cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Deserting and Believing in Jesus: The Gospel of John and Jewish Identity
Creators: name: Heginbotham, Brodie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: This thesis began with a perceived need to expand on the scholarship that has recently been countering the longstanding popular and academic claim that the Gospel of John is anti-Semitic or anti-Jewish. For approximately the last century, evidence has continually demonstrated that this, the Fourth Gospel, is more deeply rooted in some kind of Jewish tradition than scholars earlier believed. What has been missing from this scholarly discussion, however, is convincing historical data. The arguments are largely centered around plausibility and comparative literature from Qumran. In this thesis, I primarily utilize the important and emerging method of literary criticism to show that the text of John’s Gospel demonstrates not an ideology that is anti-Jewish, but rather one that seeks to reformulate what it means to have a Jewish identity. Demonstrating this is the project of my first chapter.In the second of this two chapter work, I will show that the character of John the Baptist is intended as a literary device to show the author’s ideal transition of a person’s Jewish identity, as it is reformulated by faith in Jesus. Because the Christian religion was not yet fully formed,  the boundary between Judaism (in its various forms) and the followers of Jesus did not have clear language. This is why the Gospel of John uses the character of John the Baptist to demonstrate how a person of Jewish identity should, in the author’s mind, respond to Jesus.
INGLIZ TILIDA GAPNING KOMMUNIKATIV TIPLARIDAGI INTONATSIYASI
Creators: name: Mexmonova, Yulduzxon
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Ushbu tezis  ingliz tilida gapning kommunikativ tiplaridagi intonatsiyasi mavzusida  qisqacha yoritib borilgan va o‘z ichiga bir nechta misollarni qamrab olgan.
Constraints on deviations from $Λ$CDM within Horndeski gravity
Creators: name: Bellini, Emilio
name: Cuesta, Antonio J.
name: Jimenez, Raul
name: Verde, Licia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent anomalies found in cosmological datasets such as the low multipoles of the Cosmic Microwave Background or the low redshift amplitude and growth of clustering measured by e.g., abundance of galaxy clusters and redshift space distortions in galaxy surveys, have motivated explorations of models beyond standard $Λ$CDM. Of particular interest are models where general relativity (GR) is modified on large cosmological scales. Here we consider deviations from $Λ$CDM+GR within the context of Horndeski gravity, which is the most general theory of gravity with second derivatives in the equations of motion. We adopt a parametrization in which the four additional Horndeski functions of time $α_i(t)$ are proportional to the cosmological density of dark energy $Ω_{DE}(t)$. Constraints on this extended parameter space using a suite of state-of-the art cosmological observations are presented for the first time. Although the theory is able to accommodate the low multipoles of the Cosmic Microwave Background and the low amplitude of fluctuations from redshift space distortions, we find no significant tension with $Λ$CDM+GR when performing a global fit to recent cosmological data and thus there is no evidence against $Λ$CDM+GR from an analysis of the value of the Bayesian evidence ratio of the modified gravity models with respect to $Λ$CDM, despite introducing extra parameters. The posterior distribution of these extra parameters that we derive return strong constraints on any possible deviations from $Λ$CDM+GR in the context of Horndeski gravity. We illustrate how our results can be applied to a more general frameworks of modified gravity models.
description: 22 pages; 4 figures; 9 tables. The constraints have been revised to match the precision required according to the recently released hi_class paper
Investigating the Impacts of a Global Pandemic and George Floyd’s Death on Crime and Other Features of Police Work
Creators: name: White, Michael D.
name: Orosco, Carlena
name: Terpstra, Brice
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Science Policy
subject: Plant Biology

description: The current study involves a two-level examination of the impact of COVID-19 and George Floyd’s death on police work in the Tempe (AZ) Police Department. We employ interrupted time series analysis to test weekly trends (January 2017–January 2021) in crime and officer activity measures. We also examine body-worn camera footage (n = 474) to compare dynamics of police-citizen encounters over time. The impact on crime was mixed and varied by crime type. When declines occurred, they were short-term. The pandemic altered every aspect of police activity, and George Floyd’s death led to separate impacts on a few of those measures. Overall, the pandemic had a larger impact than did George Floyd’s death. Routine activities theory proved to be a useful framework for understanding the findings. Body-worn camera footage highlighted the consistency in how officers handled citizen encounters. The findings underscore the importance of localized context for these events and their effects.
PURCHASING PREFERENCE OF TRICENARIAN EDUCATORS IN AVAILING PRIVATE MEMORIAL LOTS IN KORONADAL CITY”.pdf
Creators: name: Tuburan, Joemima
name: Recto, Francis
name: Soriano, Jason
name: Soriano, Jason
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 460901
subject: Business process management

description: This research aims to determine the most significant factors affecting the purchasing preference of tricenarian educators in Koronadal City when it comes to private memorial lots. The study uses a descriptive-quantitative multivariate correlational approach, with demographic profiles, memorial lot price and budget, type of lot inventory, promotion, company and legalities, location, maintenance, and awareness as independent variables, and purchasing preference as the dependent variable. Primary data was collected from 68 randomly selected tricenarian educators from various educational institutions in Koronadal City. The findings suggest that price and budget, type of lot inventory, and location are the most significant factors affecting the purchasing preference of tricenarian educators. The study provides valuable insights for businesses offering private memorial lots in Koronadal City to better understand the buying behavior of their target market.
Teachers' Perceptions and Use of the North Carolina Kindergarten Entry Assessment (KEA)
Creators: name: Yegelwel, Victoria
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: North Carolina received a Race to The Top- Early Learning Challenge grant that required the creation of a Kindergarten Entry Assessment (KEA). The North Carolina Department of Public Instruction (NCDPI) created a formative KEA that was piloted in a number of select local education agency North Carolina schools in the 2014-2015 school year. In the 2015- 2016 school year the KEA was implemented in all North Carolina kindergarten classrooms. An electronic survey was sent to 381 Kindergarten teachers to learn about their experience with the KEA. Results show that participants had an average to good experience with the assessment, but the majority reported they did not use the data gained from the assessment to inform their instruction which is the purpose of formative assessment. These findings have implications at the state, local education agency and classroom level.
60. Phylogenetisches Symposium Tübingen: Funktionsmorphologie und Bionik
Creators: name: Werneburg, Ingmar
name: Betz, Oliver
Publisher: name: Universität Tübingen
Year: 2018
Subjects: subject: Evolution , Evolutionstheorie , Entwicklung , Funktion , Bionik
subject: 500
subject: 550
subject: 560
subject: 570
subject: 580
subject: 590

description: Tagungsprogramm, Abstracts der Vorträge und Postertitel nebst einer Einführung in die Geschichte der funktionsmorphologischen und bionischen Forschung in der Paläontologie und Biologie in Tübingen
Heritage of American Agriculture: A Bibliography of Pre-1860 Imprints
Creators: name: Fusonie, Alan M.
name: Fusonie, Alan M.
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1975
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Farm Management
Livestock Production/Industries
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy
Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession

description: Excerpts: During the more than 100 years that the National Agricultural Library has been in existence, it has acquired a notable collection of historical, agricultural, scientific, and economic books published during the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. In 1967, Mortimer L. Naftalin, as part of the Library's continuing efforts to inform the users of its holdings, compiled a bibliography of agricultural imprints published in Europe prior to 1800 and in the United States prior to 1830 (i.e., Historic Books and Manuscripts Concerning General Agriculture in the Collection in the National Agricultural Library, Washington, D.C.: U.S. Department of Agriculture Library List No. 86, 94 pp.). The Library, in recognition of the efforts of the American farmer in the Colonies as well as the farmers who succeeded them during the first half of the nineteenth century, has prepared this historical bibliography for use by scholars, students, and other interested individuals. This bibliography is a selective compilation of monographs, periodicals and the works of agricultural societies published prior to 1860. The purpose of this bibliography is to provide a list of printed source materials which to varying degrees contain useful information concerning various aspects of pre-Civil War developments in agriculture and its related fields within the United States.
Fragile structural transition in Mo3Sb7
Creators: name: Yan, J. -Q.
name: McGuire, M. A.
name: May, A. F.
name: Parker, D.
name: Mandrus, D. G.
name: Sales, B. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Mo$_3$Sb$_7$ single crystals lightly doped with Cr, Ru, or Te are studied in order to explore the interplay between superconductivity, magnetism, and the cubic-tetragonal structural transition. The structural transition at 53\,K is extremely sensitive to Ru or Te substitution which introduce additional electrons, but robust against Cr substitution. No sign of a structure transition was observed in superconducting Mo$_{2.91}$Ru$_{0.09}$Sb$_7$ and Mo$_3$Sb$_{6.975}$Te$_{0.025}$. In contrast, 3at\% Cr doping only slightly suppresses the structural transition to 48\,K while leaving no trace of superconductivity above 1.8\,K. Analysis of magnetic properties suggests that the interdimer interaction in Mo$_3$Sb$_7$ is near a critical value and essential for the structural transition. All dopants suppress the superconductivity of Mo$_3$Sb$_7$. The tetragonal structure is not necessary for superconductivity.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. B
Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov pairing as leading instability on the square lattice
Creators: name: Gukelberger, Jan
name: Lienert, Sebastian
name: Kozik, Evgeny
name: Pollet, Lode
name: Troyer, Matthias
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study attractively interacting spin-1/2 fermions on the square lattice subject to a spin population imbalance. Using unbiased diagrammatic Monte Carlo simulations we find an extended region in the parameter space where the Fermi liquid is unstable towards formation of Cooper pairs with non-zero center-of-mass momentum, known as the Fulde-Ferrell-Larkin-Ovchinnikov (FFLO) state. In contrast to earlier mean-field and quasi-classical studies we provide quantitative and well-controlled predictions on the existence and location of the relevant Fermi-liquid instabilities. The highest temperature where the FFLO instability can be observed is about half of the superfluid transition temperature in the unpolarized system.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures; v2: improved references and discussion, added calculations with larger cutoff order that corroborate our earlier results
Visual Metaphors in Health Messages: A Strategy to De-Stigmatize Opioid Use Disorder
Creators: name: Dunlap, Ali
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: The opioid epidemic is a devastating drug crisis in American history with more than 28,000 deaths attributed to opioid use each year. Health communication campaigns can impact perceptions about the harmful effects of opioids, but they must be engaging to do so. Visual metaphors – artful deviations that visually link to abstract concepts – are one way to increase audience engagement. We sought to assess visual metaphors as a strategy to effectively communicate the harms of opioid use with a one-way experiment comparing opioid messages with a visual metaphor with opioid messages without a visual metaphor. Participants were 220 U.S. adults recruited from Amazon Mechanical Turk. Outcomes were beliefs, negative affect, perceived effectiveness, message quality, message strength, and cognitive elaboration. To assess the impact on stigma, both message conditions were compared to a no message condition. People who saw opioid messages with visual metaphors reported significantly greater negative affect than those who saw messages without a metaphor. Including a visual metaphor did not significantly impact the other perception outcomes or stigma (all p > .05). Our findings indicate that visual metaphors may be an effective strategy for eliciting emotional reactions, which can act as a critical first step for message engagement about serious health topics.
Non-equilibrium steady states of stochastic processes with intermittent resetting
Creators: name: Eule, Stephan
name: Metzger, Jakob
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Stochastic processes that are randomly reset to an initial condition serve as a showcase to investigate non-equilibrium steady states. However, all existing results have been restricted to the special case of memoryless resetting protocols. Here, we obtain the general solution for the distribution of processes in which waiting times between reset events are drawn from an arbitrary distribution. This allows for the investigation of a broader class of much more realistic processes. As an example, our results are applied to the analysis of the efficiency of constrained random search processes.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
title: A critical examination of the values and ethics of Scotland’s Curriculum for Excellence (CfE)
Creators: name: Osborne, Terence Philip
Publisher: name: Edinburgh Napier University
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/03zjvnn91
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: The thesis offers a new perspective through which to analyse CfE, by focusing on values and ethics, and the value pluralism of Isaiah Berlin.

The record suggests CfE is a blended, instrumentalist mix of values and ethics. I argue that ‘joined-up’ government policy seamlessly connected education to national political and economic priorities, so that the value of education itself shifted significantly from intrinsic, towards extrinsic neo-liberal ends; moral knowledge itself was instrumentalised.

I suggest a relativistic, ‘windowless box’ version of pluralism predominates, but that relativism works against social/cultural integration, because it becomes meaningless to ask which of the values are correct. Nonetheless, human differences are bridgeable and human understanding is possible.

CfE expresses no view at all about the good, avoiding the ethical kind of values as if there was something tainted about them. I argue that relativist accounts of pluralism led to ethical neutrality, and to the delegation of social moral values to schools, teachers and children, ultimately resting on a Scottish customary morality. I suggest it is not education’s job to tell children what to think, what is good or ethically the right thing to do, but it is, arguably, its job to discuss, explain, adjudicate between options, and make arguments for and against different normative ethical conclusions. It does not appear to do this, however.

I argue further that an assumed ‘beliefs-values-action’ moral continuum emphasises internalised moral reasoning not moral action, endorsing a cut-down Kantian moral law minus ‘duty’ and the ‘categorical imperatives’. Furthermore, its aspiration for children to develop their own social justice stances is too optimistic, unsupported by Kohlberg’s theory.

CfE’s delegation and consequent individualising of social moral values, arguably encourages infinite proliferation of moral and ethical viewpoints, making shared forms of social life that much harder to achieve, ultimately promoting the foreclosure of society.
DOS CRIMES E DAS OBRAS
Creators: name: Pavao Santana, Jose Claudio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: ANO 11 – N. 44/2023 – https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8311608

Inicio minhas palavras pela referência a algumas obras literárias e

jurídicas que conrmam o grau patológico que se constata em

alguns episódios no quotidiano do Brasil. Sim, é uma constatação não apenas uma elucubraç

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Cavity-free nondestructive detection of a single optical photon
Creators: name: Xia, Keyu
name: Johnsson, Mattias
name: Knight, Peter L.
name: Twamley, Jason
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Detecting a single photon without absorbing it is a long standing challenge in quantum optics. All experiments demonstrating the nondestructive detection of a photon make use of a high quality cavity. We present a cavity free scheme for nondestructive single-photon detection. By pumping a nonlinear medium we implement an inter-field Rabi-oscillation which leads to a ?pi phase shift on weak probe coherent laser field in the presence of a single signal photon without destroying the signal photon. Our cavity-free scheme operates with a fast intrinsic time scale in comparison with similar cavity-based schemes. We implement a full real-space multimode numerical analysis of the interacting photonic modes and confirm the validity of our nondestructive scheme in the multimode case.
description: 4 figures, 5 pages
Weaver: A High-Performance, Transactional Graph Database Based on Refinable Timestamps
Creators: name: Dubey, Ayush
name: Hill, Greg D.
name: Escriva, Robert
name: Sirer, Emin Gün
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing (cs.DC)
subject: Databases (cs.DB)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Graph databases have become an increasingly common infrastructure component. Yet existing systems either operate on offline snapshots, provide weak consistency guarantees, or use expensive concurrency control techniques that limit performance. In this paper, we introduce a new distributed graph database, called Weaver, which enables efficient, transactional graph analyses as well as strictly serializable ACID transactions on dynamic graphs. The key insight that allows Weaver to combine strict serializability with horizontal scalability and high performance is a novel request ordering mechanism called refinable timestamps. This technique couples coarse-grained vector timestamps with a fine-grained timeline oracle to pay the overhead of strong consistency only when needed. Experiments show that Weaver enables a Bitcoin blockchain explorer that is 8x faster than Blockchain.info, and achieves 12x higher throughput than the Titan graph database on social network workloads and 4x lower latency than GraphLab on offline graph traversal workloads.
How ractopamine binds to bovine serum albumin at the drug site 1
Creators: name: Janoon, Kanokwan
name: Kuntip, Nattapon
name: Niramitranon, Jitti
name: Pongprayoon, Prapasiri
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Ractopamine (RAC) is a common β-agonist often used as a feed additive to improve muscle mass in farm animals. However, RAC has been banned in several countries due to its toxicity. To date, no clear evidence shows pharmacological and poisonous adverse effect of RAC in farm animals. In beef cattle, although RAC can be carried by bovine serum albumin (BSA) at drug site I, its effect on BSA structure and function remains unclear. Thus, in this work, Molecular Dynamics (MD) Simulations were employed to explore the binding interactions of RAC to BSA. Seemingly, RAC causes the high flexibility of domains I and III and importantly induces the large expansion of drug site II’s cavity which can interfere the drug-binding ability of drug site II. RAC binds to drug site I close to subdomain IIA, which is the same naproxen-binding site. Like naproxen, a polar moiety of RAC interacts with R194, R198 and W213. Our results reveal the RAC intrusion into the fatty acid site 6 (FA6) which implies the connection between drug site I and FA6 site. An insight into the RAC-BSA binding here can act as a base to better understand a drug distribution and bioavailability in cattle.
Characterizing combination autophagy inhibition and exogenous stress in murine triple negative breast cancer
Creators: name: Lawton, Jack
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Background:Triple negative breast cancer represents a significant treatment challenge due to its inherent aggressiveness and lack of targetable receptors, consequently generating a need for novel treatment approaches. Autophagy, a self-degradative pathway that provides metabolic substrates and recycles damaged proteins and organelles, has been implicated in supporting cancer survival, progression towards metastasis, and chemotherapeutic resistance. Autophagy inhibition has exhibited weak effects on cancer by itself but provides a quality therapeutic target in combination with agents that exploit autophagy deficient cell vulnerabilities, classically through nutrient or chemotherapeutic stress. However, the success of autophagy inhibition in combination therapies has been shown to be highly tumor type, stage, and oncogene dependent, thus making researching the effect of autophagy and exogenous stress on Triple negative breast cancer an important avenue for continuing autophagy and cancer research.  Methods: In order to characterize autophagy deficient metastatic TNBC in vitro, ATG5, an essential autophagy protein, was knocked out using a CRISPR/Cas 9 construct in both a mesenchymal mouse derived TNBC cell dubbed the M-Wnt and in a metastatic line developed from M-Wnt lung metastases, called the metM-Wntlung. Experiments using both Wild-Type and autophagy deficient lines assayed relative growth, energy generation potential, EMT phenotype, and response to stress in the form of chemotherapeutics and nutrient starvation. Results: Relative to their autophagy competent counterparts, Atg5-/- cells showed decreased growth and significantly altered metabolism, displaying high basal energetics but reduced maximum energy production. Autophagy inhibition alone also resulted in downregulation of EMT regulators Twist, Snail, and Slug, and morphologically exhibited signs of an EMT reversion. Growth and metabolic effects were not observed across all exogenous stressors; only serum starvation and doxorubicin treatment appeared to act synergistically with autophagy inhibition to reduce cancer growth. Reactive oxygen species induced by doxorubicin and an inability to balance redox stress via an antioxidant response (NRF2) may underlie synergistic chemotherapy effects. Conclusions: These findings suggest that autophagy inhibition induces broad cellular changes, including metabolic alterations that strengthen specific nutrient and chemotherapeutic treatments. Further investigation of this model in vivo and identification of a molecular target to maximize autophagy inhibition effects have potential to lead to practical, effective adjuvant or neoadjuvant combination therapies.
Implication of the proton-deuteron radiative capture for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis
Creators: name: Marcucci, L. E.
name: Mangano, G.
name: Kievsky, A.
name: Viviani, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The astrophysical $S$-factor for the radiative capture $d(p,γ)^3$He in the energy-range of interest for Big Bang Nucleosynthesis (BBN) is calculated using an {\it ab-initio} approach. The nuclear Hamiltonian retains both two- and three-nucleon interactions - the Argonne $v_{18}$ and the Urbana IX, respectively. Both one- and many-body contributions to the nuclear current operator are included. The former retain for the first time, besides the $1/m$ leading order contribution ($m$ is the nucleon mass), also the next-to-leading order term, proportional to $1/m^3$. The many-body currents are constructed in order to satisfy the current conservation relation with the adopted Hamiltonian model. The hyperspherical harmonics technique is applied to solve the $A=3$ bound and scattering states. A particular attention is used in this second case in order to obtain, in the energy range of BBN, an uncertainty on the astrophysical $S$-factor of the order or below $\sim$1 %. Then, in this energy range, the $S$-factor is found to be $\sim$10 % larger than the currently adopted values.Part of this increase (1-3 %) is due to the $1/m^3$ one-body operator, while the remaining is due to the new more accurate scattering wave functions. We have studied the implication of this new determination for the $d(p,γ)^3$He $S$-factor on deuterium primordial abundance. We find that the predicted theoretical value for $^2$H/H is in excellent agreement with its experimental determination, using the most recent determination of baryon density of Planck experiment, and with a standard number of relativistic degrees of freedom $N_{\rm eff}=3.046$ during primordial nucleosynthesis.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Phys. Rev. Lett
Topos Quantum Theory Reduced by Context-Selection Functors
Creators: name: Nakayama, Kunji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we deal with quantum theories on presheaves and sheaves on context categories consisting of commutative von Neumann algebras of bounded operators on a Hilbert space, from two viewpoints. One is to reduce presheaf-based topos quantum theory via sheafification, and the other is to import quantum probabilities to the reduced sheaf quantum theory. The first is done by means of a functor that selects some expedient contexts. It defines a Grothendieck topology on the category consisting of all contexts, hence, induces a sheaf topos on which we construct a downsized quantum theory. Also, we show that the sheaf quantum theory can be replaced by an equivalent, more manageable presheaf quantum theory. Quantum probabilities are imported by means of a Grothendieck topology that is defined on a category consisting of probabilities and enables to regard them as intuitionistic truth-values. From these topologies, we construct another Grothendieck topology that is defined on the product of the context category and the probability category and reflects the selection of contexts and the identification of probabilities with truth-values. We construct a quantum theory equipped with quantum probabilities as truth-values on the sheaf topos induced by the Grothendieck topology.
description: 38pages
The Effect of Public Opinion on the Voting Behavior of Supreme Court Justices
Creators: name: Rosano, Kristen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Previous research has shown that public opinion has an effect on the voting of Supreme Court justices. The research reported here aims to add to this knowledge by looking more specifically at cases in which justices seem to vote against their typical ideological leanings. For the quantitative portion of this paper, regression analysis established a relationship between public opinion and Supreme Court justice votes, in the aggregate and for seven liberal and six conservative justices individually. In addition, justices responded less strongly to public opinion when the Court was more polarized. For the qualitative portion, Harry Blackmun’s papers were analyzed for cases in which he appeared to “switch.” In Planned Parenthood v. Danforth (and the related Roe v. Wade), he discussed how his vote was guided by his hopes for the future of the country, indicating that he was affected by public opinion. Thurgood Marshall, on the other hand, has discussed the importance of neutrality on the Court, while Antonin Scalia believes that justices should respond even more to the public than they do now. This research has implications in American politics because it indicates that the public can affect the highest court in the United States.
A DFT study on the scavenging activity of curcumin toward methyl and ethyl radicals
Creators: name: Biswas, Swarnadeep
name: Shukla, Pradeep Kumar
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Physiology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 60506 Virology

description: The curcumin is a well-known antioxidant that can scavenge free radicals efficiently. The methyl free radicals, generated by the metabolism of various genotoxic compounds such as hydrazines and peroxides, can methylate various sites in DNA. Herein, we have carried out density functional theory calculations to investigate the scavenging activity of curcumin toward the methyl and ethyl radicals through radical adduct formation (RAF), hydrogen atom transfer (HAT) and single electron transfer (SET) mechanisms. The SET mechanism is found to be highly endergonic and so not viable. Our calculations show that the curcumin can scavenge methyl radicals through both RAF and HAT mechanisms but RAF would be preferred over the HAT. Further, it is found that the curcumin can scavenge methyl radicals more efficiently as compared to ethyl radicals through RAF mechanism.
Knowledge is precision: Conceptual complexity and positive emotion differentiation
Creators: name: Mason, Caitlin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Valence asymmetry is the defined as the tendency for people to differentiate more among
their negative emotions than their positive emotions (Rice & Lindquist, in preparation).
However, the mechanism behind this valence asymmetry has yet to be identified.
According to the constructionist view of emotions and the Conceptual Act Theory
(CAT), emotions are made meaningful when we combine an affective experience with
our conceptual knowledge (Barrett, 2006; Lindquist, 2013). Therefore, the present study
tested three different hypotheses: participants would exhibit valence asymmetry in
emotional differentiation, participants would possess greater conceptual complexity for
negative emotions than for positive emotions, and that greater conceptual knowledge of
emotions would be positively correlated with emotional differentiation. Participants
completed both a card-sort task to measure conceptual complexity (Showers, 1992;
Rafaeli-Mor, Gotlib, & Revelle, 1999; Linville, 1985) and a lab-based measure to assess
emotional differentiation (Lang et al., 2005). The valence asymmetry was replicated and
participants demonstrated greater conceptual complexity for negative emotions than for
positive emotions; however, conceptual complexity was not significantly correlated with
emotion differentiation.
Examining the Boundaries Between Musical Borrowing, Influence, and Plagiarism
Creators: name: Johnson, Rachel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Through two case studies, we will compare excerpts from post-tonal pieces to illustrate the grey area that exists between acceptable musical borrowing and plagiarism. Our first analysis will focus on two excerpts from Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, comparing them to two excerpts from Igor Stravinsky’s Les Noces. Next, the study will turn to a comparison of John Williams’s “Parade of the Ewoks” and Sergei Prokofiev’s “March” from his opera The Love for Three Oranges. It is important to keep in mind that this essay hopes not to condemn a composer or piece of music, but rather to open a philosophical dialogue about where acceptable borrowing ends and plagiarism begins, and how this intangible boundary may affect artistic creation in today’s society.
Semigroups in Stable Structures
Creators: name: Halevi, Yatir
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic (math.LO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Assume $G$ is a definable group in a stable structure $M$. Newelski showed that the semigroup $S_G(M)$ of complete types concentrated on $G$ is an inverse limit of the $\infty$-definable (in $M^{eq}$) semigroups $S_{G,Δ}(M)$. He also shows that it is strongly $π$-regular: for every $p\in S_{G,Δ}(M)$ there exists $n\in\mathbb{N}$ such that $p^n$ is in a subgroup of $S_{G,Δ}(M)$. We show that $S_{G,Δ}(M)$ is in fact an intersection of definable semigroups, so $S_G(M)$ is an inverse limit of definable semigroups and that the latter property is enjoyed by all $\infty$-definable semigroups in stable structures.
Characterization of antiepileptic drug therapy for achieving seizure cessation in patients with benzodiazepine-resistant status epilepticus
Creators: name: Northrup, Olena
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Due to a lack of evidence regarding choice of AED for RSE, there is a need to elucidate
the comparative effectiveness and safety of these agents in patients with seizures not responding
to benzodiazepines. The purpose of this study was to characterize the utilization of antiepileptic
drugs for the induction of seizure cessation in patients with benzodiazepine-resistant status
epilepticus at a community hospital in comparison to current literature.
Quantification of the impact of water on the wetting behavior of hydrophilic ionic liquid: a molecular dynamics study
Creators: name: Bhattacharjee, Sanchari
name: Khan, Sandip
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Space Science
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: We have used molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to investigate the effect of water on the wetting behaviour and the interfacial structure of ionic liquid (IL) 1-ethyl-3-methylimidazolium tetrafluoroborate [EMIM][BF4] droplets on graphite surfaces which, is a prerequisite for the IL-based applications where the solid-fluid interface is involved. A slight decrement in the value of the contact angle has been found while adding water up to 17 wt% (xw∼0.68) afterward, the contact angle increases. The non-monotonic behaviour in the contact angle of IL-water droplet with the addition of water molecules was examined through several key parameters, such as solid-fluid interaction energy, the density profile of each species, cluster formation, and the number of formed hydrogen bonds (HBs) for the different weight percentages of water molecules. The results indicate that the hydrogen bond network and the cluster formation among the water molecules play a vital role during the transition from IL rich medium to water rich medium of the droplet.
Jet Quenching and Gluon to Hadron Fragmentation Function in Non-Equilibrium QCD at RHIC and LHC
Creators: name: Nayak, Gouranga C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theoretical understanding of the observed jet quenching measurements at RHIC and LHC is challenging in QCD because it requires understanding of parton to hadron fragmentation function in non-equilibrium QCD. In this paper, by using closed-time path integral formalism, we derive the gauge invariant definition of the gluon to hadron fragmentation function in non-equilibrium QCD which is consistent with factorization theorem in non-equilibrium QCD from first principles.
description: Final Version, Accepted For Publication in Phys. Part. Nucl. Lett., 19 Pages Latex
title: Rezension zu Jörg Bong und Roland Borgards (Hgg.): Ludwig Tieck: Wilde Geschichten
Creators: name: Takamura, David
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Romantik
subject: Frühromantik
subject: Ludwig Tieck
subject: Erzählungen
subject: „Straußfedern“
subject: 800
subject: 830

description: David Takamura rezensiert Jörg Bongs und Roland Borgards' (Hgg.) „Ludwig Tieck: Wilde Geschichten“ (Galiani Berlin 2023).
description: Modell Romantik: Variation - Reichweite - Aktualität
Untitled ItemModern India and Two Thinkers Mohan Das Gandhi And Pt. Deen Dyal Upadhyay
Creators: name: Pandey, Anurag
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Social and political philosophy
Political theory and political philosophy
Political science not elsewhere classified

description: Many human personalities have arisen that are far more powerful than product or service brands. If we had to make a list of such people from the pre-independence period, Mohan Das Gandhi would most likely come out on top for his contribution to human ideals and freedom struggle. Gandhi's ideology has influenced people from all walks of life, even almost seventy eight years after his death. Except Gandhi, one more prominent figure was active in providing human values and working for independence of the country, Pt. Deen Dyal Upadhyay. The aim of this paper is to uncover the ideas of Mahatma Gandhi and Pt. Deen Dyal Upadhyay how their communications shaped India during their lifetime and even after their death.
ENLACE: Community Health & Safety Intervention Training for Promotoras
Creators: name: Institute, Latino Research
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2024
Subjects: Enlace
Latino
Latina
Hispanic
women
promotora
community outreach
physical activity
border
rural
exercise
fitness
South Texas
intervention
training
health educator
community health worker
protocol

description: The study “ENLACE: A Promotora-Led Physical Activity Intervention Trial for Latinas in Texas” is a clinical trial (NCT00869583) funded by the National Institute of Health (NIH) (R01HL111718).
description: This record includes materials used to train community health workers, or promotoras, in the delivery of the Community Health & Safety group intervention for the ENLACE study. Reference the Community Health & Safety intervention program record for more information about intervention content.
Tending the Enemy's Flock: German Pastors and POWs in Britain, 1940-1955
Creators: name: Dell'Omo, Augusta
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This thesis argues that German pastors, through the medium of the German POWs, created a space for themselves to take part on international conversations of denazification, humanization, and reintegration of the postwar world. These actions were undertaken under the umbrella of the movement toward an end to the Second World War, and later, on the coming Cold War. Both British authorities and German pastors recognized that these POWs presented them with an opportunity to influence part of the population that would rebuild Germany, and German pastors recognized an opportunity to attempt to transform the image of Germany conveyed to Britain and the world. First, I argue that because of the failure of British efforts to reeducate the German POWs located on the Isles, German pastors took up the mantle of reeducation. Their efforts involved a holistic program of reeducation, including employment, intellectual engagement, and the forging of personal connections to Germany. By participating in these efforts,
German pastors sought to reeducate German POWs, and to improve the image of the German citizen worldwide, particularly as the war came to a close. Second, I contend that the pastors’ aid to POWs in their transition to Germany was motivated by a desire to evangelize the POWs and also to help change the damaged German Protestant Churches. Because the West, due to the events of the war, called the ethical reputation of German churches into question, pastors sought an opportunity to show how Germans could contribute to the global movement for Christian Reconstruction. As Britain failed to prepare POWs for repatriation, pastors instead helped ready POWs for their reintegration into the homeland. Finally, I assert that the POWs remaining in the camps after the war ended, experienced a critical moral reckoning, facilitated and monitored by the German pastors. Some members of the British populace began to perceive the great suffering of the POWs, and protested the government’s efforts to treat them as second-class citizens with restricted opportunity to remain in Britain. In tandem, German pastors began to try and “return their humanity” to the POWs, by reconnecting them with their families and using
them to examine their feelings toward their captors. The German pastors were then able to expand these transcontinental POW connections to help not only German migrants coming to Britain, but German-Jewish refugees as well. As the war ended, Germans and Britons alike were compelled to assess their roles in the coming new world order. Ultimately, through their involvement in German POW affairs, pastors endeavored to create a transnational, religious, and cultural connection between Germany and Britain that would be vital in the coming Cold War.
Berry phases and zero-modes in toroidal topological insulator
Creators: name: Fonseca, J. M.
name: Carvalho-Santos, V. L.
name: Moura-Melo, W. A.
name: Pereira, A. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An effective Hamiltonian describing the surface states of a toroidal topological insulator is obtained, and it is shown to support both bound-states and charged zero-modes. Actually, the spin connection induced by the toroidal curvature can be viewed as an position-dependent effective vector potential, which ultimately yields the zero-modes whose wave-functions harmonically oscillate around the toroidal surface. In addition, two distinct Berry phases are predicted to take place by the virtue of the toroidal topology.
description: New version, accepted for publication in EPJB, 6 pages, 1 figure
A compact iodine-laser operating at 531 nm with stability at the 10$^{-12}$ level and using a coin-sized laser module
Creators: name: Kobayashi, Takumi
name: Akamatsu, Daisuke
name: Hosaka, Kazumoto
name: Inaba, Hajime
name: Okubo, Sho
name: Tanabe, Takehiko
name: Yasuda, Masami
name: Onae, Atsushi
name: Hong, Feng-Lei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We demonstrate a compact iodine-stabilized laser operating at 531 nm using a coin-sized light source consisting of a 1062-nm distributed-feedback diode laser and a frequency-doubling element. A hyperfine transition of molecular iodine is observed using the light source with saturated absorption spectroscopy. The light source is frequency stabilized to the observed iodine transition and achieves frequency stability at the 10$^{-12}$ level. The absolute frequency of the compact laser stabilized to the $a_{1}$ hyperfine component of the $R(36)32-0$ transition is determined as $564\,074\,632\,419(8)$ kHz with a relative uncertainty of $1.4\times10^{-11}$. The iodine-stabilized laser can be used for various applications including interferometric measurements.
Extending the square root method to account for additive forecast noise in ensemble methods
Creators: name: Raanes, Patrick N.
name: Carrassi, Alberto
name: Bertino, Laurent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability (physics.data-an)
subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A square root approach is considered for the problem of accounting for model noise in the forecast step of the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) and related algorithms. The primary aim is to replace the method of simulated, pseudo-random, additive noise so as to eliminate the associated sampling errors. The core method is based on the analysis step of ensemble square root filters, and consists in the deterministic computation of a transform matrix. The theoretical advantages regarding dynamical consistency are surveyed, applying equally well to the square root method in the analysis step. A fundamental problem due to the limited size of the ensemble subspace is discussed, and novel solutions that complement the core method are suggested and studied. Benchmarks from twin experiments with simple, low-order dynamics indicate improved performance over standard approaches such as additive, simulated noise and multiplicative inflation.