cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The Effect of Remote Storage on the Use of Books
Creators: name: Peper, Michael T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008
Subjects: College and university libraries--Space problems
Use studies--College and university libraries
Storage of books, periodicals, etc.

description: Remote storage has become an increasingly popular response to the overcrowding of open-stack areas in academic libraries. While many institutions have chosen this option and there has been much discussion about administration of such facilities, its impact on patrons is still unclear. Some potential user limitations of remote storage considered by this study are delayed retrieval, loss of browsability, and the barrier of making a retrieval request.    The current study was conducted at the Chemistry and Art Libraries at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. It observed the use of materials that had been selected for transfer to remote storage, where half of these selected materials were transferred to remote storage and the other half remained on open library stacks. After an average of approximately two months of observation, none of the selected books had circulated, suggesting that their selection for remote storage was appropriate.
MS Gr. class. c. 5 1003
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 336/1150 col. 24. Polystratus, De contemptu
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
Testing for Differences in Survey-Based Density Expectations. A Compositional Data Approach
Creators: name: Dovern, Jonas
name: Glas, Alexander
name: Kenny, Geoff
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: compositional data
subject: density forecasts
subject: survey forecasts
subject: disagreement
subject: 330 Wirtschaft

description: We propose to treat survey-based density expectations as compositional data when testing either for heterogeneity in density forecasts across different groups of agents or for changes over time. Monte Carlo simulations show that the proposed test has more power relative to both a bootstrap approach based on the KLIC and an approach which involves multiple testing for differences of individual parts of the density. In addition, the test is computaionally much faster than the KLIC-based one, which relies on simulations, and allows for comparisons across multiple groups. Using density expectations from the ECB Survey of Professional Forecasters and the U.S. Survey of Consumer Expectations, we show the usefulness of the test in detecting possible changes in density expectations over time and across different types of forecasters.
Non-Gaussian forecasts of weak lensing with and without priors
Creators: name: Sellentin, Elena
name: Schäfer, Björn Malte
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Assuming a Euclid-like weak lensing data set, we compare different methods of dealing with its inherent parameter degeneracies. Including priors into a data analysis can mask the information content of a given data set alone. However, since the information content of a data set is usually estimated with the Fisher matrix, priors are added in order to enforce an approximately Gaussian likelihood. Here, we compare priorless forecasts to more conventional forecasts that use priors. We find strongly non-Gaussian likelihoods for 2d-weak lensing if no priors are used, which we approximate with the DALI-expansion. Without priors, the Fisher matrix of the 2d-weak lensing likelihood includes unphysical values of $Ω_m$ and $h$, since it does not capture the shape of the likelihood well. The Cramer-Rao inequality then does not need to apply. We find that DALI and Monte Carlo Markov Chains predict the presence of a dark energy with high significance, whereas a Fisher forecast of the same data set also allows decelerated expansion. We also find that a 2d-weak lensing analysis provides a sharp lower limit on the Hubble constant of $h > 0.4$, even if the equation of state of dark energy is jointly constrained by the data. This is not predicted by the Fisher matrix and usually masked in other works by a sharp prior on $h$. Additionally, we find that DALI estimates Figures of Merit in the presence of non-Gaussianities better than the Fisher matrix. We additionally demonstrate how DALI allows switching to a Hamiltonian Monte Carlo sampling of a highly curved likelihood with acceptance rates of $\approx 0.5$, an effective covering of the parameter space, and numerically effectively costless leapfrog steps. This shows how quick forecasts can be upgraded to accurate forecasts whenever needed. Results were gained with the public code from http://lnasellentin.github.io/DALI/
description: 9 pages, 7 figures
Forecasting a Nonstationary Time Series Using a Mixture of Stationary and Nonstationary Factors as Predictors
Creators: name: Hannadige, Sium Bodha
name: Gao, Jiti
name: Silvapulle, Mervyn J
name: Silvapulle, Param
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: We develop a method for constructing prediction intervals for a nonstationary variable, such as GDP. The method uses a factor augmented regression [FAR] model. The predictors in the model include a small number of factors generated to extract most of the information in a set of panel data on a large number of macroeconomic variables that are considered to be potential predictors. The novelty of this paper is that it provides a method and justification for a mixture of stationary and nonstationary factors as predictors in the FAR model; we refer to this as mixture-FAR method. This method is important because typically such a large set of panel data, for example the FRED-QD, is likely to contain a mixture of stationary and nonstationary variables. In our simulation study, we observed that the proposed mixture-FAR method performed better than its competitor that requires all the predictors to be nonstationary; the MSE of prediction was at least 33% lower for mixture-FAR. Using the data in FRED-QD for the US, we evaluated the aforementioned methods for forecasting the nonstationary variables, GDP and Industrial Production. We observed that the mixture-FAR method performed better than its competitors.
Advanced Fabrication Processes for Superconducting Very Large Scale Integrated Circuits
Creators: name: Tolpygo, Sergey K.
name: Bolkhovsky, Vladimir
name: Weir, T. J.
name: Wynn, Alex
name: Oates, D. E.
name: Johnson, L. M.
name: Gouker, M. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review the salient features of two advanced nodes of an 8-Nb-layer fully planarized process developed recently at MIT Lincoln Laboratory for fabricating Single Flux Quantum(SFQ) digital circuits with very large scale integration on 200-mm wafers: the SFQ4ee and SFQ5ee nodes, where 'ee' denotes the process is tuned for energy efficient SFQ circuits. The former has eight superconducting layers with 0.5 μm minimum feature size and a 2 Ω/sq Mo layer for circuit resistors. The latter has nine superconducting layers: eight Nb wiring layers with the minimum feature size of 350 nm and a thin superconducting MoNx layer (Tc ~ 7.5 K) with high kinetic inductance (about 8 pH/sq) for forming compact inductors. A nonsuperconducting (Tc < 2 K) MoNx layer with lower nitrogen content is used for 6 Ω/sq planar resistors for shunting and biasing of Josephson junctions. Another resistive layer is added to form interlayer, sandwich-type resistors of mΩ range for releasing unwanted flux quanta from superconducting loops of logic cells. Both process nodes use Au/Pt/Ti contact metallization for chip packaging. The technology utilizes one layer of Nb/AlOx-Al/Nb JJs with critical current density, Jc of 100 μA/μm^2 and minimum diameter of 700 nm. Circuit patterns are defined by 248-nm photolithography and high density plasma etching. All circuit layers are fully planarized using chemical mechanical planarization (CMP) of SiO2 interlayer dielectric. The following results and topics are presented and discussed: the effect of surface topography under the JJs on the their properties and repeatability, critical current and Jc targeting, effect of hydrogen dissolved in Nb, MoNx properties for the resistor layer and for high kinetic inductance layer, technology of mΩ-range resistors.
description: 10 pages, 12 figures, 1 table, 27 references. The paper was presented on September 8, 2015 at the 12th European Conference on Applied Superconductivity, EUCAS 2015, 6-10 September 2015, Lyon, France, IEEE Transaction on Applied Superconductivity, 2016
protocol
Creators: name: Myhre, Martin
name: Walby, Fredrik
name: Bramness, Jørgen
name: Mehlum, Lars
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Substance Abuse and Addiction
subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Mental and Social Health
subject: mental health services
subject: psychiatric comorbidity
subject: service utilization
subject: substance use disorders
subject: substance use disorder services
subject: suicide

description: This is a exploryatory hypothesis generating study where no hypothesis are tested.
MS Gr. class. c. 5 1004
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 336/1150 col. 25. Polystratus, De contemptu
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
How May We Help? Perspectives on Law Librarian Support of Students in Law School Clinics
Creators: name: Neisler, Virginia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014
Subjects: Law librarians
Information services--User education

description: In the face of economic pressures and educational policy challenges, law schools nationwide have begun to shift away from doctrinal teaching toward practice-oriented instruction. Legal research instruction is also in flux, with research instructors and law librarians attempting to prepare students for real-world research. Law school clinics offer unique opportunities for law librarians to support students as they engage in real-world legal research. To explore the legal research skills required by clinical work as well as the research support and instruction students currently receive, interviews were conducted with 14 clinicians. The goal of this study is two-fold. First, to identify those skills and resources on which librarians can focus during instruction. Second, clinicians were asked to describe the support, if any, that the clinic or clinic students received from librarians in hopes of facilitating discussion between librarians and clinics as they work together to better serve students through formalized relationships.
Geometric approach to the MacWilliams Extension Theorem for codes over modules
Creators: name: Dyshko, Serhii
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The MacWilliams Extension Theorem states that each linear Hamming isometry of a linear code extends to a monomial map. In this paper an analogue of the extension theorem for linear codes over a module alphabet is observed. A geometric approach to the extendability of isometries is described. For a matrix module alphabet we found the minimum length of a code for which an unextendable Hamming isometry exists. We also proved an extension theorem for MDS codes over a module alphabet.
From suffrage to postfeminism: an evolution of the Library of Congress subject treatment of women's issues
Creators: name: Hyde, Kara
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2002
Subjects: Feminism--United States--History--20th Century
Women--United States--History--20th Century
Sexism in language
Subject cataloging
Subject headings, Library of Congress
Subject headings, Women

description: This paper will attempt to draw parallels between the evolution of societal views of women and the evolution of the Library of Congress subject headings and references used to describe them. The research underlying the paper was accomplished through examination of the 24 editions of the Library of Congress subject headings (1910-2001) and the different waves of feminism that occurred throughout the century. The social movements of the 1960s raised awareness of what some deemed as biased language in society, eventually prompting the Library of Congress to make significant changes to its cataloging practices and headings in the mid 1970s. From headings such as WOMEN-SOCIAL AND MORAL QUESTIONS, to terms such as LESBIAN FEMINISM and ECOFEMINISM, the LCSH are evidence of social change.
Program Definitions and Public Costs, Beltwide Boll Weevil/Cotton Insect Management Programs (Appendix D)
Creators: name: Natural Resource Economics Division, Economics
name: Natural Resource Economics Division, Economics
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1981
Subjects: subject: Crop Production/Industries
subject: Production Economics
subject: Public Economics
subject: Research and Development/Tech Change/Emerging Technologies
subject: cotton
subject: boll weevil
subject: insect management
subject: public costs

description: Implementation plans were outlined and respective public costs were estimated for six beltwide boll weevil/cotton insect management programs in boll weevil-infested areas. Public cost is only one component of an economic evaluation of alternative programs. If fully implemented, annual public costs of the programs would be: current insect control (CIC), $2.5 million; optimum pest management with incentives (OPM-I), $36 million; OPM with phased incentives (OPM-PI), $7 million; OPM with no incentives (OPM-NI) $7 million; OPM-NI with boll weevil eradication (OPM-NI-BWE), $7.5 million; and CIC-BWE, $3 million. However, estimated public and private costs would total $460 million during the 9 years to eradicate the boll weevil. Also, public costs for diapause treatments for the OPM program with phased incentives would total about $6l million during the 3 years of implementation.
description: In cooperation with Southern State Departments of Agriculture, Agricultural Experiment Stations, and Cooperative Extension Services.
MS Gr. class. c. 5 1005
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 336/1150 col. 23. Polystratus, De contemptu
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
Coordinating Truck Platooning by Clustering Pairwise Fuel-Optimal Plans
Creators: name: van de Hoef, Sebastian
name: Johansson, Karl H.
name: Dimarogonas, Dimos V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: We consider the fuel-optimal coordination of trucks into platoons. Truck platooning is a promising technology that enables trucks to save significant amounts of fuel by driving close together and thus reducing air drag. We study how fuel-optimal speed profiles for platooning can be computed. A first-order fuel model is considered and pairwise optimal plans are derived. We formulate an optimization problem that combines these pairwise plans into an overall plan for a large number of trucks. The problem resembles a medoids clustering problem. We propose an approximation algorithm similar to the partitioning around medoids algorithm and discuss its convergence. The method is evaluated with Monte Carlo simulations. We demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can compute a plan for thousands of trucks and that significant fuel savings can be achieved.
description: To appear in the proceedings of Intelligent Transporation Systems (ITSC), 2015 IEEE 18th International Conference on, 15-18 September 2015
MS Gr. class. c. 5 1006
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 336/1150 col. 26. Polystratus, De contemptu
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
Collection Development Policy Addendum: American Philatelic Research Library Special Collections and Archives
Creators: name: Zirkle, Robbin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013
Subjects: Libraries--Special collections
Collection development (Libraries)--Policy statements
Archives

description: This document follows the development of a collection development policy addendum for the American Philatelic Research Library's Special Collections and Archives.  After a review of the organization's existing collection development policy, a thorough review of pertinent literature was undertaken to inform practices for developing an addendum for these collections.  Next, a community needs assessment was performed and similar policies for other small special and/or public libraries were reviewed.  All of these steps guided the creation of a proposed collection development policy addendum submitted to the APRL at the conclusion of this project.
Improving the Accessibility of Web Sites for Visually Impaired Individuals
Creators: name: Childres, Daphne J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007
Subjects: Web sites--Design
Computers and people with disabilities
Web sites--Evaluation
Libraries and people with visual disabilities
People with disabilities--Internet resources

description: This study explores accessibility issues related to Web sites and people with visual impairments. A large number of individuals have these impairments and these individuals should have equal access to information, resources, and services. Guidelines exist that help web designers develop sites that are accessible. One of these set of guidelines is the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 1.0. Universal design principles should be used in order to help make sites as accessible to as many individuals as possible. This study examined the Web sites of Protection and Advocacy (P&A) agencies. In this study, the current Web sites of these agencies were compared to the sites of these agencies from 2001. The results of this study show that the accessibility of the current P&A Web sites had improved in the last five years. However, there are still issues related to creating accessible Web sites that need to be explored further.
D4.3 - Citizen Science Projects on Deep Sea Hunters
Creators: name: De Wasseige, Gwenhaël
name: Paschal Coyle
name: Hemming, Gary
name: Breton, Rémy Le
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: This document describes the work done on the citizen-project developed using data provided by the KM3NeT collaboration within the REINFORCE project.
Direct Evidence of the Transition from Weak to Strong MHD Turbulence
Creators: name: Meyrand, Romain
name: Galtier, Sebastien
name: Kiyani, Khurom H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: Chaotic Dynamics (nlin.CD)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One of the most important predictions in magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) is that in the presence of a uniform magnetic field $\textbf{b}_{0}$ a transition from weak to strong wave turbulence should occur when going from large to small perpendicular scales. This transition is believed to be a universal property of several anisotropic turbulent systems. We present for the first time direct evidence of such a transition thanks to a three-dimensional direct numerical simulation of incompressible balanced MHD turbulence with a grid resolution of $3072^2 \times 256$. From large to small-scales, the change of regime is characterized by i) a change of slope in the energy spectrum going from approximately $-2$ to $-3/2$; ii) an increase of the ratio between the wave and nonlinear times, with a critical ratio of $χ_{c}\sim0.35$; iii) an absence followed by a dramatic increase of the communication between Alfvén modes; and iv) a modification of the iso-contours of energy revealing a transition from a purely perpendicular cascade to a cascade compatible with the critical balance type phenomenology. All these changes happen at approximately the same transition scale and therefore can be seen as manifest signatures of the transition from weak to strong wave turbulence.
MS Gr. class. c. 5 1007
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 336/1150 col. 27. Polystratus, De contemptu
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
MS Gr. class. c. 5 1008
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 336/1150 col. 28. Polystratus, De contemptu
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
Orthogonal Cherenkov sound in spin-orbit coupled systems
Creators: name: Smirnov, Sergey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Conventionally the Cherenkov sound is governed by {\it orbital} degrees of freedom and is excited by {\it supersonic} particles. Additionally, it usually has a {\it forward} nature with a conic geometry known as the Cherenkov cone whose axis is oriented {\it along} the {\it supersonic} particle motion. Here we predict Cherenkov sound of a unique nature entirely resulting from the electronic {\it spin} degree of freedom and demonstrate a fundamentally distinct Cherenkov effect originating from essentially {\it subsonic} electrons in two-dimensional gases with both Bychkov-Rashba and Dresselhaus spin-orbit interactions. Specifically, we show that the axis of the conventional {\it forward} Cherenkov cone gets a nontrivial {\it quarter-turn} and at the same time the sound distribution strongly localizes around this rotated axis being now {\it orthogonal} to the {\it subsonic} particle motion. Apart from its fundamentally appealing nature, the orthogonal Cherenkov sound could have applications in planar semiconductor technology combining spin and acoustic phenomena to develop, {\it e.g.}, acoustic amplifiers or sound sources with a flexible spin dependent orientation of the sound propagation.
description: 7 pages, 4 figures
100 years of advertising in Library Journal: 1876-1976, A brief survey
Creators: name: Joyner, Deborah W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005
Subjects: Advertising Evaluation
LJ
Library Journal
Publisher and Publishing History

description: This study describes the use of paid advertisements in the periodical, Library Journal. The survey was conducted to determine the quantity of ads over time, identify categories of advertisers, and note changes in presentation of ads in order to provide an a historical perspective on advertisements for the library market. Covering a century, advertisements were taken from two issues of Library Journal per year in five-year increments. Over the 100 year period, the amount of advertising space tended to increase, nearing a 50:50 ratio of advertising pages to content pages. The advertising also changed, increasingly featuring more publishers' advertisements and more classified advertising.
RRR - Dijksterhuis - KLEIN
Creators: name: CO3, CeSCuP
name: Klein, Olivier
name: Van der Linden, Nicolas
name: Pantazi, Myrto
name: Eberlen, Julia
name: Destrebecqz, Arnaud
name: Cleeremans, Axel
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Our laboratory's Implementation of the Dijksterhuis RRR protocol
A prototype publication service for the Internet2 DSI project
Creators: name: Wang, Huahong (Rebecca)
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2000
Subjects: electronic publication
I2-DSI
replication
Distributed storage
resolution
push channel

description: This thesis presents the development of a prototype publication service for I2-DSI project. The Internet2 Distributed Storage Infrastructure (I2-DSI) project is developing an open architecture for scalable, robust middleware that will enable wide-area replication services for the research and education communities. In the current phase, the project has a wide-area testbed of six large storage servers, each running a common profile of software that supports demonstration content channels. This paper presents the motivation for source-object replication architecture, the approach to replication adopted by I2-DSI, and our recent efforts to dynamically create and manage content channels in D2-DSI without a system administration's intervention. Thus, the channel publication service presented focuses on enhancing the usefulness of the I2-DSI replication service by allowing users to publish and manage their materials in an autonomous fashion.
Exploring inside-out Doppler tomography: non-magnetic cataclysmic variables
Creators: name: Kotze, E. J.
name: Potter, S. B.
name: McBride, V. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Doppler tomography is a technique that has revolutionised the interpretation of the phase-resolved spectroscopic observations of interacting binary systems. We present the results of our investigation of reversing the velocity axis to create an inside-out Doppler coordinate framework with the intent to expose overly compacted and enhance washed out emission details in the standard Doppler framework. The inside-out tomogram is constructed independently of the standard tomogram by directly projecting phase-resolved spectra onto an inside-out velocity coordinate frame. For the inside-out framework, the zero-velocity origin is transposed to the outer circumference and the maximum velocities to the origin of the velocity space. We test the technique on a simulated system and two real systems with easily identifiable features, namely the accretion disc and bright spot in WZ Sge, and spiral shocks in IP Peg. Our tests show that there is a redistribution of the relative brightness of emission components throughout the tomograms, i.e., where the standard framework tends to concentrate and enhance lower velocity features towards the origin, the inside-out velocity framework tends to concentrate and enhance higher velocity features towards the origin. Conversely, the standard framework disperses and smears the higher velocities farther away from the origin whereas the inside-out framework disperses and smears the lower velocities. In addition, the projection of the accretion disc in velocity space now appears correctly orientated with the inner edge close to the maximum velocity origin and its outer edge closer to the zero-velocity outer circumference. Furthermore, the gas stream and secondary star are projected on the outside of the disc with the bright spot of the stream-disc impact region on the disc's outer edge in the inside-out velocity space.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, published in A&A
The Enigma of cancer resistance to treatment
Creators: name: Erenpreisa, Jekaterina
name: Salmina, Kristine
name: Anatskaya, Olga
name: Vinogradov, Alexander
name: Cragg, Mark Steven
Publisher: name: Organisms
Year: 2022

description: Polyploid giant cancer cells (PGCC) are evaluated by histopathologists for cancer diagnosis, yet their role in cancer is poorly understood. In this essay, we highlight a particular aspect of these cells in relation to genomic self-organisation and transcriptional networks with relevance to treatment resistance. Embodying dynamic restructuring of the genomic network, epigenome and microenvironment, through explorative adaptation in response to sublethal challenge these cells operate at the edge of chaos and order. This state is manifested through oscillations in opposing cell fate pathways, with accelerated senescence coupled to reprogramming and an atavistic shift towards phylogenetically ancient unicellular genetic programmes accessed through bivalent mediator genes. It recapitulates certain unicellular life-cycles in a cancer “life-cycle” which reciprocally connects the somatic mitotic cell cycle with the germline cycle of the PGCC.
description: Organisms, Vol 5, No 2 (2022): Special Issue: Where is Science Going? Scenarios and Perspectives of Contemporary Technoscience
title: Constructing the self: EFL teacher narratives
Creators: name: Pinto, Maria Angeli
Publisher: name: University of Southern Queensland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 130313 Teacher Education and Professional Development of Educators

description: The study provides a holistic snapshot of the personal and professional lives of long-term native English-speaking (NES) English-as-a-foreign-language (EFL) teachers. I interviewed eight NES EFL teachers, four working in South Korea, and four in Japan. The teachers had taught EFL for at least ten years and had taught English in two or more countries. The teachers talked about their backgrounds, their attitudes to language learning and the languages they had learnt, about teaching and the workplaces and countries they had worked in. They discussed the most challenging aspects of living and working in other countries, and how their experiences in other countries had changed them. My stories of how my life impacted on the design of the study, and how conducting the study changed my life appear as reflections between the chapters.

Narrative inquiry, which foregrounds the voices and viewpoints of research participants (Clandinin & Connelly, 2000), was used to analyse and report on the teachers’ stories. Narratives were analysed both holistically and categorically (Josselson, 2011). In the holistic analysis, what the teachers said was analysed as part of their whole narrative. In the categorical analysis, similar themes that emerged in the teacher’s stories were compared and the findings of these discussed. To perform the categorical analysis, the teachers’ stories were coded using grounded theory principles outlined by Charmaz (2006).

The teachers’ stories add to the growing body of literature on NES EFL teachers. The study confirmed and added detail to what has been known about NES EFL teachers: that personal reasons power teachers’ decisions to stay in EFL. Long term NES EFL teachers used sideways moves, into teaching different levels, teaching at different workplaces, and teaching in different countries, and set their own professional development goals, to maintain their motivation. The study found that the country itself made a difference to the degree to which the teacher chose to assimilate into the local culture, and that teachers’ attitudes to learning the local language were a good predictor of their investment in staying in the country. The teachers in Japan were more focused on learning Japanese and meeting local norms than the teachers in South Korea, even when the teachers in South Korea expressed positive feelings towards the country. It is hypothesized that the differences might have been because of age differences, differences in the amount of time spent in the country, or because of relationship status differences between the teachers in South Korea and the teachers in Japan. Seven of the eight teachers agreed that living in other countries had changed them dramatically, comparing who they are now to an imagined baseline self that they would have been had they stayed home, to talk about their personal growth.
title: Substantive public policy in cross-border litigation: a common law study
Creators: name: McKibbin, Sarah
Publisher: name: University of Southern Queensland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 180107 Conflict of Laws (Private International Law)

description: This thesis examines the evolution of the substantive public policy exclusion in the cross-border litigation of major Anglo-common law jurisdictions. The substantive doctrine of public policy in its domestic and cross-border spheres of operation has long courted criticism for its uncertainty, ambiguity, and unruliness. As a means by which to exclude foreign law or deny recognition to a foreign judgment, cross-border public policy ultimately involves a moral evaluation of foreign law. This thesis sets out to deepen existing scholarly understanding of the historical and theoretical development of the substantive exception in cross-border litigation in Anglo-common law jurisdictions. In addition, it aims to rehabilitate the reputation of substantive public policy, which is still occasionally characterised as an ‘unruly horse’ in need of taming. It fulfils this aim by examining substantive public policy’s modern content in the jurisprudence of major Anglo-common law jurisdictions and recommending two new species of exception: public international law and foreign governmental interests.
An Examination of the Effectiveness of an Online Library Jargon Glossary
Creators: name: Foster, Elizabeth
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010
Subjects: Surveys--Internet resources
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill--Web sites
Terminology--Internet resources

description: The purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of the online library jargon glossary published by UNC Libraries. The glossary, developed by UNC Libraries Staff, is a resource that provides definitions for library terminology. Glossaries are becoming an increasingly common element of library websites, however, little research has been done on their effectiveness as a resource for their intended audience. This quantitative and qualitative study illustrates that users who access a glossary do not understand library jargon better than user who do not. Suggestions for enhancing glossaries and library jargon teaching methods are provided.
MS Gr. class. c. 5 1009
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 336/1150 col. 29. Polystratus, De contemptu
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
A Relatively Easy Guide to Applying Useful Large-Sample Techniques in Survey Sampling
Creators: name: Kott, Phillip
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Asymptotics
Consistent
Mean-squared error
Probability order
Design-based
Calibration-weighted estimator

description: Why is it that one can say the weighted estimator for a ratio is nearly (i.e., asymptotically) unbiased and its mean-squared error nearly equal to it variance? These questions and similar ones will be answered by taking a careful, but not thoroughly rigorous, look at the large-sample theory supporting such assertions. The goal will be to provide an understanding of when large-sample techniques should be applied and when it is, at best, questionable to do so.
A combined model for the pseudorapidity distributions in p-p collisions at center-of-mass energies from 23.6 to 7000 GeV
Creators: name: Jiang, Zhi-Jin
name: Huang, Yan
name: Wang, Jie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In p-p collisions, the produced charge particles consist of two leading particles and those frozen out from the hot and dense matter created in collisions. The two leading particles are respectively in the projectile and target fragmentation region, which, in this paper, are conventionally supposed to have Gaussian rapidity distributions. The hot and dense matter is assumed to expand according to the unified hydrodynamics, a hydro model which unifies the features of Landau and Hwa-Bjorken model, and freeze out into charged particles from a space-like hypersurface with a fixed proper time of Tau_FO. The rapidity distribution of this part of charged particles can be derived out analytically. The combined contribution from both leading particles and unified hydrodynamics is then compared against the experimental data performed in a wide now available center-of-mass energy region from 23.6 to 7000 GeV. The model predictions are in well consistent with experimental measurements.
A Sustainable GIS-Based Serious Game Approach to Improve Railways Resilience
Creators: name: Soroudi, M; Gordan, M; Ko, I; Carrol P; McCrum, D; Pilla, F.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Railway Infrastructures have been globally emphasized due to their crucial role in supporting everyday life by providing the flow of supplies, and services across the world. Therefore, considerable efforts have been devoted widely to improve the aforesaid systems' efficiency, resilience, and long-term viability. Being increasingly at risk from cyber-physical threats and natural disasters, as well as the interrelationships between critical infrastructures especially in smart cities, have made the situation more complex and highly challenging for urban planners to manage the impacts of cascading effects, develop mitigation plans and rapid recovery. Previous studies indicate that a promising approach to provide a valid environment for the elicitation of expert knowledge to tackle those challenges is Serious Games. Not only this method, but also GIS techniques are commonly tasked with solving and tracking spatial problems because of their great capabilities to meet the Spatial-based requirements of serious games. This paper presents a new integrative framework using GIS-based serious game to address the challenging issue of railways resilience. The serious game concept presented in this paper is being developed as part of the H2020 funded PRECINCT project (www.precinct.info).
MS Gr. class. c. 5 1010
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 336/1150 col. 30. Polystratus, De contemptu
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
Quantum Langevin approach for non-Markovian quantum dynamics of the spin-boson model
Creators: name: Zhou, Zheng-Yang
name: Chen, Mi
name: Yu, Ting
name: You, J. Q.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: One long-standing difficult problem in quantum dissipative dynamics is to solve the spin-boson model in a non-Markovian regime where a tractable systematic master equation does not exist. The spin-boson model is particularly important due to its crucial applications in quantum noise control and manipulation as well as its central role in developing quantum theories of open systems. Here we solve this important model by developing a non-Markovian quantum Langevin approach. By projecting the quantum Langevin equation onto the coherent states of the bath, we can derivie a set of non-Markovian quantum Bloch equations containing no explicit noise variables. This special feature offers a tremendous advantage over the existing stochastic Schrödinger equations in numerical simulations. The physical significance and generality of our approach are briefly discussed.
description: 8 pages, 1 figure
title: Evaluating extant family paradigms: Pacific perspectives - a critical interpretative synthesis
Creators: name: Forrest, Lee-Ann N
Publisher: name: University of Southern Queensland
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: 170113 Social and Community Psychology

description: Models that conceptualise family are widely used today in areas such as psychology, as well as by governments, legislators, and policy-makers to inform professional practice and to formulate public policy. However, these models are notably Western-centric, having been designed in, and for, a Western cultural context. Given the cultural diversity of today’s globalised world, it is timely to question whether such models can represent populations within their ambit. No known literature to date has attempted to evaluate whether the models can represent non-Western family perspectives. Hence, a critical interpretative synthesis was implemented to address this gap. The scope was confined to the Pacific region, with particular consideration given to the perspectives of the iTaukei (i.e., indigenous Fijians), Tongan, and Māori peoples. The research objectives aimed to identify extant models that elucidate family structure and family processes, and to investigate how well models perform from the perspective of these Pacific peoples. It was concluded that extant models are inadequate for representing Pacific family arrangements. This finding has important implications as it questions the reliability of previous data and may precipitate a reassessment of the value of such research. Moreover, it mandates the development of a culturally sensitive model. To this end, key family-related metaphors common among Pacific peoples have been incorporated to conceptualise one potential alternative. This is briefly presented. Several critical-issue implications of the current research are also offered. It is hoped that this study accomplished significant groundwork for future research. In that sense, this was groundbreaking work, with the potential to stimulate research in the quest for a model that is able to represent cultural diversity.
MS Gr. class. c. 5 1011
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 336/1150 col. 31. Polystratus, De contemptu
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
Data, Knowledge, and Theory: A Biostatistician’s Perspective
Creators: name: Baker, Stuart Glenn
Publisher: name: Organisms
Year: 2022

description: This commentary, inspired by a recent opinion piece of noted biologist Paul Nurse, overviews the interplay between data and various types of scientific knowledge within the realms of prediction, data patterns, causal inference, and scientific theory.
description: Organisms, Vol 5, No 2 (2022): Special Issue: Where is Science Going? Scenarios and Perspectives of Contemporary Technoscience
title: Congenital infiltrating lipomatosis of the face
Creators: name: Yadav, Amit Kumar
Publisher: name: EURORAD
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Head & neck imaging
subject: Head and neck
subject: CT
subject: MR
subject: Ultrasound
subject: Ultrasound-Colour Doppler
subject: Hyperplasia / Hypertrophy
subject: Clinical Cases

description: Clinical History: A 20-year-old female with swelling and redness on the left side face since birth. She presented with similar findings 3 years back and underwent surgical excision of a part of the lower lip on the left side with limited documentation. The swelling has now recurred (Figures 1a, 1b, 1c).

description: 20 years, female
Rarita-Schwinger-Weyl semimetal in Jeff=3/2 electron systems
Creators: name: Liang, Long
name: Yu, Yue
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a relativistic Jeff=3/2 semimetal with 4d1 or 5d1 electrons on a cubic lattice when the strong spin-orbital coupling takes over the Hunds' coupling. A relativistic spinor with spin 3/2 is historically called Rarita-Schwinger spinor. In the massless case, the right- and left-handed chiral degrees of freedom of the Rarita-Schwinger spinors are independent. In the lattice model that we propose, the right- and left- handed gapless points in Brillouin zone are separated. We call this linearly dispersed semimetal Rarita-Schwinger-Weyl semimetal, similar to Weyl semimetal for spin 1/2 systems. There is a network of gapless Fermi arcs in the surface Brillouin zone if n1+n2+n3 is even for the normal vector (n1,n2,n3) of the surface while the surface is insulator if n1+n2+n3 is odd.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Archival Considerations: A Practical Approach from a Small Business Perspective
Creators: name: Kirkley, Ronald J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006
Subjects: Electronic archive
Digital preservation
Digital archive
Tape drive
Data recovery

description: Procedures were developed to create a digital archive for a moderate sized engineering firm. The two part process involved data recovery from past backup tapes and from various magnetic and optical media from earlier attempts of archiving digital information. It also involved creating procedures for preserving and archiving present and future information. The archival procedures were developed utilizing the major recommendations found in the literature that generally focused on libraries, corporations and governmental organizations.
Molecular theory of solvation: Methodology summary and illustrations
Creators: name: Kovalenko, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Integral equation theory of molecular liquids based on statistical mechanics is quite promising as an essential part of multiscale methodology for chemical and biomolecular nanosystems in solution. Beginning with a molecular interaction potential force field, it uses diagrammatic analysis of the solvation free energy to derive integral equations for correlation functions between molecules in solution in the statistical-mechanical ensemble. The infinite chain of coupled integral equations for many-body correlation functions is reduced to a tractable form for 2- or 3-body correlations by applying the so-called closure relations. Solving these equations produces the solvation structure with accuracy comparable to molecular simulations that have converged but has a critical advantage of readily treating the effects and processes spanning over a large space and slow time scales, by far not feasible for explicit solvent molecular simulations. One of the versions of this formalism, the three-dimensional reference interaction site model (3D-RISM) integral equation complemented with the Kovalenko-Hirata (KH) closure approximation, yields the solvation structure in terms of 3D maps of correlation functions, including density distributions, of solvent interaction sites around a solute (supra)molecule with full consistent account for the effects of chemical functionalities of all species in the solution. The solvation free energy and the subsequent thermodynamics are then obtained at once as a simple integral of the 3D correlation functions by performing thermodynamic integration analytically.
description: 24 pages, 10 figures, Review
Einstein Classical Program Revived
Creators: name: Carati, Andrea
name: Galgani, Luigi
Publisher: name: Organisms
Year: 2022

description: The Einstein Classical Program is well known: to prove that, at least in the domain of atomic physics, quantum mechanics can be recovered from a theory presenting some “realistic character’’. Here we address an extreme form of the program in which the realistic theory is just classical electrodynamics of point charges, and give concrete examples in which typical “quantum phenomena’’ are explained. Namely, spectral lines (in the case of ionic crystals) and chemical bond (in the case of the H2+ ion of the Hydrogen molecule). Additionally, an explanation is given of a phenomenon (existence of polaritons in ionic crystals), for which a quantum explanation is still lacking. Concerning the general objection that a classical theory would be impossible because of radiative collapse (radiation emission by accelerated charges), we illustrate how it is removed for charges in a medium, in virtue of the Wheeler-Feynman cancellation. The impact of such results for the general reductionistic program is also commented.
description: Organisms, Vol 5, No 2 (2022): Special Issue: Where is Science Going? Scenarios and Perspectives of Contemporary Technoscience