cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Mind-body interventions to reduce risk for health disparities related to stress and strength among African American women: The potential of mindfulness-based stress reduction, loving-kindness, and the NTU therapeutic framework
Creators: name: Black, A.R.
name: Woods-Giscombé, C.L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: In the current article, the authors examine the potential role of mind-body interventions for preventing or reducing health disparities in a specific group-African American women. The authors first discuss how health disparities affect this group, including empirical evidence regarding the influence of biopsychosocial processes (e.g., psychological stress and social context) on disparate health outcomes. They also detail how African American women's unique stress experiences as a result of distinct sociohistorical and cultural experiences related to race and gender potentially widen exposure to stressors and influence stress responses and coping behaviors. Using two independent, but related, frameworks (Superwoman Schema [SWS] and the Strong Black Woman Script [SBW-S]), they discuss how, for African American women, stress is affected by "strength" (vis-à -vis resilience, fortitude, and self-sufficiency) and the emergent health-compromising behaviors related to strength (e.g., emotional suppression, extraordinary caregiving, and self-care postponement). The authors then describe the potential utility of three mind-body interventions-mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), loving-kindness meditation (LKM), and NTU psychotherapy-for specifically targeting the stress-, strength-, and contextually related factors that are thought to influence disparate outcomes for African American women. Self-awareness, self-care, inter- and intrapersonal restorative healing and a redefinition of inner strength may manifest through developing a mindfulness practice to decrease stress-related responses; using LKM to cultivate compassion and forgiveness for self and others; and the balance of independence and interdependence as a grounding NTU principle for redefining strength. The authors conclude with a discussion of potential benefits for integrating key aspects of the interventions with recommendations for future research.
A Markovian Approach to the Optimal Demodulation of Diffusion-based Molecular Communication Networks
Creators: name: Chou, Chun Tung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: In a diffusion-based molecular communication network, transmitters and receivers communicate by using signalling molecules (or ligands) in a fluid medium. This paper assumes that the transmitter uses different chemical reactions to generate different emission patterns of signalling molecules to represent different transmission symbols, and the receiver consists of receptors. When the signalling molecules arrive at the receiver, they may react with the receptors to form ligand-receptor complexes. Our goal is to study the demodulation in this setup assuming that the transmitter and receiver are synchronised. We derive an optimal demodulator using the continuous history of the number of complexes at the receiver as the input to the demodulator. We do that by first deriving a communication model which includes the chemical reactions in the transmitter, diffusion in the transmission medium and the ligand-receptor process in the receiver. This model, which takes the form of a continuous-time Markov process, captures the noise in the receiver signal due to the stochastic nature of chemical reactions and diffusion. We then adopt a maximum a posterior framework and use Bayesian filtering to derive the optimal demodulator. We use numerical examples to illustrate the properties of this optimal demodulator.
A study of data randomization on a computer based feature selection for diagnosing coronary artery disease
Creators: name: Prabowo, Dwi Wahyu
name: Setiawan, Noor Akhmad
name: Nugroho, Hanung Adi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2014
Subjects: CFS
Classification algorithm
Coronary artery disease
Cleveland dataset
Gaussian probability distribution
MFS
Randomization

description: The objective of this research is to investigate the randomization of data on a computer based feature selection for diagnosing coronary artery disease. The randomization on Cleveland dataset was conducted because the performance value is different for each experiment. Assuming the performance values have a Gaussian probability distribution is a solution to handle different performance value provided by the process of randomizing dataset. The final performance is taken from the mean value of all performance value. In this research, computer based feature selection (CFS), medical expert based feature selection (MFS) and combined both of MFS and CFS (MFS+ CFS) are also conducted to improve the performance of the classification algorithm. Also, this research found a different characteristic on Cleveland dataset from previous work. This difference obviously can affect the feature selection result and the final performance. In summary, the randomization dataset and computing the final performance can generally represent the performance of the classification algorithm.
Evaluation of antibacterial and mechanical features of dental adhesives containing colloidal gold nanoparticles
Creators: name: Khakbiz, Mehrdad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: In this study, colloidal gold nanoparticles (NPs) with sizes less than 20 nm were added to the dentin adhesive in various concentrations to achieve favorable antibacterial properties. The effect of gold NPs on mechanical, antibacterial, and cytotoxicity features of adhesive was evaluated systematically. It was shown that the addition of gold NPs at the concentration of 5X (i) increased flexural strength of dentin tooth adhesive by 75%, (ii) increased the micro-shear bond strength by 60%, and (iii) increased the tensile diameter strength of adhesive by 65% compared to the based adhesive. Multiscale modeling was used to simulate and calculate stress and strain distribution around the nanoparticles and within the adhesive matrix. Antibacterial properties of adhesives containing gold NPs were examined using disk diffusion and the pour plate methods. The results showed that adhesive with the 5X concentration of gold NPs had a bacterial growth inhibition zone with a diameter of 2 mm is in the disk diffusion method which indicates the antibacterial characteristics of adhesive at this concentration. Also, the antibacterial effect of adhesive-containing NPs was observed in the pour plate method and the reduction of bacterial growth is increased by the addition of nanoparticles. The cytotoxicity of NPs is examined in pure form and com-bination with dental adhesive using the MTT assay. The results showed that pure gold NPs have shown no toxicity for the growth of cells and the incorporation of gold NPs has increased the cell viability in the base adhesive.
Explaining disproportionately high rates of adverse birth outcomes among African Americans: The impact of stress, racism, and related factors in pregnancy
Creators: name: Lobel, M.
name: Giscombé, C.L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Compared with European Americans, African American infants experience disproportionately high rates of low birth weight and preterm delivery and are more than twice as likely to die during their 1st year of life. The authors examine 5 explanations for these differences in rates of adverse birth outcomes: (a) ethnic differences in health behaviors and socioeconomic status; (b) higher levels of stress in African American women; (c) greater susceptibility to stress in African Americans; (d) the impact of racism acting either as a contributor to stress or as a factor that exacerbates stress effects; and (e) ethnic differences in stress-related neuroendocrine, vascular, and immunological processes. The review of literature indicates that each explanation has some merit, although none is sufficient to explain ethnic disparities in adverse birth outcomes. There is a lack of studies examining the impact of such factors jointly and interactively. Recommendations and cautions for future research are offered.
Operator-valued dyadic shifts and the T(1) theorem
Creators: name: Hänninen, Timo S.
name: Hytönen, Tuomas P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42B20 (Primary), 46E40 (Secondary)

description: In this paper we extend dyadic shifts and the dyadic representation theorem to an operator-valued setting: We first define operator-valued dyadic shifts and prove that they are bounded. We then extend the dyadic representation theorem, which states that every scalar-valued Calderón-Zygmund operator can be represented as a series of dyadic shifts and paraproducts averaged over randomized dyadic systems, to operator-valued Calderón-Zygmund operators. As a corollary, we obtain another proof of the operator-valued, global T(1) theorem. We work in the setting of integral operators that have R-bounded operator-valued kernels and act on functions taking values in UMD-spaces. The domain of the functions is the Euclidean space equipped with the Lebesgue measure. In addition, we give new proofs for the following known theorems: Boundedness of the dyadic (operator-valued) paraproduct, a variant of Pythagoras' theorem for (vector-valued) functions adapted to a sparse collection of dyadic cubes, and a decoupling inequality for (UMD-valued) martingale differences.
description: 29 pages, 1 figure
Engaging Youth in Charlotte Planning
Creators: name: Hess, Wren
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: In June 2021, the city of Charlotte adopted the Charlotte Future 2040 Comprehensive Plan and as of March 2022 has finalized the 2040 Policy Map that will replace the city’s future land use map and help with the implementation of the comprehensive plan’s place-based policies. The community engagement activities for the comprehensive plan had over 500,000 interactions from Charlotte residents, but planners identified that youth were underrepresented. The 2040 Plan acknowledges past injustices and aims for an equitable future with input from as much of the community as possible, especially under-represented groups such as immigrants, racial and ethnic minorities, seniors, and youth. Now that the comprehensive plan has been adopted and the next round of engagement activities will focus on implementation, Charlotte has the opportunity to engage residents in new ways, including in ways that focus more specifically on groups who were less involved in the original engagement process. In this report, I review youth- and young adult-focused engagement plans and discuss ideas from interviews with Charlotte city staff and other planners to recommend ways the city might continue to involve youth in shaping the city.
Detecting Noncommutative Phase Space by Aharonov-Bohm Effect
Creators: name: Liang, Shi-Dong
name: Li, Haoqi
name: Huang, Guang-Yao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Noncommutative phase space plays an essential role in particle physics and quantum gravity at the Planck scale. However, direct experimental evidence or observation to demonstrate the existence of noncommutative phase space is still lacking.We study a quantum ring in noncommutative phase space based on the Seiberg-Witten map and give the effective magnetic potential and field coming from the noncommutative phase space, which induces the persistent current in the ring. We introduce two variables as two signatures to detect the noncommutative phase space and propose an experimental scheme to detect the noncommutative phase space as long as we measure the persistent current and the external magnetic flux.
description: 12 page2, 2 figures
dental-2.pdf
Creators: name: Khakbiz, Mehrdad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 90399 Biomedical Engineering not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Medical engineering

description: In this study, colloidal gold nanoparticles (NPs) with sizes less than 20 nm were added to the dentin adhesive in various concentrations to achieve favorable antibacterial properties. The effect of gold NPs on mechanical, antibacterial, and cytotoxicity features of adhesive was evaluated systematically. It was shown that the addition of gold NPs at the concentration of 5X (i) increased flexural strength of dentin tooth adhesive by 75%, (ii) increased the micro-shear bond strength by 60%, and (iii) increased the tensile diameter strength of adhesive by 65% compared to the based adhesive. Multiscale modeling was used to simulate and calculate stress and strain distribution around the nanoparticles and within the adhesive matrix. Antibacterial properties of adhesives containing gold NPs were examined using disk diffusion and the pour plate methods. The results showed that adhesive with the 5X concentration of gold NPs had a bacterial growth inhibition zone with a diameter of 2 mm is in the disk diffusion method which indicates the antibacterial characteristics of adhesive at this concentration. Also, the antibacterial effect of adhesive-containing NPs was observed in the pour plate method and the reduction of bacterial growth is increased by the addition of nanoparticles. The cytotoxicity of NPs is examined in pure form and com-bination with dental adhesive using the MTT assay. The results showed that pure gold NPs have shown no toxicity for the growth of cells and the incorporation of gold NPs has increased the cell viability in the base adhesive.
Nitrogen footprints: past, present and future
Publisher: name: University of Virginia
Year: 2017

description: The human alteration of the nitrogen cycle has evolved from minimal in the mid-19th century to extensive in the present time. The consequences to human and environmental health are significant. While much attention has been given to the extent and impacts of the alteration, little attention has been given to those entities (i.e., consumers, institutions) that use the resources that result in extensive reactive nitrogen (Nr) creation. One strategy for assessment is the use of nitrogen footprint tools. A nitrogen footprint is generally defined as the total amount of Nr released to the environment as a result of an entity’s consumption patterns. This paper reviews a number of nitrogen footprint tools (N-Calculator, N-Institution, N-Label, N-Neutrality, N-Indicator) that are designed to provide that attention. It reviews N-footprint tools for consumers as a function of the country that they live in (N-Calculator, N-Indicator) and the products they buy (N-Label), for the institutions that people work in and are educated in (N-Institution), and for events and decision-making regarding offsets (N-Neutrality). N footprint tools provide a framework for people to make decisions about their resource use and show them how offsets can be coupled with behavior change to decrease consumer/institution contributions to N-related problems.
A remark on gapped domain walls between topological phases
Creators: name: Kawahigashi, Yasuyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We give a mathematical definition of a gapped domain wall between topological phases and a gapped boundary of a topological phase. We then provide answers to some recent questions studied by Lan, Wang and Wen in condensed matter physics based on works of Davydov, Müger, Nikshych and Ostrik. In particular, we identify their tunneling matrix and a coupling matrix of Rehren, and show that their conjecture does not hold.
description: 7 pages, minor fixes, references added
title: Redistribution and Unemployment Insurance
Creators: name: Ferey, Antoine
Publisher: name: Universitätsbibliothek der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Year: 2022

description: This paper analyzes the interactions between redistribution and unemployment insurance policies and their implications for the optimal design of tax-benefit systems. In a setting where individuals with different earnings abilities are exposed to unemployment risk on the labor market, I characterize the optimal income tax schedule and the optimal unemployment benefit schedule in terms of empirically estimable sufficient statistics. I provide a Pareto-efficiency condition for tax-benefit systems that implies a tight link between optimal redistribution and optimal unemployment insurance: the steeper the profile of income taxes is, the flatter the profile of unemployment benefits should be, and vice versa. Optimal replacement rates are therefore monotonically decreasing with earnings, from 1 at the bottom of the earnings distribution to 0 at the top, and redistribution through unemployment benefits is efficient. Empirical applications show that these interactions between redistribution and unemployment insurance have important quantitative implications.
In-depth intercity bus crash investigation: Case study of fire-gutted bus in Thailand
Creators: name: Saiprasit Koetniyom
name: Pongrid Klungboonkrong
name: Khairil Anwar Abu Kassim
name: Songwut Mongkonlerdmanee
Publisher: name: Faculty of Engineering, Khon Kaen University
Year: 2022
Subjects: Fire-gutted bus
CNG system
Braking system
Periodical technical inspection
Vehicle regulation
In-depth accident investigation

description: Engineering and Applied Science Research, 49, 5, 696-706
Chimera states in systems of nonlocal nonidentical phase-coupled oscillators
Creators: name: Xie, Jianbo
name: Kao, Hsien-Ching
name: Knobloch, Edgar
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Chimera states consisting of domains of coherently and incoherently oscillating nonlocally-coupled phase oscillators in systems with spatial inhomogeneity are studied. The inhomogeneity is introduced through the dependence of the oscillator frequency on its location. Two types of spatial inhomogeneity, localized and spatially periodic, are considered and their effects on the existence and properties of multi-cluster and traveling chimera states are explored. The inhomogeneity is found to break up splay states, to pin the chimera states to specific locations and to trap traveling chimeras. Many of these states can be studied by constructing an evolution equation for a complex order parameter. Solutions of this equation are in good agreement with the results of numerical simulations.
description: 16 pages, 35 figures
Change and development in the British funeral industry during the 20th century, with special reference to the period 1960-1994
Creators: name: Parsons, Brian
Publisher: name: University of Westminster
Year: 1997

description: Historical evidence indicates that the role of the undertaker gradually evolved as the collective responsibilities of family and community for dealing with the dead were passed to a full-time specialist known today as the funeral director. Around 1900 the function of the undertaker was chiefly to supply the coffin and the means of transportation to the place of disposal. However, due to urbanization and the transition of the place of death from home to hospital, both of which have occurred this century, the funeral director's role has developed to embrace that of the custodian of the dead. In conjunction with the preference towards cremation, the shift from animate to vehicular power and the adoption of embalming, the funeral director has acquired not only increased responsibility but also considerable control over funeral performance. Parallel with these developments ,a shift in ownership of funeral firms has occurred especially during the last three decades as independent organizations have been acquired by large organizations. This latter type of firm has, it is argued, exploited occupational control attributable to the rationalization of the death and disposal environment by managing their funeral operations on a centralized basis, thus achieving cost savings. Commencing with an overview of the organization of death and disposal since the fifteenth century, this thesis identifies and examines societal and technical changes that have resulted in the control of the disposal process by formal organizations. It is argued in this thesis that through the large centralized organization gaining a presence in the funeral industry a number of negative consequences are apparent. Firstly, although operational economies are achieved there is no evidence to suggest that these are passed on to the consumer. Secondly, retention of the original trading name deceives the public. Thirdly, through fieldwork conducted in a small, independent firm and within a large centralized organization it is concluded that a degree of depersonalization exists. It is further argued that the operational rationale of the large funeral organizations is being challenged as the recent increase in consumer awareness has led to the question of exploitation, such as through a monopoly market structure. The position is compounded by the emerging trend of newly-established independent funeral director offering competitively priced funerals. The final area examined is the issue of professionalization of the funeral director. Reasons why funeral directors embarked upon this quest are examined followed by an analysis of strategies to achieve the objective. The change in the funeral director's role and the issue of stigmatization through body handling are critically assessed in addition to the contribution to the process by the operational policies of the large organization.
Initial state in relativistic nuclear collisions and Color Glass Condensate
Creators: name: Gelis, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this talk, I discuss recent works related to the pre-hydrodynamical stages of ultra-relativistic heavy ion collisions.
description: 8 pages, 21 figures, proceedings of Quark Matter 2014
Exponential stability of time-delay systems via new weighted integral inequalities
Creators: name: Hien, L. V.
name: Trinh, H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: 34D20, 34K20, 93D05

description: In this paper, new weighted integral inequalities (WIIs) are first derived by refining the Jensen single and double inequalities. It is shown that the newly derived inequalities in this paper encompass both the Jensen inequality and its most recent improvements based on Wirtinger integral inequality. The potential capability of the proposed WIIs is demonstrated through applications in exponential stability analysis for some classes of time-delay systems in the framework of linear matrix inequalities (LMIs). The effectiveness and least conservativeness of the derived stability conditions using WIIs are shown by various numerical examples.
description: Submitted
PreBriefing, DeBriefing and Upshot, Talking an Education, A Framework for Enriching Engagement, [DRAFT]
Creators: name: Moses, K
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Teaching
subject: Pedagogy
subject: Curriculum
subject: Design
subject: Inquiry-based Learning
subject: Instructional Design
subject: Classroom Design
subject: Learning
subject: https://openmedproject.eu/pedagogical-approach/

description: Abstract: I have a framework of sorts for running assignments developed in Cancer Prevention courses with junior and senior undergraduates, pre-med students and graduate students: (1)Assignment starts, (2)PreBriefings while it is running, After initial Responses, After peer-to-peer Responses - submissions are public to class - a (3)DeBriefing, and After Grading an (4)UpShot review(s) which can include student excerpts, [UnderConstruction]
Community detection in directed acyclic graphs
Creators: name: Speidel, Leo
name: Takaguchi, Taro
name: Masuda, Naoki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Some temporal networks, most notably citation networks, are naturally represented as directed acyclic graphs (DAGs). To detect communities in DAGs, we propose a modularity for DAGs by defining an appropriate null model (i.e., randomized network) respecting the order of nodes. We implement a spectral method to approximately maximize the proposed modularity measure and test the method on citation networks and other DAGs. We find that the attained values of the modularity for DAGs are similar for partitions that we obtain by maximizing the proposed modularity (designed for DAGs), the modularity for undirected networks and that for general directed networks. In other words, if we neglect the order imposed on nodes (and the direction of links) in a given DAG and maximize the conventional modularity measure, the obtained partition is close to the optimal one in the sense of the modularity for DAGs.
description: 2 figures, 7 tables
Do CVD grown graphene films have antibacterial activity on metallic substrates?
Creators: name: Dellieu, Louis
name: Lawarée, Emeline
name: Reckinger, Nicolas
name: Didembourg, Christian
name: Letesson, Jean-Jacques
name: Sarrazin, Michael
name: Deparis, Olivier
name: Matroule, Jean-Yves
name: Colomer, Jean-François
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Accurate assessment of the antibacterial activity of graphene requires consideration of both the graphene fabrication method and, for supported films, the properties of the substrate. Large-area graphene films produced by chemical vapor deposition were grown directly on copper substrates or transferred on a gold substrate and their effect on the viability and proliferation of the Gram-positive bacteria Staphylococcus aureus and the Gram-negative bacteria Escherichia coli were assessed. The viability and the proliferation of both bacterial species were not affected when they were grown on a graphene film entirely covering the gold substrate, indicating that conductivity plays no role on bacterial viability and graphene has no antibacterial activity against S. aureus and E. coli. On the other hand, antibacterial activity was observed when graphene coated the copper substrates, resulting from the release of bactericidal cupric ions in inverse proportion to the graphene surface coverage.
description: 24 pages, 7 figures (paper+supplementary material), accepted for publication in Carbon
Interviews and Case Studies on Overcoming Institutional Obstacles to Pedestrian-Safe Urban Design
Creators: name: Marc LeeAndrew Moore
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Municipalities across the U.S., including Chapel Hill, are focusing more on urban design, street design, and land use in an effort to meet connectivity, accessibility, and environmental goals. However, these visions can clash with existing safety requirements in codes and ordinances (legal rules for building and street designs), such as fire codes and engineering standards, which often mandate wider lanes and other things that can jeopardize pedestrian safety. 

Very thorough literature exists on the need for pedestrian safety and the merits of complete streets that accommodate people walking and biking safely rather than solely emphasizing vehicle traffic and parking. However, less literature seems to exist about the specific institutional obstacles in areas like opposition from fire departments or state DOTs, and even less about how municipalities that have successfully worked through streetscape projects with these institutional partners overcame those obstacles. 

As such, I completed a series of interviews with planners who had professional experience with more institutional obstacles from fire departments and public safety, state departments of transportation, or funding mechanisms to get more specific understandings of their direct experiences. I then engaged in content analysis of the interviews, generating a series of key takeaways to relay back to the town of Chapel Hill. This is the resulting report, including interview findings and personal takeaways.
USING CHATBOTS AS TEACHING ASSISTANT WITH OPENAI
Creators: name: SMIT MINESHKUMAR PATEL
name: GAUTAM MINAXIBEN PRAJAPATI
name: VIVEK DILIP MANGLANI
name: Dr. RAMESH T. PRAJAPATI
name: DARSHAN P. PATEL
name: JYOTI V GAUTAM
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: TA-GPT, LLM, AI, ChatGPT, Google Bard, Education, PDF.

description: Abstract
In this growing era of technology, everyone's topic of discussion revolves around Artificial Intelligence. With the access of AI technologies being present at people's fingertips, everyone can access any type of information using Chatbots, especially students. Students nowadays are using these LLM models such as ChatGPT and Google Bard. As these models are trained on data, they can provide more than needed information leading to a decrease in time efficiency. TA-GPT is an AI model made for students to help them in their curriculum. TA-GPT is based on OpenAI's GPT-3.5. TA-GPT helps students to understand things better than a normal LLM model as it would be trained particularly for their interest only. TA-GPT can be trained for particular organizations or particular subjects using PDFs. TA-GPT contributes to AI's overall development in the digital society as students instead of concentrating on non-related data around their subjects or curriculum provided by LLM models and available on the internet, can mainly focus on what's covered in their curriculum leading to time efficiency and accuracy.
Fluid inflation with brane correction
Creators: name: Myrzakulov, Ratbay
name: Sebastiani, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we have investigated the possibility to have inflation from inhomogeneous viscous fluids by taking into account the brane correction coming from string-inspired five dimensional Einsten's gravity. We have realized several kinds of viable solutions for early-time acceleration. At the end of inflation, the classical Einstein's gravity is recovered and fluids produce decelerated expansion.
description: 13 pages
The semantics of Spanish Clitic Left Dislocations with epithets
Creators: name: Estigarribia B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Rioplatense Spanish Clitic Left Dislocations with epithets contain a left-dislocated direct object DP, an in situ direct object epithet DP, and a direct object clitic, all three apparently referring to the same event participant. Previous proposals have focused on syntactic licensing mechanisms but how the epithet's meaning is integrated in the sentence has not been addressed. We assume a multi-propositional framework to first show that these sentences encode two propositions, one at-issue (asserted) and one not-At-issue (non-Asserted). The content of the epithet is absent from the at-issue proposition and is interpreted as a main semantic predicate in the not-At-issue proposition. Furthermore, we argue that this not-At-issue predication is best understood as a conventional implicature. Second, the epithet has been assumed to (unproblematically) pick up the left-dislocated DP as subject of predication. However, with quantified DPs and in intensional contexts the subject of predication may be different from the left-dislocated DP. The behavior of the epithet in these cases is shown to be similar to the behavior of pronouns in intersentential anaphora, thus suggesting that the syntax of this construction is underlyingly biclausal.
Collection of IL-1 [beta] in skeletal muscle using microdialysis
Creators: name: Crownover, Erin Jane
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2021
Subjects: Microdialysis
Cytokines

description: Microdialysis is a technique that allows for the determination of interstitial concentrations of small molecules. Therefore, it can be used to quantify local levels of cytokines within skeletal muscle in both healthy and diseased states. The purpose of this project was to define a microdialysis method to collect interstitial interleukin-1β (IL-1β) in skeletal muscle of rats. Microdialysis probes were constructed with PE-10 tubing and a fiber membrane. The gastrocnemius muscle of a rat was isolated and four probes were inserted prior to attaching those probes to PE-50 tubing and a two-way splitter, that was then connected to a perfusion pump. The pump was set at a constant flow rate of 5 μl/min with saline solution running through the probes. An initial baseline sample of dialysate was taken after probe insertion and a second was taken following a 60 min recovery period. The cytokine of interest (IL-1β) was then injected directly into the skeletal muscle surrounding the probes. Samples were collected following injection and then every 10 min for an hour. For each time point, dialysate was collected for 4 min across all probes and then pooled together. Dialysate samples need to be analyzed to quantify IL-1β and this can be done using a Luminex 200 instrument (Luminex Corp, Austin TX). After establishment of this technique at rest, it can then be applied during muscle contraction. Microdialysis is a useful technique for quantifying local levels of cytokines within skeletal muscle. As such, this method will facilitate research into the concentrations of cytokines within skeletal muscle, both at rest and during contraction, in healthy and diseased states
Book of Abstracts of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 5th conference. Riga, 20–23 October 2020
Creators: name: Reinsone, Sanita
name: Baklāne, Anda
name: Jānis Daugavietis
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Digital Humanities
DHN2020
Riga

description: Book of Abstracts DHN, Rīga 2020 Book of Abstracts of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 5th conference. Riga, 20–23 October 2020
 Conference website:
 http://dig-hum-nord.eu/conferences/dhn2020 Editors:
 Sanita Reinsone, Anda Baklāne, Jānis Daugavietis Editorial assistants:
 Justīne Jaudzema, Ilze Ļaksa-Timinska Cover: Anete Krūmiņa Publisher:
 Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art (University of Latvia)
 lulfmi.lv
 Rīga, 2020 ISBN 978-9984-850-83-2
 DOI 10.5281/zenodo.4107117
Valiente Kroon's obstructions to smoothness at infinity
Creators: name: Grant, James
name: Tod, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We conjecture an interpretation in terms of multipole moments of the obstructions to smoothness at infinity found for time-symmetric, conformally-flat initial data by Valiente Kroon (Comm. Math. Phys. 244 (2004), 133-156).
description: To appear in GRG
Technical challenges of studying early human development.
Creators: name: Rugg-Gunn, Peter J
name: Moris, Naomi
name: Tam, Patrick PL
Publisher: name: The Francis Crick Institute
Year: 2023
Subjects: Synthetic Biology
Gene Expression
Developmental Biology
Human Biology & Physiology
Stem Cells
Computational & Systems Biology

description: Recent years have seen exciting progress across human embryo research, including new methods for culturing embryos, transcriptional profiling of embryogenesis and gastrulation, mapping lineage trajectories, and experimenting on stem cell-based embryo models. These advances are beginning to define the dynamical principles of development across stages, tissues and organs, enabling a better understanding of human development before birth in health and disease, and potentially leading to improved treatments for infertility and developmental disorders. However, there are still significant roadblocks en route to this goal. Here, we highlight technical challenges to studying early human development and propose ways and means to overcome some of these constraints.
Editorial: Advancing our commitment to antiracist scholarship
Creators: name: Wooten, N.R.
name: Bellamy, J.L.
name: Marsh, J.C.
name: Herrenkohl, T.I.
name: Lee, J.O.
name: Jenson, J.M.
name: Williford, A.
name: Solomon, P.
name: Bunger, A.C.
name: Lee, B.R.
name: Chen, D.-G.
name: Fedina, L.
Publisher: name: University of Chicago Press
Year: 2020

description: Social work prides itself as a profession committed to improving the lives of people who are vulnerable, oppressed, and living in poverty. Achieving this mission requires candid conversations about racism as a social justice and public health issue and the role of social work in dismantling white supremacy and promoting racial justice. At its core, research on social work practice and policy should focus on examining how racism and inequality undermine the health, well-being, and social mobility of diverse and marginalized populations. We write this statement as a call to social work researchers to prioritize pursuits that will surface and motivate action to address the causes and consequences of racism. We also call on researchers to renew their commitment to scholarship that alleviates the suffering in Black, Indigenous, and other communities of color.
A homoscedasticity test for the accelerated failure time model
Creators: name: Yu, L.
name: Liu, L.
name: Chen, D.-G.
Publisher: name: Springer Verlag
Year: 2019

description: The semiparametric accelerated failure time (AFT) model is a popular linear model in survival analysis. AFT model and its associated inference methods assume homoscedasticity of the survival data. It is shown that violation of this assumption will lead to inefficient parameter estimation and anti-conservative confidence interval estimation, and thus, misleading conclusions in survival data analysis. However, there is no valid statistical test proposed to test the homoscedasticity assumption. In this paper, we propose the first novel quasi-likelihood ratio test for the homoscedasticity assumption in the AFT model. Simulation studies show the test performs well. A real dataset is used to demonstrate the usefulness of the developed test.
On the number of k-dominating independent sets
Creators: name: Nagy, Zoltán Lóránt
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C69, 05C35

description: We study the existence and the number of $k$-dominating independent sets in certain graph families. While the case $k=1$ namely the case of maximal independent sets - which is originated from Erdős and Moser - is widely investigated, much less is known in general. In this paper we settle the question for trees and prove that the maximum number of $k$-dominating independent sets in $n$-vertex graphs is between $c_k\cdot\sqrt[2k]{2}^n$ and $c_k'\cdot\sqrt[k+1]{2}^n$ if $k\geq 2$, moreover the maximum number of $2$-dominating independent sets in $n$-vertex graphs is between $c\cdot 1.22^n$ and $c'\cdot1.246^n$. Graph constructions containing a large number of $k$-dominating independent sets are coming from product graphs, complete bipartite graphs and with finite geometries. The product graph construction is associated with the number of certain MDS codes.
description: 13 pages
Characteristics Associated With High-Impact Pain in People With Temporomandibular Disorder: A Cross-Sectional Study
Creators: name: Poole, C.
name: Slade, G.D.
name: Miller, V.E.
name: Barrett, D.
name: Ohrbach, R.
name: Chen, D.-G.
name: Greenspan, J.D.
name: Fillingim, R.B.
name: Golightly, Y.
Publisher: name: Churchill Livingstone Inc.
Year: 2019

description: High-impact (disabling) pain diminishes the quality of life and increases health care costs. The purpose of this study was to identify the variables that distinguish between high- and low-impact pain among individuals with painful temporomandibular disorder (TMD). Community-dwelling adults (N = 846) with chronic TMD completed standardized questionnaires that assessed the following: 1) sociodemographic characteristics, 2) psychological distress, 3) clinical pain, and 4) experimental pain. We used high-impact pain, classified using the Graded Chronic Pain Scale, as the dependent variable in logistic regression modeling to evaluate the contribution of variables from each domain. Cross-validated area under the receiver operating characteristic curve (AUC) quantified model discrimination. One-third of the participants had high-impact pain. Sociodemographic variables discriminated weakly between low- and high-impact pain (AUC =.61, 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.57, 0.65), with the exception of race. An 18-variable model encompassing all 4 domains had good discrimination (AUC = 0.79, 95% CI = 0.75, 0.82), as did a simplified model (sociodemographic variables plus catastrophizing, jaw limitation, and number of painful body sites) (AUC = 0.79, 95% CI = 0.76, 0.82). Duration of pain, sex, and experimental pain testing results were not associated. The characteristics that discriminated most effectively between people with low- and high-impact TMD pain included clinical pain features and the ability to cope with pain. Perspective: This article presents the results of a multivariable model designed to discriminate between people with high- and low-impact pain in a community-based sample of people with painful chronic TMD. The findings emphasize the importance of catastrophizing, jaw limitation, and painful body sites associated with pain-related impact.
Dynamically controlling the emission of single excitons in photonic crystal cavities
Creators: name: Pagliano, Francesco
name: Cho, YongJin
name: Xia, Tian
name: van Otten, Frank
name: Johne, Robert
name: Fiore, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 81V10, 81V65, 81V80

description: Single excitons in semiconductor microcavities represent a solid-state and scalable platform for cavity quantum electrodynamics (c-QED), potentially enabling an interface between flying (photon) and static (exciton) quantum bits in future quantum networks. While both single-photon emission and the strong coupling regime have been demonstrated, further progress has been hampered by the inability to control the coherent evolution of the c-QED system in real time, as needed to produce and harness charge-photon entanglement. Here, using the ultrafast electrical tuning of the exciton energy in a photonic crystal (PhC) diode, we demonstrate the dynamic control of the coupling of a single exciton to a PhC cavity mode on a sub-ns timescale, faster than the natural lifetime of the exciton, for the first time. This opens the way to the control of single-photon waveforms, as needed for quantum interfaces, and to the real-time control of solid-state c-QED systems.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures
title: On the reification of non-human life forms
Creators: name: Bürchner, Moritz Wilhelm
Year: 2024

description: Verdinglichung ist ein Begriff aus der Tradition des westlichen Marxismus und der Kritischen Theorie. Mit dem Begriff wird versucht ontologisch falsche Beziehungen zu erfassen. Axel Honneth hat aus dieser Tradition kommend zu diesem Thema gearbeitet. Er hat seine Konzeptualisierung auf seine Anerkennungstheorie aufgebaut und die Position entwickelt, dass Verdinglichungsphänomenen eine Anerkennungsvergessenheit zugrunde liegt. Eine seiner Aussagen ist, dass der Begriff auf menschliche Beziehungen angewendet werden kann, aber nicht direkt im Fall von menschlichen Beziehungen zur nicht menschlichen Umwelt. In dieser Arbeit wird Honneths Position bezüglich dieser Aussage kritisiert und erweitert. Es wird argumentiert, dass eine direkt verdinglichende Beziehung zu nicht menschlichen Lebensformen, zu Tieren und Pflanzen, möglich ist. Auf seiner Arbeit aufbauend wird die Position präsentiert, dass Verdinglichung von nicht menschlichen Lebensformen als eine Lebensvergessenheit konzeptualisiert werden kann.
description: Reification is a concept that is part of the tradition of Western Marxism and Critical Theory. With the concept, ontologically false relationships are tried to be grasped. Axel Honneth is the latest author in this tradition who worked on this topic. He built his conceptualization on his theory of recognition and developed the position that forgetfulness of recognition is at the ground of reification phenomena. One of his claims is that the concept can be applied to human relationships but not directly in the case of human relationships with the non-human environment. In the thesis, Honneth`s position is criticized and expanded with regard to this claim. The claim is made that a directly reifying relationship with non-human life forms, precisely animals and plants, is indeed possible. Building on his work, the position is presented that reification of non-human life forms can be conceptualized as a forgetfulness of life.
Possible Implication of a Single Nonextensive $p_T$ Distribution for Hadron Production in High-Energy $pp$ Collisions
Creators: name: Wong, Cheuk-Yin
name: Wilk, Grzegorz
name: Cirto, Leonardo J. L.
name: Tsallis, Constantino
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multiparticle production processes in $pp$ collisions at the central rapidity region are usually considered to be divided into independent "soft" and "hard" components. The first is described by exponential (thermal-like) transverse momentum spectra in the low-$p_T$ region with a scale parameter $T$ associated with the temperature of the hadronizing system. The second is governed by a power-like distributions of transverse momenta with power index $n$ at high-$p_T$ associated with the hard scattering between partons. We show that the hard-scattering integral can be approximated as a nonextensive distribution of a quasi-power-law containing a scale parameter $T$ and a power index $n=1/(q -1)$, where $q$ is the nonextensivity parameter. We demonstrate that the whole region of transverse momenta presently measurable at LHC experiments at central rapidity (in which the observed cross sections varies by $14$ orders of magnitude down to the low $p_T$ region) can be adequately described by a single nonextensive distribution. These results suggest the dominance of the hard-scattering hadron-production process and the approximate validity of a "no-hair" statistical-mechanical description of the $p_T$ spectra for the whole $p_T$ region at central rapidity for $pp$ collisions at high-energies.
description: 10 pages, 3 figures; presented by G.Wilk at the XLIV International Symposium on Multiparticle Dynamics; 8 - 12 September 2014 - Bologna, ITALY