cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Race, class and federalism : a history and analysis of San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973).
Creators: name: Wagstaff, Caroline Victoria Anderson
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: The plaintiffs in San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez (1973) challenged the constitutionality of the school finance system existing in all states except Hawaii. The Supreme Court, by a 5-4 decision, denied the plaintiffs’ claims. Rodriguez did not precipitate immediate change and thus its historical significance was not immediately identifiable. As a result, historians have mostly overlooked the case. The significance of the case, however, lies in the reasons for the Court’s rejection of the plaintiffs’ claims. Where Brown v. Board of Education dealt with the rights of black children, Rodriguez dealt with the rights of poor children. The plaintiffs sought a political weapon with which to fight class discrimination. The reliance upon the property tax for school funding ensured that the expenditure per pupil reflected the wealth of the surrounding neighbourhood. According to the plaintiffs, the school finance system discriminated on the basis of race and class, thereby violating the equal protection clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. According to the defendants, however, plaintiffs’ claims challenged one of the fundamental features of federalism: the right of the state to choose localism in education. The rejection of the plaintiffs’ claims marked the Supreme Court’s refusal to further extend constitutional guarantees of equality. It determined that economic rights were not protected by the Constitution, thereby defining the outer parameters of constitutional equality. The opposing arguments encapsulated the contrasting political ideologies of the period, and this dissertation places Rodriguez within the broader historical environment in order to illustrate its historical significance. The case emerged from the new definition of equality that had resulted from the activism of the 1960s, yet the issues it raised extended far beyond its original context. Rodriguez held vast ideological implications regarding the congruity between race and class within American society, it raised institutional considerations of the appropriate role of the Supreme Court within the political process, and it seemingly challenged localism within education. The forces of race, class and federalism were being redefined in the late 1960s and the early 1970s. An examination of Rodriguez provides an insight into the nature of these changes and the manner in which society reacted to these changes.
Mechanistic studies of pH sensing by Gαi
Creators: name: Zijian Li
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: One mechanism that cells use to control cellular growth and protect from environmental stress is by regulation of intracellular pH. To better understand this regulatory mechanism, signaling proteins that detect pH changes need to be identified and characterized. One important class of pH sensing proteins is G-protein coupled receptors (GPCRs). These cell surface receptors transduce extracellular signals to control intracellular signaling pathways by activating G-proteins to control a variety of cellular responses. Heterotrimeric G-proteins, in turn, function as molecular switches that are activated by binding to guanosine triphosphate (GTP) and inactivated by hydrolyzing GTP to guanosine diphosphate (GDP). G-proteins have more recently been identified as pH sensors; however, the molecular basis for pH regulation is poorly understood. Work from our lab has shown that the stability of GDP-bound Gαi, is highly dependent on pH over the physiological pH range. My work involved the use of NMR, circular dichroism, and mutagenesis approaches to identify a network of charged amino acids in the GDP-bound Gαi, which modulate its structural and dynamic properties in a pH-dependent manner. When these key residues are mutated, the pH-dependent thermal stability as measured by the half-point of thermal unfolding (Tm) is abolished. To assess how intracellular pH changes alter Gαi signaling, my work also involved the application of a BRET assay that reports on Gαi interaction with its beta/gamma (βγ) subunit.  Results from these studies indicate that pH affects the Gαi activation by altering Gαi-βγ dissociation. While the stability of the active GTP-bound state of Gαi is also pH-dependent, we found that mutations of the same residues identified in GDP-bound Gαi reduce, but do not abolish the pH-dependence, suggesting the potential presence of additional or distinct pH sensing residues in the active GTP-bound state of Gαi. As GPCRs account for about 40% of targets for approved drugs, elucidating the pH-sensing mechanism by Gαi and its biological role can have significant implications in drug discovery efforts.
The long-short wavelength mode coupling tightens primordial black hole constraints
Creators: name: Young, Sam
name: Byrnes, Christian T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The effects of non-gaussianity on the constraints on the primordial curvature perturbation power spectrum from primordial black holes (PBHs) are considered. We extend previous analyses to include the effects of coupling between the modes of the horizon scale at the time the PBH forms and super-horizon modes. We consider terms of up to third order in the Gaussian perturbation. For the weakest constraints on the abundance of PBHs in the early universe (corresponding to a fractional energy density of PBHs of $10^{-5}$ at the time of formation), in the case of gaussian perturbations, constraints on the power spectrum are $\mathcal{P}_ζ<0.05$ but can significantly tighter when even a small amount of non-gaussianity is considered, to $\mathcal{P}_ζ<0.01$, and become approximately $\mathcal{P}_ζ<0.003$ in more special cases. Surprisingly, even when there is negative skew (which naively would suggest fewer areas of high density, leading to weaker constraints), we find that the constraints on the power spectrum become tighter than the purely gaussian case - in strong contrast with previous results. We find that the constraints are highly sensitive to both the non-gaussianity parameters as well as the amplitude of super-horizon perturbations.
description: 15 pages, 9 figures. V2: minor corrections and additions, closely matches published version
MOESM17 of Characterization of the non-glandular gastric region microbiota in Helicobacter suis-infected versus non-infected pigs identifies a potential role for Fusobacterium gastrosuis in gastric ulceration
Creators: name: Chloë De Witte
name: Demeyere, Kristel
name: Bruyckere, Sofie De
name: Taminiau, Bernard
name: Daube, Georges
name: Ducatelle, Richard
name: Meyer, Evelyne
name: Haesebrouck, Freddy
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 17. Visualization of KYSE-450 cellular morphology using hemacolor staining and detection of early apoptotic and late apoptotic/necrotic cells using flow cytometry. (A-D) Hemacolor staining of KYSE-450 cells incubated (A) without F. gastrosuis for 48 h and (B-D) with 500 µg F. gastrosuis strain CDW1 incubated for (B) 36 h, (C) 48 h and (D) 72 h. Following morphologic features can be seen: plasma membrane blebbing (white arrow), cell swelling (white star), cytoplasmic vacuoles (black star). Original magnification x400, scale bar represents 10 µm. (E-M) Representative population plots displaying viable (green, Annexin-V-FITC negative, PI negative), early apoptotic (red, Annexin-V-FITC positive, PI negative), late apoptotic/necrotic (blue, Annexin-V-FITC positive, PI positive) cells and late necrotic (orange, Annexin-V-FITC negative, PI positive) of KYSE-450 cells incubated (E) without F. gastrosuis lysate for 72 h; (F-I) with 500 µg F. gastrosuis strain CDW1 for (F) 24 h; (G) 36 h; (H) 48 h and (I) 72 h; (J) without viable F. gastrosuis bacteria for 12 h; (K-M) with 50 MOI F. gastrosuis bacteria strain CDW8 for (K) 2 h; (L) 6h and (M) 12 h. Y-axis: propidium iodide (PE) signal intensity; X-axis: Annexin-V-fluorescein isothiocyanate (FITC) signal intensity. The percentage of population plots is presented in the corresponding gate.
An Exploratory Study of Spiritual Care at the End of Life
Creators: name: Rawlings, J.
name: Daaleman, T. P.
name: Williams, S. W.
name: Hanson, L. C.
name: Usher, B. M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: PURPOSE Although spiritual care is a core element of palliative care, it remains unclear how this care is perceived and delivered at the end of life. We explored how clinicians and other health care workers understand and view spiritual care provided to dying patients and their family members.
New Syriac Version of Theodoret's St. Maron Account Has Been Discovered
Creators: name: Hourani, Guita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: History of religion
Middle Eastern and North African history
Classical Greek and Roman history

description: According to a recent article, four Syriac documents with undertexts in two previously unexplored Vatican Library holdings of membra disjecta revealed Syriac versions of Theodoret of Cyrrhus' Historia Religiosa, including two Syriac portions of Theodoret's life of Saint Maron (d. 410 AD). The writings were concealed in palimpsests. The latter are manuscript pages that have had their original text erased in order for them to be reused, but the pages still contain traces of the original contents.
Community Care of North Carolina: Improving Care Through Community Health Networks
Creators: name: Wroth, T.
name: Steiner, B. D.
name: Ashkin, E.
name: Dobson, L. A.
name: Denham, A. C.
name: Newton, W. P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: The United States leads the world in health care costs but ranks far below many developed countries in health outcomes. Finding ways to narrow this gap remains elusive. This article describes the response of one state to establish community health networks to achieve quality, utilization, and cost objectives for the care of its Medicaid recipients. The program, known as Community Care of North Carolina, is an innovative effort organized and operated by practicing community physicians. In partnership with hospitals, health departments, and departments of social services, these community networks have improved quality and reduced cost since their inception a decade ago. The program is now saving the State of North Carolina at least $160 million annually. A description of this experience and the lessons learned from it can inform others seeking to implement effective systems of care for patients with chronic illness.
Lorentzian contours for tree-level string amplitudes
Creators: name: Eberhardt, Lorenz
name: Mizera, Sebastian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We engineer compact contours on the moduli spaces of genus-zero Riemann surfaces that achieve analytic continuation from Euclidean to Lorentzian worldsheets. These generalized Pochhammer contours are based on the combinatorics of associahedra and make the analytic properties of tree-level amplitudes entirely manifest for any number and type of external strings. We use them in practice to perform first numerical computations of open and closed string amplitudes directly in the physical kinematics for $n=4,5,6,7,8,9$. We provide a code that allows anyone to do such computations.
description: 27 pages, ancillary Mathematica notebook for numerical string amplitude computations
Cost to Primary Care Practices of Responding to Payer Requests for Quality and Performance Data
Creators: name: Hofstetter, S.
name: Sloane, P. D.
name: Wroth, T.
name: Stearns, S. C.
name: Halladay, J. R.
name: Zimmerman, S.
name: Spragens, L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: PURPOSE We wanted to determine how much it costs primary care practices to participate in programs that require them to gather and report data on care quality indicators.
Scale-invariant scalar spectrum from the nonminimal derivative coupling with fourth-order term
Creators: name: Myung, Yun Soo
name: Moon, Taeyoon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An exactly scale-invariant spectrum of scalar perturbation generated during de Sitter spacetime is found from the gravity model of the nonminimal derivative coupling with fourth-order term. The nonminimal derivative coupling term generates a healthy (ghost-free) fourth-order derivative term, while the fourth-order term provides an unhealthy (ghost) fourth-order derivative term. The Harrison-Zel'dovich spectrum obtained from Fourier transforming the fourth-order propagator in de Sitter space is recovered by computing the power spectrum in its momentum space directly. It shows that this model provides a truly scale-invariant spectrum, in addition to the Lee-Wick scalar theory.
description: 1+18 pages, no figure, version to appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys. D
Additional file 2 of High levels of soluble RAGE are associated with a greater risk of mortality in COVID-19 patients treated with dexamethasone
Creators: name: Butcher, Lee
name: Zaldua, Jun-Cezar
name: Carnicero, Jose A.
name: Hawkins, Karl
name: Whitley, Janet
name: Mothukuri, Rangaswamy
name: Evans, Phillip A.
name: Morris, Keith
name: Pillai, Suresh
name: Erusalimsky, Jorge D.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 2. Table S1. Relationships between sRAGE, NEWS2 and IL-6. Table S2. Univariate analysis for potential predictors of mortality in dexamethasone-treated COVID-19 patients. Table S3. Performance of sRAGE and NEWS2 in their ability to predict mortality in dexamethasone-treated COVID-19 patients
MOESM3 of Characterization of the non-glandular gastric region microbiota in Helicobacter suis-infected versus non-infected pigs identifies a potential role for Fusobacterium gastrosuis in gastric ulceration
Creators: name: ChloĂŤ De Witte
name: Demeyere, Kristel
name: Bruyckere, Sofie De
name: Taminiau, Bernard
name: Daube, Georges
name: Ducatelle, Richard
name: Meyer, Evelyne
name: Haesebrouck, Freddy
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Medicine
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: Hematology
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 3. Gating strategy of the KYSE-450 cell line. (A) FSC-A/SSC-A represents the distribution of cells in the light scatter based on their size and intracellular complexity, respectively. The cells of interest are gated excluding debris. (B) FSC-A/FSC-H allows discrimination between single cells and doublets, single cells are gated. (C) Gain settings and compensation matrix. (D-E) FITC-A/PE-A identifies the selective subpopulations: viable (Annexin-V-FITC negative, PI negative), early apoptotic (Annexin-V-FITC positive, PI negative), late apoptotic/necrotic (Annexin-V-FITC positive, PI positive) and late necrotic (Annexin-V-FITC negative, PI positive) cells.
Report on the effects of climate change on the current and future spread of viral diseases in Europe
Creators: name: Ripamonti, M.
name: Eickermann, M.
name: Junk, J.
name: Desbiez, C.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2025

description: Deliverable D4.1 provides a technical report on the influence of climate change on virus vector interaction for ToLCNDV as its vector, the Bemisia tabaci whitefly.The H2020 project VIRTIGATION - Emerging viral diseases in tomatoes and cucurbits: Implementation of mitigation strategies for durable disease management - has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under Grant Agreement No. 101000570.
Additional file 1: of Isolation and identification of Brucella melitensis using bacteriological and molecular tools from aborted goats in the Afar region of north-eastern Ethiopia
Creators: name: Muluken Tekle
name: Mengistu Legesse
name: Bedaso Edao
name: Gobena Ameni
name: Gezahegne Mamo
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Questionnaire for small ruminant owners- small ruminant Brucellosis Project-the questionnaire to assess the duration of abortion, history of previous abortion, other related information and to assess the cultural habits of the owners on consumption of animal products and other related risk factors. In addition it also contain data collection format on those aborted animals used as source of bacteriological sample sources. (DOCX 19 kb)
Vatican manuscripts discovery St Maron's life
Creators: name: Hourani, Guita
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: History of religion
Middle Eastern and North African history
Classical Greek and Roman history

description: According to a recent article, four Syriac documents with undertexts in two previously unexplored Vatican Library holdings of membra disjecta revealed Syriac versions of Theodoret of Cyrrhus' Historia Religiosa, including two Syriac portions of Theodoret's life of Saint Maron (d. 410 AD). The writings were concealed in palimpsests. The latter are manuscript pages that have had their original text erased in order for them to be reused, but the pages still contain traces of the original contents.
HOW ENTERPRISE NETWORK CAPABILITIES, TECHNOLOGICAL CAPABILITIES, AND SOCIAL CAPITAL CONTRIBUTE TO DIGITAL PERFORMANCE: THE MEDIATING ROLE OF DIGITAL CAPABILITIES
Creators: name: TAO HUANG
name: SROCHINEE SIRIWATTANA
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Digital Performance; Network Capability; Technological Capability; Social Capital; PLS-SEM.

description: Abstract

With the rapid development and application of emerging technologies, digital transformation has become a crucial approach for enterprises to enhance their competitiveness and achieve sustainable development. In this context, conducting a multi - dimensional analysis of digital transformation performance holds significant theoretical and practical value. This study aims to explore the impacts of corporate network capability, social capital, technological capability, and digital capability on corporate digital performance. The research findings indicate that corporate network capability, social capital, and technological capability have a significant positive impact on digital capability, and they indirectly promote the improvement of digital performance through digital capability. Digital capability plays a key role in enhancing enterprise operation efficiency and innovation ability, and has a significant positive impact on digital performance. Theoretically, this study enriches the multi - dimensional analysis framework in the field of digital transformation, especially providing new insights into the action mechanisms of technology, networks, and social capital. In practice, the research results offer important management implications for corporate managers, emphasizing the importance of strengthening network capability building, enhancing technological capability, cultivating digital capability, and optimizing the utilization of social capital, so as to better promote the digital transformation of enterprises and achieve higher digital performance.
Diagnostic Accuracy of Spanish Language Depression-Screening Instruments
Creators: name: Cherrington, A.
name: Gaynes, B. N.
name: Blanco, R. A.
name: Watkins, G. S.
name: Bradford, D. W.
name: Reuland, D. S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: PURPOSE To make decisions about implementing systematic depression screening, primary care physicians who serve Spanish-speaking populations need to know whether Spanish language depression-screening instruments are accurate. We aimed to review systematically the evidence regarding diagnostic accuracy of depression-screening instruments in Spanish-speaking primary care populations.
Feasibility and Diagnostic Validity of the M-3 Checklist: A Brief, Self-Rated Screen for Depressive, Bipolar, Anxiety, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorders in Primary Care
Creators: name: Rubinow, D. R.
name: Gaynes, B. N.
name: Culpepper, L.
name: DeVeaugh-Geiss, J.
name: Gu, H.
name: Schulberg, H. C.
name: Weir, S.
name: MacPherson, C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: PURPOSE Mood and anxiety disorders are the most common psychiatric conditions seen in primary care, yet they remain underdetected and undertreated. Screening tools can improve detection, but available instruments are limited by the number of disorders assessed. We wanted to assess the feasibility and diagnostic validity of the My Mood Monitor (M-3) checklist, a new, 1-page, patient-rated, 27-item tool developed to screen for multiple psychiatric disorders in primary care.
On a $\mathbb{Z}_3$-valued discrete topological term in 10d heterotic string theories
Creators: name: Tachikawa, Yuji
name: Zhang, Hao Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show that the low-energy effective actions of two ten-dimensional supersymmetric heterotic strings are different by a $\mathbb{Z}_3$-valued discrete topological term even after we turn off the $E_8\times E_8$ and $Spin(32)/\mathbb{Z}_2$ gauge fields. This will be demonstrated by considering the inflow of normal bundle anomaly to the respective NS5-branes from the bulk. We also find that the $Spin(16)\times Spin(16)$ non-tachyonic non-supersymmetric heterotic string has the same non-zero $\mathbb{Z}_3$-valued discrete topological term. We will also explain the relation of our findings to the theory of topological modular forms.
 The paper is written as a string theory paper, except for an appendix translating the content in mathematical terms. We will explain there that our finding identifies a representative of the $\mathbb{Z}/3$-torsion element of $π_{-32}\mathrm{TMF}$ as a particular self-dual vertex operator superalgebra of $c=16$ and how we utilize string duality to arrive at this statement.
description: 20 pages + an appendix, 2 figures; v2: notations changed and references added
Unexplained Gastrointestinal Symptoms After Abuse in a Prospective Study of Children at Risk for Abuse and Neglect
Creators: name: Dubowitz, H.
name: Litrownik, A. J.
name: Whitehead, W. E.
name: Chitkara, D. K.
name: van Tilburg, M. A. L.
name: Runyan, D. K.
name: Flaherty, E.
name: Zolotor, A. J.
name: Graham, J. C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: PURPOSE Unexplained gastrointestinal symptoms are more common in adults who recall abuse as a child; however, data available on children are limited. The aim of this study was to investigate the association of childhood maltreatment and early development of gastrointestinal symptoms and whether this relation was mediated by psychological distress.
Stationary axisymmetric spacetimes with a conformally coupled scalar field
Creators: name: Astorino, Marco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Solution generating techniques for general relativity with a conformally (and minimally) coupled scalar field are pushed forward to build a wide class of asymptotically flat, axisymmetric and stationary spacetimes continuously connected to Kerr. This family contains, amongst other things, rotating extensions of the Bekenstein black hole and also its angular and mass multipolar generalisations. Further addition of NUT charge is also discussed.
description: v2: 23 pages, published version
Additional file 1 of Synergistic effect of chronic kidney disease, neuropathy, and retinopathy on all-cause mortality in type 1 and type 2 diabetes: a 21-year longitudinal study
Creators: name: Sacchetta, Luca
name: Chiriacò, Martina
name: Nesti, Lorenzo
name: Leonetti, Simone
name: Forotti, Giovanna
name: Natali, Andrea
name: Solini, Anna
name: Tricò, Domenico
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Marine Biology
subject: Cancer

description: Additional file 1: Table S1. Baseline characteristics of the subgroup of study participants fully characterized for the presence of CKD, CAN, and DR. Table S2. Baseline characteristics of the study participants fully characterized for the presence of CKD, CAN, and DR stratified by the number of MVC.
Concatenated Steane code with single-flag syndrome checks
Creators: name: Pato, Balint
name: Tansuwannont, Theerapat
name: Brown, Kenneth R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A fault-tolerant error correction (FTEC) protocol with a high error suppression rate and low overhead is very desirable for the near-term implementation of quantum computers. In this work, we develop a distance-preserving flag FTEC protocol for the [[49,1,9]] concatenated Steane code, which requires only two ancilla qubits per generator and can be implemented on a planar layout. We generalize the weight-parity error correction (WPEC) technique from [Phys. Rev. A 104, 042410 (2021)] and find a gate ordering of flag circuits for the concatenated Steane code which makes syndrome extraction with two ancilla qubits per generator possible. The FTEC protocol is constructed using the optimization tools for flag FTEC developed in [PRX Quantum 5, 020336 (2024)] and is simulated under the circuit-level noise model without idling noise. Our simulations give a pseudothreshold of $1.64 \times 10^{-3}$ for the [[49,1,9]] concatenated Steane code, which is better than a pseudothreshold of $1.43 \times 10^{-3}$ for the [[61,1,9]] 6.6.6 color code simulated under the same settings. This is in contrast to the code capacity model where the [[61,1,9]] code performs better.
description: 13 pages, 12 figures. v2: minor correction. v3: source code now available
Experts Employ a Target-Locking Behaviour in Laparoscopic Surgery
Creators: Aghazadeh, Farzad
Fathian, Ramin
Zheng, Bin
Tavakoli, Mahdi
Rouhani, Hossein
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Conference abstract. Part of the Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress 2022.
Family Physician Participation in Maintenance of Certification
Creators: name: Xierali, I. M.
name: Petterson, S. M.
name: Bazemore, A. W.
name: Green, L. A.
name: Rinaldo, J. C. B.
name: Newton, W. P.
name: Phillips, R. L.
name: Puffer, J. C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: PURPOSE The American Board of Family Medicine has completed the 7-year transition of all of its diplomates into Maintenance of Certification (MOC). Participation in this voluntary process must be broad-based and balanced for MOC to have any practical national impact on health care. This study explores family physicians’ geographic, demographic, and practice characteristics associated with the variations in MOC participation to examine whether MOC has potential as a viable mechanism for dissemination of information or for altering practice.
Context Matters: The Experience of 14 Research Teams in Systematically Reporting Contextual Factors Important for Practice Change
Creators: name: Donahue, K. E.
name: Tirodkar, M. A.
name: Parchman, M. L.
name: Hauser, D.
name: Scholle, S. H.
name: Wise, C. G.
name: Fetters, M. D.
name: Alexander, J. A.
name: Shih, S. C.
name: Schmidt, L.
name: Cronholm, P. F.
name: McMullen, C. K.
name: Tomoaia-Cotisel, A.
name: Halladay, J. R.
name: Scammon, D. L.
name: Hsu, C.
name: Waitzman, N. J.
name: Tai-Seale, M.
name: Hiratsuka, V.
name: Solberg, L. I.
name: Driscoll, D. L.
name: Stange, K. C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: We aimed to advance the internal and external validity of research by sharing our empirical experience and recommendations for systematically reporting contextual factors.
Non-abelian Dark Matter Solutions for Galactic Gamma-ray Excess and Perseus 3.5 keV X-ray Line
Creators: name: Cheung, Kingman
name: Huang, Wei-Chih
name: Tsai, Yue-Lin Sming
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We attempt to explain simultaneously the Galactic center gamma-ray excess and the 3.5 keV X-ray line from the Perseus cluster based on a class of non-abelian $SU(2)$ DM models, in which the dark matter and an excited state comprise a "dark" $SU(2)$ doublet. The non-abelian group kinetically mixes with the standard model gauge group via dimensions-5 operators. The dark matter particles annihilate into standard model fermions, followed by fragmentation and bremsstrahlung, and thus producing a continuous spectrum of gamma-rays. On the other hand, the dark matter particles can annihilate into a pair of excited states, each of which decays back into the dark matter particle and an X-ray photon, which has an energy equal to the mass difference between the dark matter and the excited state, which is set to be 3.5 keV. The large hierarchy between the required X-ray and $γ$-ray annihilation cross-sections can be achieved by a very small kinetic mixing between the SM and dark sector, which effectively suppresses the annihilation into the standard model fermions but not into the excited state.
description: v3: references and clarifications added, conclusions unchanged, version accepted by JCAP
Attacks exploiting deviation of mean photon number in quantum key distribution and coin tossing
Creators: name: Sajeed, Shihan
name: Radchenko, Igor
name: Kaiser, Sarah
name: Bourgoin, Jean-Philippe
name: Pappa, Anna
name: Monat, Laurent
name: Legre, Matthieu
name: Makarov, Vadim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The security of quantum communication using a weak coherent source requires an accurate knowledge of the source's mean photon number. Finite calibration precision or an active manipulation by an attacker may cause the actual emitted photon number to deviate from the known value. We model effects of this deviation on the security of three quantum communication protocols: the Bennett-Brassard 1984 (BB84) quantum key distribution (QKD) protocol without decoy states, Scarani-Acin-Ribordy-Gisin 2004 (SARG04) QKD protocol, and a coin-tossing protocol. For QKD, we model both a strong attack using technology possible in principle, and a realistic attack bounded by today's technology. To maintain the mean photon number in two-way systems, such as plug-and-play and relativistic quantum cryptography schemes, bright pulse energy incoming from the communication channel must be monitored. Implementation of a monitoring detector has largely been ignored so far, except for ID Quantique's commercial QKD system Clavis2. We scrutinize this implementation for security problems, and show that designing a hack-proof pulse-energy-measuring detector is far from trivial. Indeed the first implementation has three serious flaws confirmed experimentally, each of which may be exploited in a cleverly constructed Trojan-horse attack. We discuss requirements for a loophole-free implementation of the monitoring detector.
description: 15 pages, 13 figures, Improved Introduction and Conclusion, Published in Physical Review A, Accepted at QCrypt 2014, 4th international conference on quantum cryptography, September 1-5, 2014 in Paris, France http://2014.qcrypt.net/program/
Facilitators of Transforming Primary Care: A Look Under the Hood at Practice Leadership
Creators: name: Mitchell, M.
name: Ward, K.
name: Qaqish, B.
name: Lee, S.-Y. D.
name: Wise, A.
name: Halladay, J. R.
name: Reiter, K.
name: Donahue, K. E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: This study examined how characteristics of practice leadership affect the change process in a statewide initiative to improve the quality of diabetes and asthma care.
Performing Pad Thai
Creators: name: Domrongchai, Alexandra
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: “Performing Pad Thai” examines the ways in which American political, economic, and cultural influence in Thailand has affected Thai cuisine. Through a historical overview, material critical contexts, oral history interviews, and a cookbook, this paper argues that Pad Thai, Thailand’s national dish, constitutes performances of fabricated authenticity in Thai nation-building and American neocolonialism that deeply impact the experiences and identities of Thai Americans. This study establishes the historical emergence of the modern-day ‘friendship’ between Thailand and the United States within the process of nation-building through the 20th century that led to Thailand becoming a food global power through gastrodiplomacy by the 21st century. Considering gastrodiplomacy’s material and cultural inception of Pad Thai in America, this paper then considers how performances of authenticity and authority construct a global perception of Thainess. Turning to the interpersonal impacts of these performances of authenticity on Thai Americans, this study includes fieldwork and oral history interviews with Thai restaurant owners that share how food plays an important role in Thai American identity formation and community knowledge. Finally, this paper includes a Thai American cookbook that re-centers Thai food’s communal meanings for Thai Americans, providing an alternative to orientalist narratives of Thai food that dominate American cookbooks and appetites.
Additional file 1 of Does Hypoxia and Stress Erythropoiesis Compromise Cardiac Function in Healthy Adults? A Randomized Trial
Creators: name: Arrebola-Moreno, Antonio L.
name: Casuso, Rafael A.
name: Bejder, Jacob
name: Bonne, Thomas Christian
name: Breenfeldt Andersen, Andreas
name: Aragón-Vela, Jerónimo
name: Nordsborg, Nikolai B.
name: Huertas, Jesús R.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Developmental Biology

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary Figure 1. Untwist velocity in response to mild altitude and rHuEPO injections. p values denotes post hoc test (Student´s t) analysis following a significant 2 (Groups) x 2 (Time) repeated measures ANOVA, within subject design corrected and corrected for Gender (p = 0.039 see main text).
Not Cohesive in the Slightest
Creators: name: Cohen-Vogel, Noah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: A selection of content I've created during the 2021-2022 term.

"Shadowed Things That Lurk Out of Sight" is a hypertext fiction piece created using the Twine software. It can be accessed by opening the attached html file in your browser, or by double-clicking the link in the thesis document itself.

"My Friends the Worms (No, God, That Sounds Stupid, This Isn't an Elementary School Science Report)" is a short story written in stream-of-consciousness style.

"Diluvian Elegy" is the rough beginning to a post-apocalyptic novel I've developed over the course of the term. I have workshopped the setting and story across multiple classes since writing the pages included here, so any future version will have undergone significant changes by the time it sees an editor, but I wanted to attach an early draft for posterity.
Computational Optimization of a Drafter for Spunbonding Polypropylene-Based Filaments
Creators: Mohajer, Behrang
Ataei, Mohammadmehdi
Bussmann, Markus
Park, Chul B.
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 2022

Conference Abstract. Part of the Proceedings of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering International Congress 2022.
Quantum Search with Multiple Walk Steps per Oracle Query
Creators: name: Wong, Thomas G.
name: Ambainis, Andris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We identify a key difference between quantum search by discrete- and continuous-time quantum walks: a discrete-time walk typically performs one walk step per oracle query, whereas a continuous-time walk can effectively perform multiple walk steps per query while only counting query time. As a result, we show that continuous-time quantum walks can outperform their discrete-time counterparts, even though both achieve quadratic speedups over their corresponding classical random walks. To provide greater equity, we allow the discrete-time quantum walk to also take multiple walk steps per oracle query while only counting queries. Then it matches the continuous-time algorithm's runtime, but such that it is a cubic speedup over its corresponding classical random walk. This yields the first example of a greater-than-quadratic speedup for quantum search over its corresponding classical random walk.
description: 10 pages, 5 figures
Automated navigation of nanoparticles through mazes using computer-generated holography
Creators: name: Wenbo Liu
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Medicinal drugs are typically delivered in the human body by passive carriers injected into the blood stream in the hope that some of these carriers will reach the target area.  Can drug carriers be directed to navigate to their targets? One way to manipulate drug carriers or other colloidal particles remotely is by using optical tweezers, which can trap and move such particles in arbitrary directions. However, manually manipulating drug carriers through complicated blood vessel networks using optical tweezers is not practical. We need a way to 1) plan the path for the carriers (given the capillary networks) and 2) make the carriers travel along the path.

This thesis offers a way to do both. It uses a maze to model microfluidic environments such as capillary networks and finds the shortest path through the maze using a breadth-first search algorithm. It then converts the path to a hologram and uses holographic optical tweezers to drive colloidal particles from the start to finish.
Natural History of Practice Transformation: Development and Initial Testing of an Outcomes-Based Model
Creators: name: Plescia, M.
name: Donahue, K. E.
name: Lefebvre, A.
name: Newton, W. P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Practice transformation is the cornerstone of the future of family medicine and health care reform, but little is known about how the process occurs. We sought to develop and test a model of the natural history of practice transformation.
title: Refocusing gender equality on gender justice: a critique of the politics of gender equality interpretation in the field of international development assistance
Creators: name: Forti, Sarah
Publisher: name: University of Kent
Year: 2022

description: ‘Refocusing Gender Equality on Gender Justice: A Critique of the Politics of Gender Equality Interpretation in the Field of International Development Assistance’ is a critical analysis of the interpretation of gender equality in the field of EDA. The vari­ous interpretations examined are extracted from key spheres composing the field of IDA, such as the theory, international legislation and international policy, donor and national policy and the programme sphere at field level. These reveal the prevalence of certain underpinning ideological perspectives and the absence of others. The thesis discusses the significance and implication of using hegemonic identity politics per­spectives including Third Worldist, anti-essentialist, difference, cultural relativist and postcolonialist perspectives in the interpretation of gender equality in IDA. One of the key implications discussed is the eclipse of other relevant focuses such as redis­tribution, the universality of gender inequalities and violations of women’s human rights. The thesis demonstrates that such eclipses form a recurrent pattern and have had consequences in the practice of IDA and its response and impact at programme level in terms of effectively addressing inequalities and injustices facing women. The research ultimately draws key orientations to refocus gender equality, beyond the politics of identity, towards gender justice in the field of IDA.
Review of Causal Average Treatment Effect and Treatment Heterogeneity Estimation with Non-finite Action
Creators: name: Yating Zou
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: There is an increasing appeal in answering causal questions, and this interest has drawn perspectives from many related areas. However, estimation of the Average Treatment Effect (ATE) and the Conditional Average Treatment Effect (CATE) with continuous, or non-finite, action is still a relatively new setup with its specific challenges, including extra difficulty in the estimation of the Generalized Propensity Score (GPS), the diagnostics of covariate balancing, and the pathwise non-differentiability of the functional for ATE. This thesis, therefore, provides a review of recent advances on this topic. The main objectives are to (1) identify and coalesce recent related research, (2) provide a general introduction to methods such as machine learning, semi-parametric estimation, and optimization while discussing specific methods, and (3) outline the connections between existing methods of ATE and CATE estimation so that readers can better navigate themselves in this fast-expanding field.
Peer Support for Diabetes Management in Primary Care and Community Settings in Anhui Province, China
Creators: name: Tanasugarn, C.
name: Fisher, E. B.
name: Zhong, X.
name: Wang, Z.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: We evaluated a peer leader–support program (PLSP) for diabetes self-management in China in terms of acceptability and feasibility; implementation; perceived advantages; disadvantages and barriers; reach and recruitment; effectiveness in terms of diabetes knowledge and clinical impacts; adoption; and sustainability.
Measurement-device-independent quantum random number generation over 23 Mbps with imperfect single-photon sources
Creators: name: Nie, You-Qi
name: Zhou, Hongyi
name: Bai, Bing
name: Xu, Qi
name: Ma, Xiongfeng
name: Zhang, Jun
name: Pan, Jian-Wei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum randomness relies heavily on the accurate characterization of the generator implementation, where the device imperfection or inaccurate characterization can lead to incorrect entropy estimation and practical bias, significantly affecting the reliability of the generated randomness. Measurement-device-independent (MDI) quantum random number generation (QRNG) endeavors to produce certified randomness, utilizing uncharacterized and untrusted measurement devices that are vulnerable to numerous attack schemes targeting measurement loopholes. However, existing implementations have shown insufficient performance thus far. Here, we propose a high-speed MDI-QRNG scheme based on a robust measurement tomography approach against the imperfection of single-photon sources. Compared with the conventional approach, the decoy-state method is introduced to obtain more accurate tomography results and a tighter lower bound of randomness. Finally, by using a high-speed time-bin encoding system, we experimentally demonstrated the scheme and obtained a reliable min-entropy lower bound of $7.37 \times 10^{-2}$ bits per pulse, corresponding to a generation rate over 23 Mbps, which substantially outperforms the existing realizations and makes a record in discrete-variable semi-device-independent QRNGs.
description: 20 pages, 9 figures, including appendixes. Accepted for publication in Quantum Science and Technology
The effectiveness of policy on consumer choices for private road passenger transport emissions reductions in six major economies
Creators: name: Mercure, J. -F.
name: Lam, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The effectiveness of fiscal policy to influence vehicle purchases for emissions reductions in private passenger road transport depends on its ability to incentivise consumers to make choices oriented towards lower emissions vehicles. However, car purchase choices are known to be strongly socially determined, and this sector is highly diverse due to significant socio-economic differences between consumer groups. Here, we present a comprehensive dataset and analysis of the structure of the 2012 private passenger vehicle fleet-years in six major economies across the World (UK, USA, China, India, Japan and Brazil) in terms of price, engine size and emissions distributions. We argue that choices and aggregate elasticities of substitution can be predicted using this data, enabling to evaluate the effectiveness of potential fiscal and technological change policies on fleet-year emissions reductions. We provide tools to do so based on the distributive structure of prices and emissions in segments of a diverse market, both for conventional as well as unconventional engine technologies. We find that markets differ significantly between nations, and that correlations between engine sizes, emissions and prices exist strongly in some markets and not strongly in others. We furthermore find that markets for unconventional engine technologies have patchy coverages of varying levels. These findings are interpreted in terms of policy strategy.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables + 8 pages Supplementary Information included, to appear in this final form in Environmental Research Letters