cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Reproductive health of young adults with physical disabilities in the U.S.
Creators: name: McRee, Annie-Laurie
name: Halpern, Carolyn Tucker
name: Haydon, Abigail A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Previous research shows reduced cervical and breast cancer screening among women with physical disabilities. However, other indicators of reproductive health have been largely ignored. We aimed to compare the reproductive health of young adults in the U.S. with and without physical disabilities in a nationally-representative sample.
Sustained low influenza vaccination rates in US healthcare workers
Creators: name: LeBlanc, William G.
name: Christ, Sharon L.
name: Arheart, Kristopher L.
name: Lee, David J.
name: Fleming, Lora E.
name: Caban-Martinez, Alberto J.
name: McCollister, Kathryn E.
name: Clarke, Tainya
name: Davila, Evelyn P.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: A substantial morbidity and mortality burden attributable to the influenza virus is observed annually in the United States. Healthcare workers are an occupational group at increased risk of exposure, demonstrated to transmit influenza to their patient populations, and vital to the care of these patient populations. The prevention of the spread of the flu is a significant public health concern. In the present study, we examined influenza vaccination rates and their 5-year trends within the major occupational healthcare worker groups and compared them to non-Healthcare Workers.
Lifestyle behaviors in Black and White women with a family history of breast cancer
Creators: name: Sandler, Dale P.
name: Spector, Denise
name: DeRoo, Lisa A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: To examine lifestyle behaviors among non-Hispanic Black and White women with a family history of breast cancer and determine the extent to which they meet American Cancer Society (ACS) Nutrition and Physical Activity Recommendations for Breast Cancer Prevention.
ImmuneMirror Source Code 1.0
Creators: name: Chuwdhury, Gulam Sarwar
name: Guo, Yunshan
name: Chiang, Chi Leung
name: Lam, Ka On
name: Kam, Ngar Woon
name: Liu, Zhonghua
name: Dai, Wei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Applications in health

description: This is the source code for our bioinformatics tool ImmuneMirror.
The connection between the UV colour of early type galaxies and the stellar initial mass function revisited
Creators: name: Zaritsky, Dennis
name: de Paz, Armando Gil
name: Bouquin, Alexandre Y. K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We extend our initial study of the connection between the UV colour of galaxies and both the inferred stellar mass-to-light ratio, $Υ_*$, and a mass-to-light ratio referenced to Salpeter initial mass function (IMF) models of the same age and metallicity, $Υ_*/Υ_{Sal}$, using new UV magnitude measurements for a much larger sample of early-type galaxies, ETGs, with dynamically determined mass-to-light ratios. We confirm the principal empirical finding of our first study, a strong correlation between the GALEX FUV-NUV colour and $Υ_*$. We show that this finding is not the result of spectral distortions limited to a single passband (eg. metallicity-dependent line-blanketing in the NUV band), or of the analysis methodology used to measure $Υ_*$, or of the inclusion or exclusion of the correction for stellar population effects as accounted for using $Υ_*/Υ_{Sal}$. The sense of the correlation is that galaxies with larger $Υ_*$, or larger $Υ_*/Υ_{Sal}$, are bluer in the UV. We conjecture that differences in the low mass end of the stellar initial mass function, IMF, are related to the nature of the extreme horizontal branch stars generally responsible for the UV flux in ETGs. If so, then UV color can be used to identify ETGs with particular IMF properties and to estimate $Υ_*$. We also demonstrate that UV colour can be used to decrease the scatter about the Fundamental Plane and Manifold, and to select peculiar galaxies for follow-up with which to further explore the cause of variations in $Υ_*$ and UV colour.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 8 pages
Ferroelectricity in glycine: A mini-review
Creators: name: Zelenovskii, Pavel S.
name: Vasileva, Daria
name: VASILEV, SEMEN
name: Kopyl, Svitlana
name: Kholkin, Andrei
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Glycine is the simplest natural amino acid, a basic building block for various biomaterials. Supramolecular packing of glycine molecules into three main crystalline polymorphs allows controlling their functional properties, such as piezoelectricity and ferroelectricity. Though piezoelectricity in glycine is well studied and reviewed, its ferroelectric properties were not summarized and analyzed until now. In this mini-review, we briefly discuss glycine polymorphs, their functional properties, and phase transitions, review recent findings on domain structure and polarization switching in β- and γ-glycine, and consider their possible applications in biocompatible photonic and piezoelectric devices.
Longitudinal trends in gasoline price and physical activity: The CARDIA study
Creators: name: Gordon-Larsen, Penny
name: Popkin, Barry M.
name: Hou, Ningqi
name: Jacobs,, David R.
name: Guilkey, David K.
name: Lewis, Cora E.
name: He, Ka
name: Song, Yan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: To investigate longitudinal associations between community-level gasoline price and physical activity (PA).
Financial Management IV FIM40P1
Creators: name: Nondonga, Siphumelele
Publisher: name: Walter Sisulu University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other commerce, management, tourism and services not elsewhere classified

description: Subject: Management Accounting IV Subject code: FIM40P1 Qualification: BTech: Cost and Management Accounting Examiner: Siphumelele Nondonga Year: June 2019
Constant terms of Eisenstein series over a totally real field
Creators: name: Ozawa, Tomomi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 11F41 (Primary), 11F30 (Secondary)

description: In this paper, we compute constant terms of Eisenstein series defined over a totally real field, at various cusps. In his paper published in 2003, M. Ohta computed the constant terms of Eisenstein series of weight two over the field of rational numbers, at all equivalence classes of cusps. As for Eisenstein series defined over a totally real field, S. Dasgupta, H. Darmon and R. Pollack calculated the constant terms at particular (not all) equivalence classes of cusps in 2011. We compute constant terms of Eisenstein series defined over a general totally real field at all equivalence classes of cusps, and describe them explicitly in terms of Hecke $L$-functions. This investigation is motivated by M. Ohta's work on congruence modules related to Eisenstein series defined over the field of rational numbers.
description: 22 pages
title: Rezension zu Jenny Haase und Joanna Neilly (Hgg.): „German Romanticism and Latin America. New Connections in World Literature“
Creators: name: Gaete, Miguel
Publisher: name: Friedrich-Schiller-Universität
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Romantik
subject: Lateinamerika
subject: Spanisch
subject: Literatur
subject: Alexander von Humboldt
subject: 800
subject: 830
subject: 860

description: Miguel Gaete rezensiert Jenny Haases und Joanna Neillys (Hgg.) „German Romanticism and Latin America. New Connections in World Literature“ (Legenda 2024).
description: Modell Romantik: Variation - Reichweite - Aktualität
Identifying the Community Roles of Social Capitalists in the Twitter Network
Creators: name: Labatut, Vincent
name: Dugué, Nicolas
name: Perez, Anthony
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the context of Twitter, social capitalists are specific users trying to increase their number of followers and interactions by any means. These users are not healthy for the Twitter network since they flaw notions of influence and visibility. Indeed, it has recently been observed that they are real and active users that can help malicious users such as spammers gaining influence. Studying their behavior and understanding their position in Twitter is thus of important interest. A recent work provided an efficient way to detect social capitalists using two simple topological measures. Based on this detection method, we study how social capitalists are distributed over Twitter's friend-to-follower network. We are especially interested in analyzing how they are organized, and how their links spread across the network. Answering these questions allows to know whether the social capitalism methods increase the actual visibility on the service. To that aim, we study the position of social capitalists on Twitter w.r.t. the community structure of the network. We base our work on the concept of community role of a node, which describes its position in a network depending on its connectivity at the community level. The topological measures originally defined to characterize these roles consider only some aspects of community-related connectivity and rely on a set of empirically fixed thresholds. We first show the limitations of such measures and then extend and generalize them by considering new aspects of the community-related connectivity. Moreover, we use an unsupervised approach to distinguish the roles, in order to provide more flexibility relatively to the studied system. We then apply our method to the case of social capitalists and show that they are highly visible on Twitter, due to the specific roles they occupy.
description: IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Network Analysis and Mining (ASONAM), P\'ekin : China (2014)
Dietary intake in a randomized-controlled pilot of NOURISH: A parent intervention for overweight children
Creators: name: Wilson, Diane Baer
name: Thornton, Laura M.
name: Mazzeo, Suzanne E.
name: Bean, Melanie K.
name: Kelly, Nichole
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: NOURISH is a community-based treatment program for parents of overweight and obese children (ages 6–11, BMI ≥ 85th percentile). This study examined the impact of NOURISH on child and parent dietary intake, secondary trial outcomes.
Parent-focused change to prevent obesity in preschoolers: Results from the KAN-DO study
Creators: name: Lovelady, Cheryl A.
name: Krause, Katrina M.
name: West, Deborah G.
name: Peterson, Bercedis L.
name: Stroo, Marissa
name: Swamy, Geeta K.
name: Evenson, Kelly R.
name: Østbye, Truls
name: Zucker, Nancy L.
name: Brouwer, Rebecca J.N.
name: Bastian, Lori A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Present the immediate post-intervention results of Kids and Adults Now - Defeat Obesity!, a randomized controlled trial to enhance healthy lifestyle behaviors in mother-preschooler (2–5 years old) dyads in North Carolina (2007–2011). The outcomes include change from baseline in the child’s diet, physical activity and weight, and in the mother’s parenting behaviors, diet, physical activity, and weight.
Spiritual and religious identities predict the use of complementary and alternative medicine among US adults
Creators: name: Bradshaw, Matt
name: Roberts, Cheryl A.
name: Ellison, Christopher G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: To determine whether spiritual and religious identities predict CAM use above and beyond other known influences such as gender, region of residence, social status, personality, health, and access to conventional medicine.
The star formation history of galaxies in 3D: CALIFA perspective
Creators: name: Delgado, R. M. González
name: Fernandes, R. Cid
name: García-Benito, R.
name: Pérez, E.
name: de Amorim, A. L.
name: Cortijo-Ferrero, C.
name: Lacerda, E. A. D.
name: Fernandez, R. López
name: Sanchez, S. F.
name: Asari, N. Vale
name: collaboration, CALIFA
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We resolve spatially the star formation history of 300 nearby galaxies from the CALIFA integral field survey to investigate: a) the radial structure and gradients of the present stellar populations properties as a function of the Hubble type; and b) the role that plays the galaxy stellar mass and stellar mass surface density in governing the star formation history and metallicity enrichment of spheroids and the disks of galaxies. We apply the fossil record method based on spectral synthesis techniques to recover spatially and temporally resolved maps of stellar population properties of spheroids and spirals with galaxy mass from 10$^9$ to 7$\times$10$^{11}$ M$_{\odot}$. The individual radial profiles of the stellar mass surface density ($μ_{*}$), stellar extinction (A$_{V}$), luminosity weighted ages ($\langle$ log age $\rangle_{L}$), and mass weighted metallicity ($\langle$ log Z/Z$_{\odot}$$\rangle_{M}$) are stacked in seven bins of galaxy morphology (E, S0, Sa, Sb, Sbc, Sc and Sd). All these properties show negative gradients as a sight of the inside-out growth of massive galaxies. However, the gradients depend on the Hubble type in different ways. For the same galaxy mass, E and S0 galaxies show the largest inner gradients in $μ_{*}$; and Andromeda-like galaxies (Sb with log M$_{*}$(M$_{\odot}$) $\sim$ 11) show the largest inner age and metallicity gradients. In average, spiral galaxies have a stellar metallicity gradient $\sim$ -0.1 dex per half-light radius, in agreement with the value estimated for the ionized gas oxygen abundance gradient by CALIFA. A global (M$_{*}$-driven) and local ($μ_{*}$- driven) stellar metallicity relation are derived. We find that in disks, the stellar mass surface density regulates the stellar metallicity; in spheroids, the galaxy stellar mass dominates the physics of star formation and chemical enrichment.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures. Proceedings IAU Symposium No. 309, 2014 (Galaxies in 3D across the Universe)
On the Hardy-Schrödinger operator with a boundary singularity
Creators: name: Ghoussoub, Nassif
name: Robert, Frédéric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We investigate the Hardy-Schrödinger operator $L_γ=-Δ-\fracγ{|x|^2}$ on domains $Ω\subset\rn$, whose boundary contain the singularity $0$. The situation is quite different from the well-studied case when $0$ is in the interior of $Ω$. For one, if $0\inΩ$, then $L_γ$ is positive if and only if $γ
description: 81 pages, Updated version - if any - can be downloaded at http://www.birs.ca/~nassif/
Neural correlates of cue-induced changes in decision-making distinguish subjects with gambling disorder from healthy controls
Creators: name: Genauck, Alexander
name: Matthis, Caroline
name: Andrejevic, Milan
name: Ballon, Lukas
name: Chiarello, Francesca
name: Duecker, Katharina
name: Heinz, Andreas
name: Kathmann, Norbert
name: Romanczuk-Seiferth, Nina
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: decision making
subject: fMRI
subject: gambling disorder
subject: Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer
subject: 150 Psychologie

description: In addiction, there are few human studies on the neural basis of cue-induced changes in value-based decision making (Pavlovian-to-instrumental transfer, PIT). It is especially unclear whether neural alterations related to PIT are due to the physiological effects of substance abuse or rather related to learning processes and/or other etiological factors related to addiction. We have thus investigated whether neural activation patterns during a PIT task help to distinguish subjects with gambling disorder (GD), a nonsubstance-based addiction, from healthy controls (HCs). Thirty GD and 30 HC subjects completed an affective decision-making task in a functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) scanner. Gambling-associated and other emotional cues were shown in the background during the task. Data collection and feature modeling focused on a network of nucleus accumbens (NAcc), amygdala, and orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) (derived from PIT and substance use disorder [SUD] studies). We built and tested a linear classifier based on these multivariate neural PIT signatures. GD subjects showed stronger PIT than HC subjects. Classification based on neural PIT signatures yielded a significant area under the receiver operating curve (AUC-ROC) (0.70, p = 0.013). GD subjects showed stronger PIT-related functional connectivity between NAcc and amygdala elicited by gambling cues, as well as between amygdala and OFC elicited by negative and positive cues. HC and GD subjects were thus distinguishable by PIT-related neural signatures including amygdala–NAcc–OFC functional connectivity. Neural PIT alterations in addictive disorders might not depend on the physiological effect of a substance of abuse but on related learning processes or even innate neural traits.
title: A Sense of Belonging
title: Childhood Abuse, Intolerance of Uncertainty and Bipolar Disorder
titleType: Subtitle
Creators: name: Ainsworth, Alexandra
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis is comprised of a systematic literature review, an empirical research project and a critical appraisal. The systematic literature review offers a narrative synthesis of the published evidence regarding a relationship between childhood abuse and one’s sense of belonging/social connectedness, in the context of Joiner’s Interpersonal Psychological Theory of Suicide. A total of 13 papers were included in this review and findings suggest that experiencing childhood abuse and a reduced sense of belonging/social connectedness are associated. The literature review also offers an evaluation of the current measures used in childhood abuse/belongingness studies. As a result, recommendations are made as to the feasibility, acceptability and reliability of measures used in future research. The empirical research paper explores the relationship between intolerance of uncertainty and thwarted belongingness in individuals who self-report a BD diagnosis. Data was collected from 169 participants using an online survey in regards to demographic and clinical information, current depressive/(hypo)manic symptoms, belonging, intolerance of uncertainty and stigma. Using a linear regression analysis, findings showed that intolerance of uncertainty (alongside experiencing a current mood episode) was significantly associated with thwarted belongingness. Considering these findings, it is possible that existing, evidence-based interventions for intolerance of uncertainty can be used to tackle feelings of thwarted belongingness in clinical practice. The critical appraisal explores the findings of the previous two sections in the context of attachment and offers a critique of the current use of psychiatric diagnosis to lead clinical and research developments.
A Robust Method for Handling Low Density Regions in Hybrid Simulations for Collisionless Plasmas
Creators: name: Amano, Takanobu
name: Higashimori, Katsuaki
name: Shirakawa, Keisuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Space Physics (physics.space-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A robust method to handle vacuum and near vacuum regions in hybrid simulations for space and astrophysical plasmas is presented. The conventional hybrid simulation model dealing with kinetic ions and a massless charge-neutralizing electron fluid is known to be susceptible to numerical instability due to divergence of the whistler-mode wave dispersion, as well as division-by-density operation in regions of low density. Consequently, a pure vacuum region is not allowed to exist in the simulation domain unless some ad hoc technique is used. To resolve this difficulty, an alternative way to introduce finite electron inertia effect is proposed. Contrary to the conventional method, the proposed one introduces a correction to the electric field rather than the magnetic field. It is shown that the generalized Ohm's law correctly reduces to Laplace's equation in a vacuum which therefore does not involve any numerical problems. In addition, a variable ion-to-electron mass ratio is introduced to reduce the phase velocity of high frequency whistler waves at low density regions so that the stability condition is always satisfied. It is demonstrated that the proposed model is able to handle near vacuum regions generated as a result of nonlinear self-consistent development of the system, as well as pure vacuum regions set up at the initial condition, without losing the advantages of the standard hybrid code.
description: 19 pages, 9 figures, accepted by Journal of Computational Physics
Energy shift and Casimir-Polder force for an atom out of thermal equilibrium near a dielectric substrate
Creators: name: Zhou, Wenting
name: Yu, Hongwei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the energy shift and the Casimir-Polder force of an atom out of thermal equilibrium near the surface of a dielectric substrate. We first generalize, adopting the local source hypothesis, the formalism proposed by Dalibard, Dupont-Roc and Cohen-Tannoudji, which separates the contributions of thermal fluctuations and radiation reaction to the energy shift and allows a distinct treatment to atoms in the ground and excited states, to the case out of thermal equilibrium, and then use the generalized formalism to calculate the energy shift and the Casimir-Polder force of an isotropically polarizable neutral atom. We identify the effects of the thermal fluctuations that originate from the substrate and the environment and discuss in detail how the Casimir-Polder force out of thermal equilibrium behaves in three different distance regions in both the low-temperature limit and the high-temperature limit for both the ground-state and excited-state atoms, with special attention devoted to the new features as opposed to thermal equilibrium. In particular, we recover the new behavior of the atom-wall force out of thermal equilibrium at large distances in the low temperature limit recently found in a different theoretical framework and furthermore we give a concrete region where this behavior holds.
description: 42 pages, 1 figure
Association of the built environment with physical activity and adiposity in rural and urban youth
Creators: name: Moore, Justin B.
name: Brownson, Ross C.
name: Evenson, Kelly R.
name: Brinkley, Jason
name: Crawford, Thomas W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: To determine if: (1) differences exist for body mass index (BMI) and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) between rural and urban youth, and (2) perceived and objective measures of environmental supports for physical activity differentially correlate with BMI and MVPA in middle school rural and urban youth.
Forgone vaccination during childhood and adolescence: Findings of a statewide survey of parents
Creators: name: Brewer, Noel T.
name: McRee, Annie-Laurie
name: Gilkey, Melissa B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Widespread immunization confers both individual- and community-level protection against vaccine-preventable diseases. To better understand vaccine hesitancy, we assessed correlates of forgone vaccination for children and adolescents.
Aspetti letterari della rappresentazione del passato in Seneca prosatore
Creators: name: COSTA, STEFANO
Publisher: name: Universit� degli Studi di Milano
Year: 2012

description: The dissertaton aims at analyzing the passages in Seneca prose works where past time is more or less expressly considered as antiquum and often set against the present. So the work chiefly sets to put in evidence from the literary point of view in which way the philosopher recognizes the autority of maiores and praises their exemplar ethical exellence in front of the contemporary corruption. In some cases, however, Seneca seems to reduce the difference between past and present when he trusts philosphy could contain the moral decay; therefore a large section of the thesis illustrates the stilistic-rhetoric strategies used by Seneca (not without ambiguity) in representing the proportional development both of vices and of the remedies philosophy can find to face them. The last chapter deals with nova exempla, or the people that, thought living in contemporary times, can set a good example of behaviour expecially as regard the way of dying, a very topical theme in Imperial Age.
A search for stellar tidal debris of defunct dwarf galaxies around globular clusters in the inner Galactic halo
Creators: name: Carballo-Bello, Julio A.
name: Sollima, Antonio
name: Martinez-Delgado, David
name: Pila-Diez, Berenice
name: Leaman, Ryan
name: Fliri, Juergen
name: Munoz, Ricardo R.
name: Corral-Santana, Jesus M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the hierarchical formation scenario in which the outer halo of the Milky Way is the result of the continuous accretion of low-mass galaxies, a fraction of the Galactic globular cluster system might have originated in and been accreted with already extinct dwarf galaxies. In this context, we expect that the remnants of these progenitor galaxies might be still populating the surroundings of those accreted globulars. In this work, we present wide-field photometry of a sample of 23 globular clusters in the Galactocentric distance range 10 < Rg < 40kpc, which we use to search for remnants of their hypothetical progenitor systems. Our deep photometry reveals the presence of underlying stellar populations along the line-of-sight of about half of the globulars included in our sample. Among the detections lying in the footprint of the Sagittarius tidal stream, which we identify via the comparison with its orbit derived from numerical simulations, only Whiting1 and NGC7492 seem to be inmersed in that remnant at a compatible heliocentric distance. We also confirm the existence of a subjacent Main-Sequence feature in the surroundings of NGC1851. A tentative detection of the vast Hercules-Aquila cloud is unveiled in the background of NGC7006.
description: 28 pages, 19 figures, 4 tables, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Association of environment and policy characteristics on children's moderate-to-vigorous physical activity and time spent sedentary in afterschool programs
Creators: name: Weaver, R. Glenn
name: Pate, Russell R.
name: Clennin, Morgan N.
name: Huberty, Jennifer L.
name: Ward, Dianne S.
name: Beets, Michael W.
name: Moore, Justin B.
name: Ajja, Rahma
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Afterschool programs (ASPs) are an important setting in which to promote children’s physical activity. This study examines the association of environmental and policy characteristics on the moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (MVPA) and sedentary behavior of children attending ASPs.
OKMC simulations of Fe-C systems under irradiation: sensitivity studies
Creators: name: Jansson, Ville
name: Malerba, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper continues our previous work on a nanostructural evolution model for Fe-C alloys under irradiation, using Object Kinetic Monte Carlo modeling techniques. We here present a number of sensitivity studies of parameters of the model, such as the carbon content in the material, represented by generic traps for point defects, the importance of traps, the size dependence of traps and the effect of the dose rate.
Financial Management IV FIM40Q1
Creators: name: Nondonga, Siphumelele
Publisher: name: Walter Sisulu University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other commerce, management, tourism and services not elsewhere classified

description: Subject: Management Accounting IV Subject code: FIM40Q1 Qualification: BTech: Cost and Management Accounting Examiner: Siphumelele Nondonga Year: June 2019
Realistic uncertainties of red-giant ages and should you trust 𝜈_max?
Creators: name: Li, Yaguang
name: Bedding, Timothy R.
name: Huber, Daniel
name: Stello, Dennis
name: van Saders, Jennifer
name: Zhou, Yixiao
name: Crawford, Courtney L.
name: Joyce, Meridith
name: Li, Tanda
name: Murphy, Simon J.
name: Sreenivas, K. R.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Asteroseismic modelling is a powerful way to derive stellar properties. However, the derived quantities are limited by built-in assumptions used in stellar models. This work presents a detailed characterisation of stellar model uncertainties in asteroseismic red giants, focusing on the mixing-length parameter (a_mlt), the initial helium fraction (Y_init) etc. First, we estimate error floors due to model uncertainties to be ~0.4% in mass, ~0.2% in radius, and ~17% in age, due to the uncertain state of a_mlt and Y_init. The systematic errors in age exceed typical statistical errors. Second, we demonstrate that the uncertainties from a_mlt can be entirely mitigated by direct radius measurements or partially through 𝜈_max. Utilizing radii from eclipsing binaries, we determined the a_mlt values and calibrated the a_mlt-[M/H] relation. The correlation observed between the two variables is consistent with previous studies using 1D stellar models, but in contrast with 3D simulations. Third, we explore the implications of using asteroseismic modelling to test the 𝜈_max scaling relation. We found that a perceived dependency of 𝜈_max on [M/H] from frequency modelling can be largely removed by incorporating the calibrated a_mlt-[M/H] relation. These findings suggest that 𝜈_max conveys information not fully captured by individual frequencies, and that it should be carefully considered as an important observable for asteroseismic modelling.
A comparison of three policy approaches for tobacco retailer reduction
Creators: name: Myers, Allison E.
name: Isgett, Lisa F.
name: Ribisl, Kurt M.
name: Hall, Marissa G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: The Institute of Medicine recommends that public health agencies restrict the number and regulate the location of tobacco retailers as a means of reducing tobacco use. However, the best policy strategy for tobacco retailer reduction is unknown.
Lattice Gauge Theory for Condensed Matter Physics: Ferromagnetic Superconductivity as its Example
Creators: name: Ichinose, Ikuo
name: Matsui, Tetsuo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent theoretical studies of various strongly-correlated systems in condensed matter physics reveal that the lattice gauge theory(LGT) developed in high-energy physics is quite a useful tool to understand physics of these systems. Knowledges of LGT are to become a necessary item even for condensed matter physicists. In the first part of this paper, we present a concise review of LGT for the reader who wants to understand its basics for the first time. For illustration, we choose the abelian Higgs model, a typical and quite useful LGT, which is the lattice verison of the Ginzburg-Landau model interacting with a U(1) gauge field (vector potential). In the second part, we present an account of the recent progress in the study of ferromagnetic superconductivity (SC) as an example of application of LGT to topics in condensed matter physics, . As the ferromagnetism (FM) and SC are competing orders with each other, large fluctuations are expected to take place and therefore nonperturbative methods are required for theoretical investigation. After we introduce a LGT describing the FMSC, we study its phase diagram and topological excitations (vortices of Cooper pairs) by Monte-Carlo simulations.
description: 31 pages, 13 figures, Invited review article of Mod.Phys.Lett.B
A resolved, au-scale gas disk around the B[e] star HD 50138
Creators: name: Ellerbroek, L. E.
name: Benisty, M.
name: Kraus, S.
name: Perraut, K.
name: Kluska, J.
name: Bouquin, J. B. le
name: Fernandes, M. Borges
name: de Souza, A. Domiciano
name: Maaskant, K. M.
name: Kaper, L.
name: Tramper, F.
name: Mourard, D.
name: Tallon-Bosc, I.
name: Brummelaar, T. ten
name: Sitko, M. L.
name: Lynch, D. K.
name: Russell, R. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: HD 50138 is a B[e] star surrounded by a large amount of circumstellar gas and dust. Its spectrum shows characteristics which may indicate either a pre- or a post-main-sequence system. Mapping the kinematics of the gas in the inner few au of the system contributes to a better understanding of its physical nature. We present the first high spatial and spectral resolution interferometric observations of the Br-gamma line of HD~50138, obtained with VLTI/AMBER. The line emission originates from a region more compact (up to 3 au) than the continuum-emitting region. Blue- and red-shifted emission originates from the two different hemispheres of an elongated structure perpendicular to the polarization angle. The velocity of the emitting medium decreases radially. An overall offset along the NW direction between the line- and continuum-emitting regions is observed. We compare the data with a geometric model of a thin Keplerian disk and a spherical halo on top of a Gaussian continuum. Most of the data are well reproduced by this model, except for the variability, the global offset and the visibility at the systemic velocity. The evolutionary state of the system is discussed; most diagnostics are ambiguous and may point either to a post-main-sequence or a pre-main-sequence nature.
description: 19 pages, 12 images. Accepted for publication in Astronomy & Astrophysics
Management Accounting 111 MAC30Z1
Creators: name: Nondonga, Siphumelele
Publisher: name: Walter Sisulu University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Other commerce, management, tourism and services not elsewhere classified

description: Subject: Management Accounting III Subject code: MAC30Z1 Qualification: BTech: Cost and Management Accounting Examiner: Siphumelele Nondonga Year: June 2019
Probiotic Formula for Gut Health
Creators: name: Lisa Clara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: The human gastrointestinal tract represents the largest interface between the organism and the external environment. lt is colonized by a complex ecosystem of microorganisms, where microbiota, nutrients, and host cells interact extensively, a process crucial for gut homeostasis and host development with a real partnership. We need to know how probiotics work based on the strain, dose, and components used to produce a given probiotic product. Creative Enzymes provides high-quality gut health formula for academic and industrial use. Please contact us for product details.
Changes in walking associated with perceived neighborhood safety and police-recorded crime: The multi-ethnic study of atherosclerosis
Creators: name: Kerr, Zachary
name: Evenson, Kelly R.
name: Moore, Kari
name: Diez Roux, Ana V.
name: Block, Richard
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: To explore the association of changes in perceived safety and police-recorded crime with changes in transport and leisure walking using longitudinal data from Chicago residents participating in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (2000–2012).
Constitution Hill Global Guidelines on Apex Court Appointments
Creators: name: Institute for Integrated Transitions
name: Constitutional Transitions
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: apex court
supreme court
constitutional court
high court
IFIT
guidelines
judges
selection of judges
judicial captures
judicial independence
Zimbabwe
South Africa
expert consultation
Constitution Hill
Constitutional Transitions
peacebuilding
democracy
legal system

description: There are many important national, regional and international principles and guidelines on the selection and appointment of judges. What has been missing is a set of baseline principles tailored to the unique role and characteristics of Apex Courts and customisable to the unique conditions of diverse country and/or regional contexts. To fill the gap, IFIT – in partnership with Constitutional Transitions and a High-Level Advisory Panel composed of distinguished judges and jurists from a wide spectrum of legal systems – established the Initiative on Apex Court Appointments in 2021. The Constitution Hill Global Guidelines on Apex Court Appointments mark the final outcome (available in English, French, Spanish, Portuguese and Arabic). The Guidelines are entirely original but draw from a range of key sources including: (i) a detailed IFIT study of existing global and regional principles on judicial appointments and judicial independence; (ii) a comprehensive survey of national standards; (iii) in-depth interviews conducted with the initiative’s High-Level Panel members and with additional judges and jurists globally; and (iv) early work in the Southern African region from whence the project originated with the support of IFIT’s Zimbabwe Resource Group. Starting in July 2023, a first draft of the Guidelines was the centrepiece of an expert consultation and feedback process with 100+ leading global and regional legal and judicial institutions, associations and networks. In early 2024, an updated version of the Guidelines passed through a second phase of global consultation and feedback, culminating in a high-level judicial and legal summit held at Constitution Hill in Johannesburg, South Africa in May 2024.
Dynamical Evolution of the Earth-Moon Progenitors - Whence Theia?
Creators: name: Quarles, Billy
name: Lissauer, Jack J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present integrations of a model Solar System with five terrestrial planets (beginning ~30-50 Myr after the formation of primitive Solar System bodies) in order to determine the preferred regions of parameter space leading to a giant impact that resulted in the formation of the Moon. Our results indicate which choices of semimajor axes and eccentricities for Theia (the proto-Moon) at this epoch can produce a late Giant Impact, assuming that Mercury, Venus, and Mars are near the current orbits. We find that the likely semimajor axis of Theia, at the epoch when our simulations begin, depends on the assumed mass ratio of Earth-Moon progenitors (8/1, 4/1, or 1/1). The low eccentricities of the terrestrial planets are most commonly produced when the progenitors have similar semimajor axes at the epoch when our integrations commence. Additionally, we show that mean motion resonances among the terrestrial planets and perturbations from the giant planets can affect the dynamical evolution of the system leading to a late Giant Impact.
description: 17 pages, Accepted for publication in Icarus
HPV vaccine for teen boys: Dyadic analysis of parents' and sons' beliefs and willingness
Creators: name: Reiter, Paul L.
name: Moss, Jennifer L.
name: Brewer, Noel T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Parents and adolescents often decide together whether the child should receive human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine. However, few studies have investigated the dyadic nature of beliefs that affect this process.
title: Συμπληρώματα διατροφής που προκαλούν καρκίνο
title: Dietary supplements that cause cancer
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Ρουμελιώτη, Έλενα
Publisher: name: Πανεπιστήμιο Δυτικής Αττικής
Year: 2022
Subjects: Συμπληρώματα διατροφής
Καρκίνος
Κίνδυνοι συμπληρωμάτων

description: Σκοπός της παρούσας πτυχιακής εργασίας είναι να μελετήσει τη σχέση μεταξύ δύο επίκαιρων ζητημάτων που αφορούν την υγεία του ανθρώπου, αυτής των συμπληρωμάτων διατροφής και την επίδρασή τους στα περιστατικά νόσησης από κάποιο τύπο καρκίνου. Χρησιμοποιώντας τη μέθοδο της βιβλιογραφικής ανασκόπησης της πρόσφατης επιστημονικής έρευνας, η εργασία επιχειρεί να παρουσιάσει την εξέλιξη και τη γενικότερη χρήση των συμπληρωμάτων στη σύγχρονη κοινωνία, με στόχο να διερευνήσει τις συνθήκες υπό τις οποίες τα συμπληρώματα διατροφής και τα συστατικά τους έχουν συσχετιστεί με πιθανή αύξηση του κινδύνου εμφάνισης καρκίνου και κακή πρόγνωση της νόσου. Καθώς ο καρκίνος αποτελεί μία από τις συχνότερες αιτίες θανάτου, έχει μεγάλη σημασία να αναδειχθεί η σχέση του με τα συμπληρώματα διατροφής, πολλά εκ των οποίων διατίθενται για ευρεία κατανάλωση σε ποικίλα σημεία πώλησης. Η ανάγκη προσεκτικής χρήσης των συμπληρωμάτων και της ασφαλούς χορήγησής τους, με γνώμονα τη διασφάλιση της υγείας με την αναγνώριση πιθανών κινδύνων, αποτελεί τον απώτερο στόχο αυτής της εργασίας.
title: Étude de cas : double cycle de « Lesson Study » avec l'utilisation d'un artefact interdisciplinaire Biologie-Physique Modélisation du potentiel post-synaptique d'un neurone excitateur
title: Étude de cas : double cycle de « Lesson Study » avec l'utilisation d'un artefact interdisciplinaire Biologie-Physique Modélisation du potentiel post-synaptique d'un neurone excitateur
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Favrod, Ophélie
name: Klinke, Sergio
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0

description: Les Lesson Study (LS) sont un dispositif visant à développer et améliorer la pratique professionnelle des enseignants. Il s’agit d’observer une leçon et d’en faire une analyse réflexive afin d’apporter des modifications constructives aux apprentissages des élèves. Ici, l’aspect interdisciplinaire biologie-physique est privilégié. Dans un premier temps, un artéfact (outil didactique), modélisant la notion de seuil d’activation neuronale, est réalisé. Puis, deux cycles itératifs de leçons autour de cet artéfact sont analysés. Cette étude de cas montre que l’utilisation d’artéfact en classe est bénéfique pour les apprentissages des élèves parce que, potentiellement, ils laissent une trace de rétention plus vivide. Ce résultat est préliminaire mais prometteur. Il ne fait pas preuve de généralisation mais ouvre des pistes de réflexion. En outre, les artéfacts apportent une composante ludique non-négligeable en termes d’apprentissage pour les élèves.
title: Susciter une prise de conscience chez nos élèves quant à leurs données personnelles
title: Susciter une prise de conscience chez nos élèves quant à leurs données personnelles
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Hugonot, Joachim
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 0
Subjects: subject: Enjeux de société liés à l’informatique
subject: GAFAM
subject: intelligence artificielle
subject: publicité ciblée
subject: données personnelles
subject: économie du numérique

description: Dans ce mémoire de diplôme, nous avons élaboré une séquence « clés en main » dans le contexte de l’enseignement de l’informatique au secondaire II. La séquence s’inscrit dans la partie « Enjeux de société » du nouveau plan d’études de 1ère année arrivant à la rentrée scolaire 2022-2033. Cette partie de l’enseignement de l’informatique est cruciale car elle a pour but d’informer nos élèves et de leur permettre de se positionner quant aux problématiques de société liées à l’utilisation de l’informatique. La séquence traite des données personnelles numériques dans le contexte de la publicité ciblée, de comment ces données sont analysées par les GAFAM et rendues monnayables. Elle a pour but de susciter une prise de conscience chez nos élèves. Cette séquence prend la forme d’une interface graphique où les informations textuelles seront affichées séquentiellement aux élèves. Elle comporte également divers éléments interactifs, les élèves y trouveront un célèbre modèle d’intelligence artificielle, Mask R-CNN, avec lequel ils pourront expérimenter en lui donnant des photos et en visualisant les résultats de l’algorithme. Les élèves peuvent utiliser les photos fournies avec le logiciel mais sont encouragé·e·s à utiliser leurs propres photos publiques sur internet ou des photos depuis leur webcam, ce qu’ils peuvent faire en quelques clics directement dans le logiciel. Dans ce travail, nous dressons un bilan des diverses ressources existantes, nous motivons ensuite les choix ayant conduits à la séquence et de comment nous évaluons son impact auprès de nos élèves. Finalement, nous présenterons et discuterons les résultats obtenus auprès de 27 élèves avant de mentionner les pistes les plus pertinentes afin d’améliorer le fond et la forme de notre séquence. Le logiciel a été développé en Python et son code source sera mis à disposition de la communauté.
ОПИСАНИЕ ОБРАЗА ТИПИЧНОГО АМЕРИКАНЦА  В ПРОИЗВЕДЕНИЯХ САТИРИКОВ США.
Creators: name: Rajabov, Akhtam
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: В статье рассматриваются особенности образа американца в сатирической прозе, приводятся примеры из произведений американских авторов.
Physical activity and healthy eating environmental audit tools in youth care settings: A systematic review
Creators: name: Ward, Dianne S.
name: Ajja, Rahma
name: Chandler, Jessica
name: Kaczynski, Andrew T.
name: Beets, Michael W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: There is a growing interest in evaluating the physical activity (PA) and healthy eating (HE) policy and practice environment characteristics in settings frequented by youth (≤18 years).