cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Stories of Cambodian Angkuoch: Documenting a rare musical instrument, its makers and players
Creators: name: Grant, Catherine
name: Song, Seng
name: Say, Tola
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 190409 Musicology and Ethnomusicology
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: Although the musical instrument popularly known as the “Jew’s Harp” is found in many countries around the world, the Cambodian version is unique. Called Angkuoch in Khmer, it is a precious part of Cambodia’s living cultural heritage. Nowadays, Angkuoch and its associated practices are in need of urgent safeguarding. Social and cultural shifts in Cambodia over the last half-century, including the devastation of the Khmer Rouge era in the 1970s, mean that only a handful of people still know how to make and play Angkuoch. Supported by the Endangered Material Knowledge Program of the British Museum (UK) and by UNESCO (Cambodia), in early 2020 Catherine Grant (Griffith University, Australia), Seng Song (Cambodian Living Arts), and Patrick Kersale (Cambodian Living Arts) documented Angkuoch and Angkuoch-making as it is practised in Siem Reap Province in northern Cambodia. Our aim was to help preserve this rich knowledge for the benefit and pleasure of present and future generations. This 24-page print and online multimedia resource, designed for a public audience and the communities and artists who participated in the project, presents the key project findings. A suite of further project materials (including journal article, textbook chapter, blog posts) provides context.
Long term behaviour of locally interacting birth-and-death processes
Creators: name: Shcherbakov, Vadim
name: Volkov, Stanislav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper we study long-term evolution of a finite system of locally interacting birth-and-death processes labelled by vertices of a finite connected graph. A detailed description of the asymptotic behaviour is obtained in the case of both constant vertex degree graphs and star graphs. The model is motivated by modelling interactions between populations and is related to interacting particle systems, Gibbs models with unbounded spins, as well as urn models with interaction.
description: 26 pages, 2 figures
Mid Continent Omnibus Survey #5-0
Creators: name: Mid Continent Surveys
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Most important problem (1); President Richard Nixon job performance (1); President Nixon handling Vietnam (1); Vietnam troop withdrawal (2); Laotian-Cambodian military aid (1); Southeast Asia security importance (1); defense spending (2); South Korea military personnel (2); Europe military personnel (1); Earth Day meetings (1); pollution concern (1); teacher strikes (1).
Astrocyte-Specific Overexpression of Insulin-Like Growth Factor-1 Protects Hippocampal Neurons and Reduces Behavioral Deficits following Traumatic Brain Injury in Mice
Creators: name: D’Ercole, A. Joseph
name: Ye, Ping
name: Brelsfoard, Jennifer M.
name: Carlson, Shaun W.
name: Madathil, Sindhu K.
name: Saatman, Kathryn E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Traumatic brain injury (TBI) survivors often suffer from long-lasting cognitive impairment that stems from hippocampal injury. Systemic administration of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1), a polypeptide growth factor known to play vital roles in neuronal survival, has been shown to attenuate posttraumatic cognitive and motor dysfunction. However, its neuroprotective effects in TBI have not been examined. To this end, moderate or severe contusion brain injury was induced in mice with conditional (postnatal) overexpression of IGF-1 using the controlled cortical impact (CCI) injury model. CCI brain injury produces robust reactive astrocytosis in regions of neuronal damage such as the hippocampus. We exploited this regional astrocytosis by linking expression of hIGF-1 to the astrocyte-specific glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) promoter, effectively targeting IGF-1 delivery to vulnerable neurons. Following brain injury, IGF-1Tg mice exhibited a progressive increase in hippocampal IGF-1 levels which was coupled with enhanced hippocampal reactive astrocytosis and significantly greater GFAP levels relative to WT mice. IGF-1 overexpression stimulated Akt phosphorylation and reduced acute (1 and 3d) hippocampal neurodegeneration, culminating in greater neuron survival at 10d after CCI injury. Hippocampal neuroprotection achieved by IGF-1 overexpression was accompanied by improved motor and cognitive function in brain-injured mice. These data provide strong support for the therapeutic efficacy of increased brain levels of IGF-1 in the setting of TBI.
Additional file 1 of Dense phenotyping from electronic health records enables machine learning-based prediction of preterm birth
Creators: name: Abraham, Abin
name: Le, Brian
name: Kosti, Idit
name: Straub, Peter
name: Velez-Edwards, Digna R.
name: Davis, Lea K.
name: Newton, J. M.
name: Muglia, Louis J.
name: Rokas, Antonis
name: Bejan, Cosmin A.
name: Sirota, Marina
name: Capra, John A.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary figures, tables, and methods.
A Changepoint Detection Method for Profile Variance
Creators: name: Geneus, Vladimir J.
name: Chicken, Eric
name: Cuevas, Jordan
name: Pignatiello, Joseph J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: 62L12, 62G08

description: A wavelet-based changepoint method is proposed that determines when the variability of the noise in a sequence of functional profiles goes out-of-control from a known, fixed value. The functional portion of the profiles are allowed to come from a large class of functions and may vary from profile to profile. The proposed method makes use of the orthogonal properties of wavelet projections to accurately and efficiently monitor the level of noise from one profile to the next. Several alternative implementations of the estimator are compared on a variety of conditions, including allowing the wavelet noise subspace to be substantially contaminated by the profile's functional structure. The proposed method is shown to be very efficient at detecting when the variability has changed through an extensive simulation study.
Living Heritage: The Artists of Cambodian Chapei
Creators: name: Grant, Catherine
name: Faulkner, Heather
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 190503 Lens-based Practice
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)
subject: 190409 Musicology and Ethnomusicology

description: Living Heritage: The Artists of Cambodian Chapei is a 76-page photo-documentary book representing a collaboration between the Community of Living Chapei (Phnom Penh), NGO Cambodian Living Arts (Phnom Penh), and Griffith University. Living Heritage, written for a general readership, is written in Khmer and English, with colour photographs of chapei masters, teachers, and learners. Conceived in the context of the 2016 inscription of Chapei to UNESCO's List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in Need of Urgent Safeguarding, with support from the Cambodian Ministry for Culture and Fine Arts, this book is a cultural and educational resource that demonstrates the richness and value of the musical instrument chapei dong weng and its musicians in contemporary Cambodia. The book makes an important contribution to the documentation of this living tradition. The project team comprises Cambodian and international artists and scholars. Catherine Grant (GU) authored the English text; So Phina (Women Writers' Committee at PEN Cambodia / CLA) translated the Khmer text; Heather Faulkner (GU) contributed the photographs.
Attenuation of Chondrogenic Transformation in Vascular Smooth Muscle by Dietary Quercetin in the MGP-Deficient Mouse Model
Creators: name: Beazley, Kelly E.
name: Lima, Florence
name: Borras, Teresa
name: Nurminskaya, Maria
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Cartilaginous metaplasia of vascular smooth muscle (VSM) is characteristic for arterial calcification in diabetes and uremia and in the background of genetic alterations in matrix Gla protein (MGP). A better understanding of the molecular details of this process is critical for the development of novel therapeutic approaches to VSM transformation and arterial calcification.
The Minnesota Poll # 331
Creators: name: Minneapolis Tribune
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Minnesota residency (1); quality of life ratings (5); Minnesota article in Time Magazine (5); approval of various public figures (16); most important problems (6); farm families (1); farmer salary (1); farm price supports (4); starvation (3); stockpiling food (2); United States food production efficiency (4); preferred lifestyle (1); Congress job performance (1); Congress-president relations (2); raising minimum wage (3); Henry Kissinger job performance (1); surrendering White House tapes (5); presidential candidate preferences (3); Spiro Agnew political kickbacks (1); bicycling habits (5); bad time to buy (8); stolen goods (2); interest in football (4); football television blackouts (2); Vikings stadium (3); women's movement (3); Richard Nixon job performance (4).
Baumaterialien für Städte im Klimawandel. Ein Materialkatalog mit Empfehlungen
Creators: name: Hoffmann, Caroline
Publisher: name: Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz FHNW
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materialien
subject: Hitzeinseleffekt
subject: Katalog
subject: 624 - Ingenieurbau und Umwelttechnik

description: Die gewählten Baumaterialien haben Auswirkungen auf das städtische Mikroklima. Zusätzlich beeinflusst die Materialisierung die Umwelt z.B. im Hinblick auf die Versickerungsfähigkeit, die Akustik oder die Blendung. Die Kurzpräsentation gibt Einblick in den Katalog, den derzeitigen Arbeitsstand und macht Empfehlungen zur Materialienwahl.
NBC News/Wall Street Journal Poll: America's Future/2012 Presidential Election/Tucson Shootings
Creators: name: NBC News
name: Wall Street Journal
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Direction of country (3); President Barack Obama job performance (1); Obama handling economy (1); Obama handling Afghanistan (1); Opinion of public figures/organizations (8); America declining (1); future of America (2); Obama's setbacks (1); Republicans bringing right change (1); Obama/Republicans dealing with each other (2); issue to be addressed in State of the Union speech (1); Obama's ideology (1); confidence in American institutions (12); partisanship (1); 2012 Republican nominees for president (1); Mike Huckabee vs. Obama (1); Newt Gingrich vs. Obama (1); Tea Party supporter (1); Tea Party supporter or Republican (1); leading nation in 20 years (1); gun control laws (1); economic outlook (1); job security (1); Obama administration's effect on economic improvement (1); economic improvement in 2010 (1); most important economic issue (1); reducing federal budget deficit (2); government regulations (1); health care plan (1); repealing and eliminating health care plan (1); situation in Afghanistan (1); reducing troops in Afghanistan (1); leaving Afghanistan with stable government (1); race relations (1); changing citizenship laws (1); political rhetoric used by leaders contributing to violent incidents (1); Obama handling Tucson shooting of Congress member (1); contributors to Tucson shooting (1); main news source (1); listing to political call-in shows (1); profile on social networking site (1).
Rotomagnetic couplings influence on the magnetic properties of antiferrodistortive antiferromagnets
Creators: name: Eliseev, Eugene A.
name: Glinchuk, Maya D.
name: Gopalan, Venkatraman
name: Morozovska, Anna N.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Within the framework of Landau-Ginzburg-Devonshire (LGD) phenomenological theory we consider the possibility to control properties of paraelectric antiferromagnets via biquadratic rotomagnetic coupling with and without external magnetic and electric field application. We use EuTiO3 as a prototype with relatively well-known material parameters. Surprisingly strong influence of this coupling practically on all the properties without external fields was obtained in the temperature region with coexistence of antiferromagnetic and antiferrodistorted phases i.e. in multiferroic state. In particular, the observed Neel temperature TN (5.5 K) was shown to be defined by rotomagnetic coupling, while without this coupling TN appeared to be much higher (26 K). For small or high enough rotomagnetic coupling constant value the antiferromagnetic phase transition order appeared to be the second or the first order respectively. The essential influence of rotomagnetic coupling on the form and value of magnetic and dielectric permittivity was also forecasted. The rotomagnetic coupling along with rotoelectric one opens the additional way to control the form of the phase diagrams by application of external magnetic or electric field. The critical value of the electric field (for antiferromagnetic to ferromagnetic phase transition) appeared essentially smaller than the one calculated without rotomagnetic coupling that can be important for applications.
description: 19 pages, 7 figures, 1 table and supplement
Effect of the sterile insect technique (SIT) on predator-prey interactions in Queensland fruit fly, Bactrocera tryoni (Diptera: Tephritidae)
Creators: name: Rathnayake, Darshana N.
Publisher: name: Macquarie University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other education not elsewhere classified

description: Queensland fruit fly (Q-fly) is a serious horticultural pest known to infest over hundreds of economically important fruits and vegetables in Australia. Sterile insect technique (SIT) is currently a wide-spread method to control its wild population. Domestication and irradiation of laboratory reared flies are the two key steps in SIT, however, these processes are likely to affect the performance of SIT released flies negatively. High-density mass rearing is expected to reduce the flies’ awareness of their surroundings and irradiation lowers activity, emergence, flight ability and survival. Previous work suggests that Q-flies (including SIT released flies) are targeted by many predators in the field. These circumstances are concerning as SIT released flies are predicted to be predated more than wild counterparts. However, to date no detailed study has been conducted to test the influence of natural predators on Q-fly survival and reproduction, including SIT released flies. Therefore, my thesis investigated the effect of natural predators on Q-fly survival and reproduction. My study offers an evaluation for current SIT control, emphasising the effect of domestication and irradiation on released fly behaviour against their natural predators. My thesis research confirmed that the together with SIT, natural predators play a significant role in controlling wild Q-fly populations through direct (predation) and indirect (lowering reproduction) effects. Interestingly, the domestication and irradiation process did not detrimentally affect the SIT released fly behaviour against their natural predators. However, my results confirmed that domestication affects behaviour, including mating behaviour, which may need to be further considered to improve the success of the SIT process. Overall, the results in this thesis suggest that the SIT process does not affect the predator-prey interaction in Q-flies, and released sterile males are not at a disadvantage when they are exposed to predators compared to wild counterparts. However, SIT released flies may differ in other aspects such as reproductive behaviour, which may have direct consequences on the effectiveness and efficiency of current Q-fly control measures. Therefore, further studies are recommended to identify the underlying mechanisms of these results, thereby improving SIT control of this pest.
Autonomic Substrates of the Response to Pups in Male Prairie Voles
Creators: name: Pournajafi-Nazarloo, Hossein
name: Grippo, Angela J.
name: Carter, C. Sue
name: Paredes, Jamespaul
name: Yee, Jason R.
name: Porges, Stephen W.
name: Lewis, Gregory F.
name: Kenkel, William M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Caregiving by nonparents (alloparenting) and fathers is a defining aspect of human social behavior, yet this phenomenon is rare among mammals. Male prairie voles (Microtus ochrogaster) spontaneously exhibit high levels of alloparental care, even in the absence of reproductive experience. In previous studies, exposure to a pup was selectively associated with increased activity in oxytocin and vasopressin neurons along with decreased plasma corticosterone. In the present study, physiological, pharmacological and neuroanatomical methods were used to explore the autonomic and behavioral consequences of exposing male prairie voles to a pup. Reproductively naïve, adult male prairie voles were implanted with radiotransmitters used for recording ECG, temperature and activity. Males responded with a sustained increase in heart-rate during pup exposure. This prolonged increase in heart rate was not explained by novelty, locomotion or thermoregulation. Although heart rate was elevated during pup exposure, respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) did not differ between these males and males exposed to control stimuli indicating that vagal inhibition of the heart was maintained. Blockade of beta-adrenergic receptors with atenolol abolished the pup-induced heart rate increase, implicating sympathetic activity in the pup-induced increase in heart rate. Blockade of vagal input to the heart delayed the males’ approach to the pup. Increased activity in brainstem autonomic regulatory nuclei was also observed in males exposed to pups. Together, these findings suggest that exposure to a pup activates both vagal and sympathetic systems. This unique physiological state (i.e. increased sympathetic excitation of the heart, while maintaining some vagal cardiac tone) associated with male caregiving behavior may allow males to both nurture and protect infants.
BCL9 and C9orf5 Are Associated with Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia: Meta-Analysis of Two Genome-Wide Association Studies
Creators: name: Briones, David
name: Villla, Erika Cynthia
name: Posada, Yolanda
name: Arana, Tania Bedard
name: Aragam, Nagesh
name: Xu, Chun
name: Su, Brenda Bin
name: Mao, ChunXiang
name: Camarillo, Cynthia
name: Li, Xia
name: Wang, Liang
name: Wang, KeSheng
name: Cruz, Grace
name: Escamilla, Michael A.
name: Petty, Leonora
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Schizophrenia is a chronic and debilitating psychiatric condition affecting slightly more than 1% of the population worldwide and it is a multifactorial disorder with a high degree of heritability (80%) based on family and twin studies. Increasing lines of evidence suggest intermediate phenotypes/endophenotypes are more associated with causes of the disease and are less genetically complex than the broader disease spectrum. Negative symptoms in schizophrenia are attractive intermediate phenotypes based on their clinical and treatment response features. Therefore, our objective was to identify genetic variants underlying the negative symptoms of schizophrenia by analyzing two genome-wide association (GWA) data sets consisting of a total of 1,774 European-American patients and 2,726 controls. Logistic regression analysis of negative symptoms as a binary trait (adjusted for age and sex) was performed using PLINK. For meta-analysis of two datasets, the fixed-effect model in PLINK was applied. Through meta-analysis we identified 25 single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) associated with negative symptoms with p<5×10−5. Especially we detected five SNPs in the first two genes/loci strongly associated with negative symptoms of schizophrenia (Pmeta-analysis<6.22×10−6), which included three SNPs in the BCL9 gene: rs583583 showed the strongest association at a Pmeta-analysis of 6.00×10−7 and two SNPs in the C9orf5 (the top SNP is rs643410 with a p = 1.29 ×10−6). Through meta-analysis, we identified several additional negative symptoms associated genes (ST3GAL1, RNF144, CTNNA3 and ZNF385D). This is the first report of the common variants influencing negative symptoms of schizophrenia. These results provide direct evidence of using of negative symptoms as an intermediate phenotype to dissect the complex genetics of schizophrenia. However, additional studies are warranted to examine the underlying mechanisms of these disease-associated SNPs in these genes.
NORC Survey # 1952-0333: Foreign Affairs
Creators: name: NORC
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2019

description: Think people voted for Eisenhower because of foreign/domestic situation (1); approve/disapprove of President Truman's ideas about foreign affairs (1); approve/disapprove of Eisenhower's ideas about foreign affairs (2); Eisenhower as president (4); war in Korea has/has not been worth fighting (1); truce talks in Korea (1); possibility of war with Russia (2); Iran (2); chance that Russia will change policy and make real peace with us during next few years (2); think it would be good/bad idea for U.S. and western European allies to share atomic energy secrets and work as team on atomic energy matters (1); people in this country have been asked to make too many/not enough/right amount of sacrifices to support defense program (1); allowing Europeans to enter U.S. and become citizens (3); how important for U.S. to cooperate closely with certain countries (4); tariffs (6); businessmen, workers, farmers hurt by competition of foreign goods being sold here (3); public opinion polls (2).
Dynamical diffusion and renormalization group equation for the Fermi velocity in doped graphene
Creators: name: Ardenghi, Juan Sebastian
name: Bechthold, Pablo
name: Jasen, Paula
name: Gonzalez, Estela
name: Juan, Alfredo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The aim of this work is to study the electron transport in graphene with impurities by introducing a generalization of linear response theory for linear dispersion relations and spinor wave functions. Current response and density response functions are derived and computed in the Boltzmann limit, showing that in the former case, a minimum conductivity appears in the no-disorder limit. In turn, from the generalization of both functions, an exact relation can be obtained that relates both. Combining this result with the relation given by the continuity equation, it is possible to obtain general functional behavior of the diffusion pole. Finally, a dynamical diffusion is computed in the quasistatic limit using the definition of relaxation function. A lower cutoff must be introduced to regularize infrared divergences, which allow us to obtain a full renormalization group equation for the Fermi velocity, which is solved up to order O(h^2).
description: 20 pages, 2 figures
National Opinion Research Center General Social Survey 1972-2012--Version 3 (July, 2013)
Creators: name: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: The 1972-2012 GSS cumulative data file for the National Opinion Research Center's General Social Surveys (GSS) is now available from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research via Roper Express and CD-ROM. The General Social Survey brings the rich coverage of one of the nation's longest running surveys of social, cultural and political indicators available today right to your desktop. Encompassing 40 years of national survey data in one comprehensive data file. An SPSS/PASW portable system file makes it even more convenient for students and faculty to gain full access to this rich data resource. Students will find the GSS a rich resource for term papers, theses, and dissertations. Teachers can use it in courses that teach social science as an empirical science. The newly released cumulative data file contains individual response coding for 57,061 respondents and 5548 variables.
Additional file 1 of Kernel density estimation of conditional distributions to detect responses in satellite tag data
Creators: name: Hewitt, Joshua
name: Gelfand, Alan E.
name: Quick, Nicola J.
name: Cioffi, William R.
name: Southall, Brandon L.
name: DeRuiter, Stacy L.
name: Schick, Robert S.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biotechnology
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1 Additional figures and tables.
Beta Cell 5′-Shifted isomiRs Are Candidate Regulatory Hubs in Type 2 Diabetes
Creators: name: Baran-Gale, Jeanette
name: Fannin, Emily E.
name: Kurtz, C. Lisa
name: Sethupathy, Praveen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Next-generation deep sequencing of small RNAs has unveiled the complexity of the microRNA (miRNA) transcriptome, which is in large part due to the diversity of miRNA sequence variants (“isomiRs”). Changes to a miRNA’s seed sequence (nucleotides 2–8), including shifted start positions, can redirect targeting to a dramatically different set of RNAs and alter biological function. We performed deep sequencing of small RNA from mouse insulinoma (MIN6) cells (widely used as a surrogate for the study of pancreatic beta cells) and developed a bioinformatic analysis pipeline to profile isomiR diversity. Additionally, we applied the pipeline to recently published small RNA-seq data from primary human beta cells and whole islets and compared the miRNA profiles with that of MIN6. We found that: (1) the miRNA expression profile in MIN6 cells is highly correlated with those of primary human beta cells and whole islets; (2) miRNA loci can generate multiple highly expressed isomiRs with different 5′-start positions (5′-isomiRs); (3) isomiRs with shifted start positions (5′-shifted isomiRs) are highly expressed, and can be as abundant as their unshifted counterparts (5′-reference miRNAs). Finally, we identified 10 beta cell miRNA families as candidate regulatory hubs in a type 2 diabetes (T2D) gene network. The most significant candidate hub was miR-29, which we demonstrated regulates the mRNA levels of several genes critical to beta cell function and implicated in T2D. Three of the candidate miRNA hubs were novel 5′-shifted isomiRs: miR-375+1, miR-375-1 and miR-183-5p+1. We showed by in silico target prediction and in vitro transfection studies that both miR-375+1 and miR-375-1 are likely to target an overlapping, but distinct suite of beta cell genes compared to canonical miR-375. In summary, this study characterizes the isomiR profile in beta cells for the first time, and also highlights the potential functional relevance of 5′-shifted isomiRs to T2D.
National Opinion Research Center General Social Survey 1972-2014
Creators: name: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: The 1972-2014 GSS cumulative data file for the National Opinion Research Center's General Social Surveys (GSS) is now available from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research via Roper Express. The General Social Survey is one of the nation's longest running surveys of social, cultural and political indicators available today. Encompassing 42 years of national survey data in one comprehensive data file. The newly released cumulative data file contains individual response coding for 59,599 respondents and 5597 variables.
National Opinion Research Center General Social Survey 1972-2016
Creators: name: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: The 1972-2016 GSS cumulative data file for the National Opinion Research Center's General Social Surveys (GSS) is now available from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research via Roper Express. The General Social Survey is one of the nation's longest running surveys of social, cultural and political indicators available today. Encompassing 44 years of national survey data in one comprehensive data file. The newly released cumulative data file contains individual response coding for 62466 respondents and 5895 variables.
Adiabatic passage for three-dimensional entanglement generation through quantum Zeno dynamics
Creators: name: Liang, Yan
name: Su, Shi-Lei
name: Wu, Qi-Cheng
name: Ji, Xin
name: Zhang, Shou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose an adiabatic passage approach to generate two atoms three- dimensional entanglement with the help of quantum Zeno dynamics in a time- dependent interacting field. The atoms are trapped in two spatially separated cavi- ties connected by a fiber, so that the individual addressing is needless. Because the scheme is based on the resonant interaction, the time required to generate entangle- ment is greatly shortened. Since the fields remain in vacuum state and all the atoms are in the ground states, the losses due to the excitation of photons and the spon- taneous transition of atoms are suppressed efficiently compared with the dispersive protocols. Numerical simulation results show that the scheme is robust against the decoherences caused by the cavity decay and atomic spontaneous emission. Addi- tionally, the scheme can be generalized to generate N-atom three-dimensional en- tanglement and high-dimensional entanglement for two spatially separated atoms.
Brain Responses to Words in 2-Year-Olds with Autism Predict Developmental Outcomes at Age 6
Creators: name: Padden, Denise
name: Dawson, Geraldine
name: Munson, Jeffrey
name: Estes, Annette
name: Kuhl, Patricia K.
name: Coffey-Corina, Sharon
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a developmental disability that affects social behavior and language acquisition. ASD exhibits great variability in outcomes, with some individuals remaining nonverbal and others exhibiting average or above average function. Cognitive ability contributes to heterogeneity in autism and serves as a modest predictor of later function. We show that a brain measure (event-related potentials, ERPs) of word processing in children with ASD, assessed at the age of 2 years (N = 24), is a broad and robust predictor of receptive language, cognitive ability, and adaptive behavior at ages 4 and 6 years, regardless of the form of intensive clinical treatment during the intervening years. The predictive strength of this brain measure increases over time, and exceeds the predictive strength of a measure of cognitive ability, used here for comparison. These findings have theoretical implications and may eventually lead to neural measures that allow early prediction of developmental outcomes as well as more individually tailored clinical interventions, with the potential for greater effectiveness in treating children with ASD.
Exploring Embodied Sonic Meditation through time and space
Creators: name: Ferguson, John
name: Hayes, Lauren
name: Wu, Jiayue
Publisher: name: Griffith University
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 190407 Music Performance
subject: FOS: Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music)

description: “Exploring Embodied Sonic Meditation through time and space” was premiered as part of the International Conference on Movement and Computing (MOCO) at Arizona State University (ASU) in 2019. This project is a collaboration with Dr. Jiayue Cecilia Wu (University of Colorado) and Dr. Lauren Hayes (ASU). Digitally generated video is displayed using floor-scale projectors that encapsulate the performers and the audience i.e. all humans sit within the frame of the video feed and additional screens surround the performance space. This work was developed specifically for the 8.2 Meyer surround-sound speaker system and video projection capabilities of the iStage at ASU. This project artistically explores new ways of using human movement data to manipulate auditory and visual feedback in real-time in a group performance. Three different digital musical instruments/audio-visual systems are implemented using body-sensing/movement technology and body-audio-visual mapping strategies. The collaborative performance initiates a dialogue between eastern and western media artists who design and use their own technologies and artistic tools. Through this performance, we explore how individual artists and their systems can work as a whole under diverse cultural backgrounds through their gestures and music expressions. The projections on the floor (and some of the screens) were generated using a self-designed 3D system using Touch Designer software (metaballs in a particle system using attraction/repulsion forces to disturb cubes), these were controlled using a Nintendo Wii Remote. It’s a little hard to see what’s going on in the documentation at times so I’ve rendered out a silent 60-second demo as an example of what was happening visually. When physically present in the large space with projection on the specialist floor, the visual effect was that of the floor disintegrating and the perceiver being drawn inside an alternative digital space. Very hard to capture well (especially with a GoPro), but I’m very keen to work with floor-scale projections and further explore this area again.
Efficiency Evaluation Metrics for Wireless Intelligent Sensors Applications
Creators: name: Chakkor, Saad
name: Cheikh, El Ahmadi
name: Baghouri, Mostafa
name: Hajraoui, Abderrahmane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The metrology field has been progressed with the appearance of the wireless intelligent sensor systems providing more capabilities such as signal processing, remote multi-sensing fusion etc. This kind of devices is rapidly making their way into medical and industrial monitoring, collision avoidance, traffic control, automotive and others applications. However, numerous design challenges for wireless intelligent sensors systems are imposed to overcome the physical limitations in data traffic, such as system noise, real time communication, signal attenuation, response dynamics, power consumption, and effective conversion rates etc, especially for applications requiring specific performances. This paper analyzes the performance metrics of the mentioned sensing devices systems which stands for superior measurement, more accuracy and reliability. Study findings prescribe researchers, developers/ engineers and users to realizing an optimal sensing motes design strategy that offers operational advantages which can offer cost-effective solutions for an application.
description: 10 pages, 14 figures, 7 tables, journal research paper. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1409.6884
Dense Correspondences Across Scenes and Scales
Creators: name: Tau, Moria
name: Hassner, Tal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We seek a practical method for establishing dense correspondences between two images with similar content, but possibly different 3D scenes. One of the challenges in designing such a system is the local scale differences of objects appearing in the two images. Previous methods often considered only small subsets of image pixels; matching only pixels for which stable scales may be reliably estimated. More recently, others have considered dense correspondences, but with substantial costs associated with generating, storing and matching scale invariant descriptors. Our work here is motivated by the observation that pixels in the image have contexts -- the pixels around them -- which may be exploited in order to estimate local scales reliably and repeatably. Specifically, we make the following contributions. (i) We show that scales estimated in sparse interest points may be propagated to neighboring pixels where this information cannot be reliably determined. Doing so allows scale invariant descriptors to be extracted anywhere in the image, not just in detected interest points. (ii) We present three different means for propagating this information: using only the scales at detected interest points, using the underlying image information to guide the propagation of this information across each image, separately, and using both images simultaneously. Finally, (iii), we provide extensive results, both qualitative and quantitative, demonstrating that accurate dense correspondences can be obtained even between very different images, with little computational costs beyond those required by existing methods.
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Carcinoma Initiation via Rb Tumor Suppressor Inactivation: A Versatile Approach to Epithelial Subtype-Dependent Cancer Initiation in Diverse Tissues
Creators: name: O’Sullivan, T. Norene
name: Van Dyke, Terry
name: Fathalizadeh, Alisan
name: Martin, Philip L.
name: Haines, Diana C.
name: Song, Yurong
name: Pan, Wenqi
name: Lu, Lucy
name: Gilbert, Debra
name: Yang, Chunyu
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Carcinomas arise in a complex microenvironment consisting of multiple distinct epithelial lineages surrounded by a variety of stromal cell types. Understanding cancer etiologies requires evaluating the relationship among cell types during disease initiation and through progression. Genetically engineered mouse (GEM) models facilitate the prospective examination of early oncogenic events, which is not possible in humans. Since most solid tumors harbor aberrations in the RB network, we developed an inducible GEM approach for the establishment and assessment of carcinoma initiation in a diverse range of epithelial tissues and subtypes upon inactivation of RB-mediated tumor suppression (RB-TS). The system allows independent assessment of epithelial subtypes that express either cytokeratins (K) 18 or 19. By Cre-dependent expression of a protein that dominantly inactivates RB and functionally redundant proteins p107 and p130, neoplasia could be initiated in either K18 or K19 expressing cells of numerous tissues. By design, because only a single pathway aberration was engineered, carcinomas developed stochastically only after long latency. Hence, this system, which allows for directed cell type-specific carcinoma initiation, facilitates further definition of events that can progress neoplasms to aggressive cancers via engineered, carcinogen-induced and/or spontaneous evolution.
General Social Surveys: 1972-1987: Codebook for PC
Creators: name: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Government spending/taxes/economy(17); religious affiliation/attitudes (32); desired qualities in children(6); organizational membership(80); civil rights/race relations(14); crime and violence(20); sexual attitudes(11); confidence in institutions(13); personal/family finances (3); personal/family traumas(13); abortion(10); satisfaction with personal life(15); social networks(46); welfare(4); women's rights/role of women(2); attitudes toward work(10); voting behavior(6); smoking/ drinking/drugs(6); guns(4); general attitude toward the world and human nature(4); attitudes toward communism(7); extent of vocabulary(12). (FOR 1987).
Catabolism of Exogenous Lactate Reveals It as a Legitimate Metabolic Substrate in Breast Cancer
Creators: name: Landon, Chelsea D.
name: Dewhirst, Mark W.
name: Chi, Jen-Tsan
name: Kennedy, Kelly M.
name: Ribeiro, Anthony
name: Scarbrough, Peter M.
name: Sonveaux, Pierre
name: Schroeder, Thies
name: Richardson, Rachel
name: Yuan, Hong
name: Pizzo, Salvatore
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Lactate accumulation in tumors has been associated with metastases and poor overall survival in cancer patients. Lactate promotes angiogenesis and metastasis, providing rationale for understanding how it is processed by cells. The concentration of lactate in tumors is a balance between the amount produced, amount carried away by vasculature and if/how it is catabolized by aerobic tumor or stromal cells. We examined lactate metabolism in human normal and breast tumor cell lines and rat breast cancer: 1. at relevant concentrations, 2. under aerobic vs. hypoxic conditions, 3. under conditions of normo vs. hypoglucosis. We also compared the avidity of tumors for lactate vs. glucose and identified key lactate catabolites to reveal how breast cancer cells process it. Lactate was non-toxic at clinically relevant concentrations. It was taken up and catabolized to alanine and glutamate by all cell lines. Kinetic uptake rates of lactate in vivo surpassed that of glucose in R3230Ac mammary carcinomas. The uptake appeared specific to aerobic tumor regions, consistent with the proposed “metabolic symbiont” model; here lactate produced by hypoxic cells is used by aerobic cells. We investigated whether treatment with alpha-cyano-4-hydroxycinnamate (CHC), a MCT1 inhibitor, would kill cells in the presence of high lactate. Both 0.1 mM and 5 mM CHC prevented lactate uptake in R3230Ac cells at lactate concentrations at ≤20 mM but not at 40 mM. 0.1 mM CHC was well-tolerated by R3230Ac and MCF7 cells, but 5 mM CHC killed both cell lines ± lactate, indicating off-target effects. This study showed that breast cancer cells tolerate and use lactate at clinically relevant concentrations in vitro (± glucose) and in vivo. We provided additional support for the metabolic symbiont model and discovered that breast cells prevailingly take up and catabolize lactate, providing rationale for future studies on manipulation of lactate catabolism pathways for therapy.
Additional file 1 of Measuring COVID-19 health literacy: validation of the COVID-19 HL questionnaire in Spain
Creators: name: Falcón, María
name: Rodríguez-Blázquez, Carmen
name: Fernández-Gutiérrez, Martina
name: Romay-Barja, María
name: Bas-Sarmiento, Pilar
name: Forjaz, Maria João
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
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: Science Policy

description: Additional file 1. COVID-19 knowledge.
Transverse feedback linearization with partial information for single-input systems
Creators: name: Nielsen, Christopher
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper is motivated by the problem of asymptotically stabilizing invariant sets in the state space of control systems by means of output feedback. The sets considered are smooth embedded in submanifolds and the class of system is nonlinear, finite-dimensional, autonomous, deterministic, single-input and control-affine. Given an invariant set and a control system with fixed output, necessary and sufficient conditions are presented for feedback equivalence to a normal form that facilities the design of output feedback controllers that stabilize the set using existing design techniques.
General Social Surveys: 1987: Selected Variables
Creators: name: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Government spending/taxes/economy(17); religious affiliation/attitudes (32); desired qualities in children(6); organizational membership(80); civil rights/race relations(14); crime and violence(20); sexual attitudes(11); confidence in institutions(13); personal/family finances (3); personal/family traumas(13); abortion(10); satisfaction with personal life(15); social networks(46); welfare(4); women's rights/role of women(2); attitudes toward work(10); voting behavior(6); smoking/ drinking/drugs(6); guns(4); general attitude toward the world and human nature(4); attitudes toward communism(7); extent of vocabulary(12). (FOR 1987).
General Social Surveys: 1987 SPSS-PC+ Adaptation
Creators: name: National Science Foundation (NSF)
Publisher: name: Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Year: 2020

description: Government spending/taxes/economy(17); religious affiliation/attitudes (32); desired qualities in children(6); organizational membership(80); civil rights/race relations(14); crime and violence(20); sexual attitudes(11); confidence in institutions(13); personal/family finances (3); personal/family traumas(13); abortion(10); satisfaction with personal life(15); social networks(46); welfare(4); women's rights/role of women(2); attitudes toward work(10); voting behavior(6); smoking/ drinking/drugs(6); guns(4); general attitude toward the world and human nature(4); attitudes toward communism(7); extent of vocabulary(12). (FOR 1987).
UTILIZATION OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY (ICT) IN HOME ECONOMICS EDUCATION IN NIGERIAN SECONDARY SCHOOLS: PROSPECTS AND CHALLENGES (Journal of Teacher Education, JTE, 22(12), 2021)
Creators: name: Oluwagbemileke, Feranmi Boluwatife
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Educational technology and computing
Secondary education

description: The research reviewed the application of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as an innovative approach to Home Economics education, particularly in secondary schools. It explained the concepts of Home Economics Education and ICT. Also, it described the three forms of ICT applicable in Nigerian educational processes, namely, Radio and Television, Computer and Internet, and Teleconferencing. It equally enumerated and discussed the relevance of ICT in Nigerian secondary education as improving access to knowledge, improving the quality of education, assisting students with different styles of learning, transforming the learning environment to be learner-centered, and preparing the individual for the workplace. The review indicated that there are prospects of ICT usage in Home Economics education, notwithstanding the myriad of militating factors such as limited or poor infrastructure and facilities, electricity interruption, inadequate policies and manpower, poor financing, and poor perception among teachers and administrators. Possible strategies for combating the challenges were also suggested. Recommendations were made that the government, policymakers, Home Economics related associations, teachers, private schools owners, and students should play their respective roles in ensuring maximum use of ICT in Home Economics Education.