be significant, especially at discontinuities, and can lead to systematic deviations from correct solutions which converge away very slowly. Here we propose a new constrained gradient (CG) scheme which augments these with a hybrid projection step, and can be applied to any numerical scheme with a reconstruction. This iteratively approximates the least-squares minimizing, globally divergence-free reconstruction of the fluid. We emphasize that, unlike 'locally divergence free' methods, this actually minimizes the numerically unstable div-B terms, without affecting the convergence order of the method. We implement this in the mesh-free code GIZMO and compare a wide range of test problems. Compared to state-of-the-art cleaning schemes, our CG method reduces the maximum div-B errors in each problem by 1-3 orders of magnitude (2-5 dex below the typical errors if no div-B cleaning is used). By preventing large div-B even at unresolved discontinuities, the method eliminates systematic errors at jumps. In every problem, the accuracy of our CG results is comparable to CT methods. The cost is modest, ~30% of the hydro algorithm, and the CG correction can be easily implemented in a wide range of different numerical MHD methods. While for many problems, we find Dedner-type cleaning schemes are sufficient for good results, we identify a wide range of problems where using only the simplest Powell or '8-wave' cleaning can produce systematic, order-of-magnitude errors.
description: 12 pages, 8 figures. MNRAS (updated to published version). A public version of the GIZMO code, user's guide, test problem setups, and movies are available at http://www.tapir.caltech.edu/~phopkins/Site/GIZMO.html
MPEC 2024-R110 : DAILY ORBIT UPDATE (2024 September 6)
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469

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.
Estimates of the Kobayashi and quasi-hyperbolic distances
Creators: name: Nikolov, Nikolai
name: Andreev, Lyubomir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 32F45, 51M10

description: Universal upper bounds for the Kobayashi and quasi-hyperbolic distances near Dini-smooth boundary points of domains in $\C^n$ and $\R^n,$ respectively, are obtained.
A Narrative Overview Introducing Brexanolone as a Promising New Treatment Option for Postpartum Depression
Creators: name: Izlar, Gillian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Postpartum depression (PPD) is a serious and common public health issue that often goes undiagnosed and untreated. The treatment options for PPD, including antidepressants, are the same interventions used to treat major depressive disorder outside of the peripartum period; thus, they are not targeted to PPD. Novel studies of the pathophysiology of PPD implicate the role of neuroactive steroids in the regulation of Gamma-Aminobutyric Acid (GABA) A receptors. This new evidence led to the recent clinical trials which evaluate the efficacy of Brexanolone, a synthetic neuroactive steroid, for the treatment of PPD. Brexanolone is an intravenous synthetic version of allopregnanolone, which is a positive modulator of the GABA A receptor. The drug, which is administered as a continuous infusion over a period of 60 hours, was recently tested in both open-label and placebo- controlled randomized clinical trials. The results of these trials reveal an overall rapid diminishment of depressive symptoms in those with moderate to severe PPD. This impressive positive response to Brexanolone led to the US Food and Drug Administration approval of the drug in March of 2019. Brexanolone is the first targeted pharmacotherapy for this condition and marks an important turning-point for future research in the pathophysiology and treatment of PPD.
Observational Exclusion of a Consistent Quantum Cosmology Scenario
Creators: name: Bolliet, Boris
name: Barrau, Aurelien
name: Grain, Julien
name: Schander, Susanne
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is often argued that inflation erases all the information about what took place before it started. Quantum gravity, relevant in the Planck era, seems therefore mostly impossible to probe with cosmological observations. In general, only very ad hoc scenarios or hyper fine-tuned initial conditions can lead to observationally testable theories. Here we consider a well-defined and well motivated candidate quantum cosmology model that predicts inflation. Using the most recent observational constraints on the cosmic microwave background B modes, we show that the model is excluded for all its parameter space, without any tuning. Some important consequences are drawn for the deformed algebra approach to loop quantum cosmology. We emphasize that neither loop quantum cosmology in general nor loop quantum gravity are disfavored by this study but their falsifiability is established.
description: 5 pages, 2 figure
A century of oil and gas exploration in Albania: assessment of Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORMs)
Creators: name: Xhixha, Gerti
name: Baldoncini, Marica
name: Callegari, Ivan
name: Colonna, Tommaso
name: Hasani, Fadil
name: Mantovani, Fabio
name: Shala, Ferat
name: Strati, Virginia
name: Kaçeli, Merita Xhixha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Because potential Naturally Occurring Radioactive Materials (NORMs) generated from oil and gas extractions in Albania have been disposed without regulatory criteria in many decades, an extensive survey in one of the most productive regions (Vlora-Elbasan) has been performed. Among 52 gamma-ray spectrometry measurements of soil, oil-sand, sludge, produced water and crude oil samples, we discover that relatively low activity concentrations of 226Ra, 228Ra, 228Th and 40K, which are 23 +/- 2 Bq/kg, 23 +/- 2 Bq/kg, 24 +/- 3 Bq/kg and 549 +/- 12 Bq/kg, respectively, come from oil-sand produced by hydrocarbon extraction from molasses formations. The mineralogical characterization together with the 228Ra/40K and 226Ra/40K ratios of these Neogene deposits confirm the geological and geodynamic model that predicts a dismantling of Mesozoic source rocks. The average activity concentrations (+/- standard deviations) of the radium isotopes (226Ra, 228Ra) and of the 228Th and 40K radionuclides in soil samples are determined to be 20 +/- 5 Bq/kg, 25 +/- 10 Bq/kg, 25 +/- 9 Bq/kg and 326 +/- 83 Bq/kg, respectively. Based on these arguments, the future radiological assessment of other fields in the region can be strategically planned focusing on the oil-sands from molasses sediments. No disequilibrium in the 228Ra decay segment has been observed in soil, sludge and oil-sand samples within the standard uncertainties. After a detailed radiological characterization of the four main oilfields, we can conclude that the outdoor absorbed dose rate never exceeds the worldwide population weighted average absorbed dose rate in outdoor air from terrestrial gamma radiation.
description: 21 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, Chemosphere 2015
Dirac Spin-Orbit Torques at the Surface of Topological Insulators
Creators: name: Ndiaye, P. B.
name: Akosa, C. A.
name: Fischer, M. H.
name: Vaezi, A.
name: Kim, E-A.
name: Manchon, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We address the nature of spin-orbit torques at the magnetic surfaces of topological insulators, using both Kubo formula and Keldysh formalism. Through the analysis of the derived spin-charge equations, we find that the so-called Dirac torques possess a different symmetry compared to their Rashba counterpart, as well as a high anisotropy as a function of the magnetization direction. In particular, the damping torque vanishes when the magnetization lies in the plane of the topological insulator surface. This peculiarity has important consequences in terms of magnetization dynamics and switching, as demonstrated numerically via a macrospin model.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Infant and Young Child Feeding Practices in the Context of Natural Disasters: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Crew, Carter
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: The Operational Guidance on Infant Young Child Feeding in Emergencies (IYCF-E) includes evidence-based recommendations for all emergency settings. A systematic review on infant feeding in the context of disasters was conducted to identify challenges unique to disasters and areas for future research. I searched Pubmed and Web of Science in May 2019 using the terms “breastfeeding” and “natural disasters”. Seven articles met eligibility criteria. Common themes identified across studies include low adherence to recommended IYCF practices, stress among mothers’, and vulnerability of IYCF to diarrhea and malnutrition. Further research is needed to better understand breastfeeding rates before and after a disaster event, the impact of caregiver stress on feeding practices, barriers to implementing global ICYF-E guidelines, and complementary feeding practices.
A systematic review of the evidence that supports gender transformative interventions that address violence against women
Creators: name: Yovania Dechtiar
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Violence against women (VAW) is the most widespread form of abuse worldwide with on average a third of all women globally affected in their lifetime. VAW affects the physical and mental health of women, is a violation of their human rights and has an economic impact on society. Harmful gender norms have been identified as one of the drivers of VAW. The aim of this systematic review is to identify effective approaches that address gender norms that are associated with VAW. The interventions identified in this review highlight the global focus on addressing violence perpetrated by men against women in the context of heteronormative relationships.
Engaging in the Human Rights Treaty Body System: Maternal and Child Health Advocacy for Global Abortion Access, Lesson and Instructor's Guide
Creators: name: Simmons, Nora
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: A lesson module including an Instructor's Guide and Slide Deck presented to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Public Health in the Department of Maternal and Child Health. The purpose of this lesson module is to present the Human Rights Treaty Body monitoring system as an avenue for Maternal and Child Health advocacy, with a specific focus on expanding abortion access in global contexts. This lesson is intended for an audience of first-year graduate-level learners within the Maternal and Child Health (MCH) concentration, and specifically, to be presented within the Foundations I of MCH curriculum. The along with pertinent details related to facilitating this lesson, the Instructor's Guide contains a  background report which justifies the inclusion of this content within the Foundations I coursework and provides literature to support the information and skills presented in the lesson. At the end of this lesson module participants will be able to complete the following objectives: Identify the connections between international human rights law and public health, Explain how the human rights treaty monitoring process works and how it has been utilized to advocate for expanded abortion access, Demonstrate knowledge of Civil Society and how to engage in the treaty monitoring process by reflecting on a sample Shadow Letter, Describe how to research the topic of abortion within treaty cycles by utilizing the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights website database.
Intention of medical student to work in rural setting and associated factors among the public Universities undergraduate medical students of Ethiopia
Creators: name: Wondimu Ayele
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018

description: Background: Health workforce demand and supply increased last two decade. In Ethiopia, about 84% of the country"s total populations live in rural areas. However, shortages and imbalances in physician workforce distribution between urban and rural areas among different regions are enormous. A little was known about medical students" intention to work in the rural area after completing medical school. This study was done to assess the intention of undergraduate medical students towards rural work settings and to identify factors associated with intention to work in the rural areas. Methods: A cross-sectional study was employed in January to April 2018 among 342 (254 male Vs 88 female) medical students (year IV to Year V) in three public medical schools in Ethiopia. Stratified random sampling technique was used. The pretested self-administered questionnaires were used. Data was entered into EPI-data version 3.1 and exported to Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) version 24 for analysis. A bivariate and multivariate analysis of logistic regression was used to identify associated factors with 95% of confidence interval.
Native Pb vacancy defects induced p-type characteristic in epitaxial monolayer PbSe
Creators: name: Tian, Qiwei
name: Li, Ping
name: Zhang, Li
name: Tian, Yuan
name: Yin, Long-Jing
name: Zhang, Lijie
name: Qin, Zhihui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: PbSe, a predicted two-dimensional (2D) topological crystalline insulator (TCI) in the monolayer limit, possess excellent thermoelectric and infrared optical properties. Native defects in PbSe take a crucial role for the applications. However, little attention has been paid to the defect induced doping characteristics. Here, we provide an experimental and theoretical investigation of defects induced p-type characteristic on epitaxial monolayer PbSe on Au(111). Scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) measurements demonstrate an epitaxial PbSe monolayer with a fourfold symmetric lattice. Combined scanning tunneling spectroscopy (STS) and density functional theory (DFT) calculations reveal a quasi-particle bandgap of 0.8eV of PbSe. STM results unveil that there are two types of defects on the surface, one is related the vacancies of Pb atoms and the other is the replacement of the absent Se atoms by Pb. Corresponding theoretical optimization confirms the structures of the defects. More importantly, both STS measurements and DFT calculations give evidence that the Pb vacancies move the Fermi energy inside the valence band and produce extra holes, leading to p-type characteristics of PbSe. Our work provides effective information for the future research of device performance based on PbSe films.
A Rigorous Theory of Many-Body Prethermalization for Periodically Driven and Closed Quantum Systems
Creators: name: Abanin, Dmitry
name: De Roeck, Wojciech
name: Ho, Wen Wei
name: Huveneers, Francois
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Prethermalization refers to the transient phenomenon where a system thermalizes according to a Hamiltonian that is not the generator of its evolution. We provide here a rigorous framework for quantum spin systems where prethermalization is exhibited for very long times. First, we consider quantum spin systems under periodic driving at high frequency $ν$. We prove that up to a quasi-exponential time $τ_* \sim e^{c \fracν{\log^3 ν}}$, the system barely absorbs energy. Instead, there is an effective local Hamiltonian $\hat D$ that governs the time evolution up to $τ_*$, and hence this effective Hamiltonian is a conserved quantity up to $τ_*$. Next, we consider systems without driving, but with a separation of energy scales in the Hamiltonian. A prime example is the Fermi-Hubbard model where the interaction $U$ is much larger than the hopping $J$. Also here we prove the emergence of an effective conserved quantity, different from the Hamiltonian, up to a time $τ_*$ that is (almost) exponential in $U/J$.
description: 21 pages, file updated to match published version
Resting State Functional Connectivity in Opiate Users: Associations with Negative Urgency
Creators: name: Woisard, Kyle
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Psychiatry
subject: Addiction
subject: Functional Connectivity
subject: Opiates
subject: Resting State fMRI

description: This project will assess resting state fMRI functional connectivity differences between opiate users and healthy controls as well as their associations with UPPS measured negative urgency scores.
The Association of Parental Usual Source of Care and Child Health Care Utilization, Health Care Quality, and Functional Impairment Among Children with a Usual Source of Care
Creators: name: Gomez, Amanda
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Objective.
This Masters Paper sought to describe the demographic characteristics of United States children who have a usual source of care and examine child health care utilization, health care quality, and functional impairment by parental usual source of care status. 

Methods. 
Data were compiled from the 2016 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component. Analyses were restricted to a complete case sample of 7,388 children who reported having a usual source of care. All data editing and analysis was done using Stata statistical software. The independent variable of interest was a constructed parental usual source of care variable. The dependent variables of interest included sociodemographic items from the general survey, child health utilization and quality items from the Clinician and Group Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems questionnaire, and functional impairment items from the Columbia Impairment Scale. I utilized univariate and bivariate descriptive statistics along with Chi-square tests of significance to examine the relationships between parental usual source of care status and child health care utilization, health care quality, and functional impairment.

Results. 
Among children with a usual source of care, there were significant differences in child sociodemographic characteristics and health care utilization by parental usual source of care status. Children whose parents did not have a usual source of care were significantly more likely to be younger in age (0-4 years old vs. 5-17 years old), Hispanic, poor (less than 100 percent of the federal poverty limit), and publicly insured compared to children whose parents had a usual source of care. Additionally, children whose parents did not have a usual source of care were significantly less likely to report that their child in the last 12 months: had an illness, injury, or condition that needed care right away, had routine care, had a doctor or parent who believed they needed care, tests or treatment, and had needed to see a specialist compared to children whose parents had a usual source of care. There were no significant differences in reported health care quality and functional impairment by parental usual source of care status.

Conclusions.
Health professionals, social service providers, and policymakers who wish to improve United States children’s health should consider the impact of parental usual source of care status on child health care utilization. Future research should seek to identify the potential mechanisms between parental usual source of care status and child receipt of health services.
A Study of the Effect of a Brief School-Based Intervention on Stress and Self-Harming Behaviors Among Mexican Youth
Creators: name: Byrum, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and suicide among Mexican adolescents is a growing concern of communities in rural Mexico. Many external social factors have been found to contribute to increased stress and negative stress-relieving behaviors. This brief school-based intervention curriculum used a combination of cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) techniques aimed at reducing stress and behaviors such as cutting, alcohol, and drug use. Results from this pilot study (n = 79) show that the intervention did not significantly decrease students’ negative stress-relieving behaviors nor decrease their level of perceived stress, as measured by the Stress in Children (SiC) scale. 
Other findings provide a better understanding of the prevalence of NSSI, suicidal ideation, and substance use among youth in rural Mexico. Recommendations are made for interventions that address these issues across the social ecological framework.
Carolina TreeCycle
Creators: name: Everhart, Michael
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: UNC Chapel Hill has many significant, specimen, and rare trees, which are distinguished by their age, size and provenance on campus. However, trees die or fall at unpredictable times, or may otherwise be
removed, at which point the trees are typically reduced to mulch. Carolina TreeCycle establishes a formalized and sustainable process for harvesting lumber from dead or removed campus trees, maximizing and retaining their value as campus assets.
Caregiving of Older Adults and Caregiver’s Health Outcomes
Creators: name: Nichols, Makayla
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Informal caregiving is prominent in American society. As the Baby Boomer Generation ages, there will be more older adults who need assistance with activities of daily living. Informal caregivers are crucial to the long-term care system in the United States so understanding how caregiving impacts health is important. This paper is a systematic review of health outcomes for caregivers of older adults.
How Do Laypeople Define Empathy?
Creators: name: Duong, Fred
name: Hall, Judith
name: Schwartz, Rachel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Organization Development
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: empathy

description: Data and materials for "How Do Laypeople Define Empathy?", currently being published in The Journal of Social Psychology (link forthcoming).
Fragile magnetic order in the honeycomb lattice Iridate Na$_{2}$IrO$_3$ revealed by magnetic impurity doping
Creators: name: Mehlawat, Kavita
name: Singh, Yogesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the structure, magnetic, and thermal property measurements on single crystalline and polycrystalline samples of Ru substituted honeycomb lattice iridate Na$_2$Ir$_x$Ru$_{1-x}$O$_3$ (x = 0, 0.05, 0.1, 0.15, 0.2, 0.3, 0.5). The evolution of magnetism in Na$_2$Ir$_x$Ru$_{1-x}$O$_3$ has been studied using dc and ac magnetic susceptibility, and heat capacity measurements. The parent compound Na$_2$IrO$_3$ is a spin-orbit driven Mott insulator with magnetic order of reduced moments below $T_N = 15$~K\@. In the Ru substituted samples the antiferromagnetic long range state is replaced by a spin glass like state even for the smallest substitution suggesting that the magnetic order in Na$_2$IrO$_3$ is extremely fragile. We argue that these behaviors indicate the importance of nearest-neighbor magnetic exchange in the parent Na$_2$IrO$_3$. Additionally, all samples show insulating electrical transport.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures, 3 tables
París no es una fiesta
Creators: name: Guzmán Hennessey, Manuel
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2023

description: Había pensado el título de esta columna para referirme a las pocas esperanzas que se tienen sobre la Cumbre del Clima, cuyos resultados, al momento de publicarse esta nota, no alcanzarán para renovarla esperanza de las próximas generaciones en la viabilidad del mundo. Pero resulta que escribo el sábado 14 de un noviembre, que ha quedado signado para siempre en la historia de la barbarie humana por la tragedia de París. Qué fiesta puede haber, me digo, si han muerto ciudadanos inocentes y ajenos a toda confrontación, gentes alegres que habían ido a cantar, a cenar o a disfrutar de una noche de viernes con amigos. ¡Qué trágico destino nos espera si hemos perdido toda libertad! La hermosura de una ciudad, la celebración de la amistad y el disfrute a cielo abierto de la vida se han vuelto actividades peligrosas. El viernes 13 de noviembre no se les olvidará jamás a los parisinos. Tampoco a los hombres y mujeres del mundo que aman la vida y la libertad. Escribir esta frase me sobresalta: ¿serán todos los seres humanos del mundo de hoy amantes por igual de la vida y la libertad? Me temo que no, y que, de aquí en adelante, este sino luctuoso de París nos perseguirá como una sombra urbana.
A Systematic Review of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) In U.S. Veteran’s Returning From Afghanistan and Iraq To Investigate Opportunities For Improving Social Support To Reduce PTSD Symptoms In Student Veterans Attending Postsecondary Institutions
Creators: name: Waters, Joel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: America is facing a significant public health issue related to the mental health needs of military veterans returning from conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan.  While serving in the military, troops encounter service-related trauma resulting in a variety of mental health related issues such as anxiety, depression, posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). A review of articles indicates that combat trauma leads to service-related PTSD and PTSD is associated with anxiety, depression, alcohol misuse, self-harm, suicide ideation, and suicide.  However, community support is useful in reducing the PTSD burden on these new veterans.  Since the government provides education support to Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) and Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) veterans, hundreds of thousands of veterans availing themselves of these GI education benefits by enrolling in colleges and universities.  As such, these postsecondary institutions provide a means to providing social support to student veterans with PTSD but the research also shows that many of these institutions are not equipped to handle the special needs of the OEF/OIF veterans with PTSD. Further research is recommended to confirm the validity and practicality of developing or improving Veteran Student Centers at colleges and universities to help veterans with PTSD transition back into civilian society.  If so, then these programs may not only improve the educational attainment goals of these veterans but may also reduce the various PTSD comorbidities.
Baseline Assessment to Evaluate Attitudes, Norms, Knowledge, and Behaviors around Violence Against Women and Girls and Evidence-based Practices for the Curricula of a Faith-based Youth Organization
Creators: name: Davidson, Rachel Gayle
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Background: Violence against women and girls (VAWG) is a significant public health issue globally and in urban informal settlement communities, such as those in Nairobi, Kenya. A Nairobi faith-based organization, Ambassadors Football Kenya (AFK), recognizes this issue as one with significant, adverse impact in the communities where it serves and endeavors to implement activities to disrupt this cycle of violence, improving health outcomes of women.
Methods: A literature review was conducted to identify an evidence-based, community-led intervention program with documented results in preventing VAWG and a model leveraging activities already performed by AFK. The SASA! Faith community mobilization intervention, a four-phased program, fits these criteria. AFK began implementation of SASA! Faith’s first phase, the START phase, during August 2019 by engaging a volunteer with previous experience working in the field of VAWG prevention. A baseline assessment was conducted using qualitative and quantitative exercises in the form of Assessment Dialogues and Rapid Assessment Surveys, respectively, to measure the starting point of community knowledge, attitudes, behaviors, and norms around VAWG.
Results: The baseline assessment indicated that VAWG is, indeed, a significant issue in the communities served by AFK. Men and women who participated have varying views on the power imbalance between them but agree that VAWG is a problem that needs to be addressed to improve safety and health in their communities.
Conclusion: AFK should continue to pursue implementation of SASA! Faith, engaging partners to aid in these activities and augment visibility in the community.
A novel strategy to control defects and secondary phases of CZTS by surfactant Potassium
Creators: name: Zhang, Yiou
name: Tse, Kinfai
name: Xiao, Xudong
name: Zhu, Junyi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Cu2ZnSnS4 (CZTS) is a promising photovoltaic absorber material with earth abundant and nontoxic elements. However, the detrimental native defects and secondary phases of CSTS will largely reduce the energy conversion efficiencies. To understand the origin of these problems during the growth of CZTS, we investigated the kinetic processes on CZTS (-1-1-2) surface, using first principles calculations. A surface Zn atom was found to occupy the subsurface Cu site easily due to a low reaction barrier, which may lead to a high ZnCu concentration and a secondary phase of ZnS. These n-type defects may create deep electron traps near the interface and become detrimental to device performance. To reduce the population of ZnCu and the secondary phase, we propose to use K as a surfactant to alter surface kinetic processes. Improvements on crystal quality and device performance based on this surfactant are consistent with early experimental observations.
Learners and Luddites in the Twenty-first Century: Bringing Evidence-based Education to Anesthesiology
Creators: name: Isaak, Robert S
name: Chen, Fei
name: Martinelli, Susan M
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Anesthesiologists are both teachers and learners and alternate between these roles throughout their careers. However, few anesthesiologists have formal training in the methodologies and theories of education. Many anesthesiology educators often teach as they were taught and may not be taking advantage of current evidence in education to guide and optimize the way they teach and learn. This review describes the most up-to-date evidence in education for teaching knowledge, procedural skills, and professionalism. Methods such as active learning, spaced learning, interleaving, retrieval practice, e-learning, experiential learning, and the use of cognitive aids will be described. We made an effort to illustrate the best available evidence supporting educational practices while recognizing the inherent challenges in medical education research. Similar to implementing evidence in clinical practice in an attempt to improve patient outcomes, implementing an evidence-based approach to anesthesiology education may improve learning outcomes.
(ANESTHESIOLOGY 2019; 131:908–28)
Dual condensates at finite isospin chemical potential
Creators: name: Zhang, Zhao
name: Miao, Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dual observables as order parameters for center symmetry are tested at finite isospin chemical potential $μ_I$ in a Polyakov-loop enhanced chiral model of QCD with physical quark masses. As a counterpart of the dressed Polyakov-loop, the first Fourier moment of pion condensate is introduced for $μ_I>{m_π}/{2}$ under the temporal twisted boundary conditions for quarks. We demonstrate that this dual condensate exhibits the similar temperature dependence as the conventional Polyakov-loop. We confirm that its rapid increase with $T$ is driven by the evaporating of pion condensation. On the other hand, the dressed Polyakov-loop shows abnormal thermal behavior, which even decreases with $T$ at low temperatures due to the influence of pion condensate. We thus argue that in QCD the critical temperature extracting from a dual observable may have nothing to do with the quark confinement-deconfinement transition if the quark mass is very small.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures
The terms of being an artist in the early 21st century : the struggle, endurance and affect of visual and performing artists in the UK
Creators: name: Yang, Yang
Publisher: name: The University of St Andrews
Year: 2022
Subjects: Artists
Affect
Inequality
Endurance
Anthropology of the UK

description: The fact that artists struggle financially and affectively might not surprise many people in the UK, but what is less known is how they put up with those struggles and why they struggle. To explore these issues, this thesis presents an in-depth ethnographic analysis of the struggle, endurance and affect of visual and performing art practitioners in the UK. The ethnographic data are collected through both shadowing ten UK-based visual and performing art practitioners as well as participating in and observing art events during fourteen-months fieldwork between May 2018 and September 2019. This thesis challenges two established explanations of artists’ struggles: struggles are the only thing that people should know about artists; struggles might actually be what artists want, given that art is the thing they want to live for and die for. Instead, I argue that UK-based artists’ struggles can be understood as an integral part of “the ‘terms’ of being an artist in the early 21st century”. That is, these artists model themselves on historical artist figures, the terms of which are freeing themselves from the domination of “Enlightenment-modernity-capitalism” but entailing economic and affective struggles. They sometimes also follow two alternative imperatives (pro-lifestyle and pro-equality), but the more they try to follow two or more contradictory imperatives, the more their efforts come to nothing. By examining themes such as poverty, meritocracy, unconscious bias, relationality and spontaneity, this thesis further contributes to the comparative studies and the interdisciplinary discussions of endurance, affect, inequality, art and human feelings under liberal capitalism.
La prensa en la coyuntura Republicana
Creators: name: Campillo-Pardo, Alberto-Jose
Publisher: name: Universidad del Rosario
Year: 2023

description: Esta editorial pretende mostrar cómo fue la evolución de las publicaciones periódicas en la Nueva Granada, en los primeros años del siglo XIX, cuando las transiciones políticas y sociales producidas por los acontecimientos históricos de la época, convulsionaban el mundo colonial en América. Este problema se abordará desde la perspectiva de tres autores, a saber, Gilberto Loaiza, con su texto Prensa y opinión en los inicios republicanos; María Teresa Ripoll, con el artículo El Argos Americano: crónica de una desilusión; y Adineth Vargas, con la presentación del libro compilatorio titulado La prensa durante la Independencia de Cartagena. Los autores analizan esta coyuntura desde dos perspectivas políticas dentro de la Nueva Granada, las de Santafé y las de Cartagena, debido a que en estas dos ciudades se  dieron los principales desarrollos en materia de prensa y opinión que acabarían por sellar el destino de este reino colonial. Existen varios elementos comunes en los textos, pero también se encuentran ciertas discrepancias en las  experiencias de Santafé y Cartagena, ya que las prácticas de ambas ciudades tenían características particulares.
Stability of variable density rotating flows: Inviscid case and viscous effects in the limit of large Reynolds numbers
Creators: name: Jacques, C.
name: Di Pierro, B.
name: Alizard, F.
name: Buffat, M.
name: Cadiou, A.
name: Penven, L. Le
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Linear stability of solid body rotating flows with axisymmetric density variations is addressed analytically. Considering inviscid disturbances, a non trivial dispersion relation is obtained and it is shown that the instability is of Rayleigh-Taylor type in cylindrical frame. The viscous correction is derived, in the limit of large Reynolds numbers and large azimuthal wave numbers, allowing the determination of the most unstable mode. Theoretical predictions are checked by comparing them to (spectrally accurate) computed eigenvalues and direct numerical simulations.