cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Bounds on corner entanglement in quantum critical states
Creators: name: Bueno, Pablo
name: Witczak-Krempa, William
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The entanglement entropy in many gapless quantum systems receives a contribution from corners in the entangling surface in 2+1d. It is characterized by a universal function $a(θ)$ depending on the opening angle $θ$, and contains pertinent low energy information. For conformal field theories (CFTs), the leading expansion coefficient in the smooth limit $θ\to π$ yields the stress tensor 2-point function coefficient $C_T$ . Little is known about $a(θ)$ beyond that limit. Here, we show that the next term in the smooth limit expansion contains information beyond the 2- and 3-point correlators of the stress tensor. We conjecture that it encodes 4-point data, making it much richer. Further, we establish strong constraints on this and higher order smooth-limit coefficients. We also show that $a(θ)$ is lower-bounded by a non-trivial function multiplied by the central charge $C_T$ , e.g. $a(π/2) \geq (π^2 \ln 2)C_T /6$. This bound for 90-degree corners is nearly saturated by all known results, including recent numerics for the interacting Wilson-Fisher quantum critical points (QCPs). A bound is also given for the Rényi entropies. We illustrate our findings using O(N) QCPs, free boson and Dirac fermion CFTs, strongly coupled holographic ones, and other models. Exact results are also given for Lifshitz quantum critical points, and for conical singularities in 3+1d.
description: 10 + 8 pages, 6 figures, 1 + 2 tables. v2: refs added, minor changes
Additional file 1 of Sticking together: independent evolution of biofilm formation in different species of staphylococci has occurred multiple times via different pathways
Creators: name: Crossman, Lisa
name: Sims, Leanne
name: Dean, Rachael
name: Felgate, Heather
name: Calvo, Teresa Diaz
name: Hill, Claire
name: McNamara, Iain
name: Webber, Mark A.
name: Wain, John
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Astronomical and Space Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Supplementary Material 1.
Conflicting attachment and the growth of bipartite networks
Creators: name: Leung, Chung Yin
name: Weitz, Joshua S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Simple growth mechanisms have been proposed to explain the emergence of seemingly universal network structures. The widely-studied model of preferential attachment assumes that new nodes are more likely to connect to highly connected nodes. Preferential attachment explains the emergence of scale-free degree distributions within complex networks. Yet, it is incompatible with many network systems, particularly bipartite systems in which two distinct types of agents interact. For example, the addition of new links in a host-parasite system corresponds to the infection of hosts by parasites. Increasing connectivity is beneficial to a parasite and detrimental to a host. Therefore, the overall network connectivity is subject to conflicting pressures. Here, we propose a stochastic network growth model of conflicting attachment, inspired by a particular kind of parasite-host interactions: that of viruses interacting with microbial hosts. The mechanism of network growth includes conflicting preferences to network density as well as costs involved in modifying the network connectivity according to these preferences. We find that the resulting networks exhibit realistic patterns commonly observed in empirical data, including the emergence of nestedness, modularity, and nested-modular structures that exhibit both properties. We study the role of conflicting interests in shaping network structure and assess opportunities to incorporate greater realism in linking growth process to pattern in systems governed by antagonistic and mutualistic interactions.
description: 24 pages, 7 figures
Fashion and the Fleshy Body (In a White Jumpsuit): David Cassidy as Unsung Nonbinary Style Icon
Creators: name: Dracker, Pune
Publisher: name: ZoneModa Journal
Year: 2023

description: In March 1972, the pop idol David Cassidy played a sold-out show at Madison Square Garden dressed in a white lace-up jumpsuit. Although this outfit has been widely documented by fans, photographers and journalists, it has not been as widely discussed as signature costumes worn by his equally famous contemporaries — David Bowie and his man’s dress, for example, which helped make the musician the androgynous style icon he is known as today, or Elvis Presley in his iconic white jumpsuit, which redefined ideas of masculinity in American culture. Yet when discussed through Joanne Entwistle’s framework of dress as an embodied practice — David Cassidy wearing this particular jumpsuit, at this particular event — the individual garment regains a deeper meaning. Through an analysis of the jumpsuit and dress as an embodied practice, the stage is set to show Cassidy as a powerful conduit of social change who subverted gender norms in mainstream American culture in the late 1960s and early 70s — an unlikely but worthy nonbinary fashion icon.
description: ZoneModa Journal, Vol. 13 No. 1 (2023): Fashion and Gender
How do individuals learn and apply brief mindfulness-based instructions for anxiety related to the COVID-19 pandemic? A qualitative study.
Creators: name: Tatar, Betül
name: Papies, Esther
name: Pazmanyova, Rebeka
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: To our knowledge, experiences of decentering have not been studied qualitatively in the domain of anxiety, and in the context of the current COVID-19 pandemic. The present study will examine first year undergraduate students’ experiences of learning and applying brief decentering instructions for anxiety related to the COVID-19 pandemic.
title: Sex determination based on measurements of the subpubic and greater sciatic notch angles using three-dimensional computed tomography images.
Creators: name: Abiko, Kenta
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Forensic / Necropsy studies
subject: Pelvis
subject: Anatomy
subject: CT
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Forensics

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Pelvic dimensions are important for sex assignment of skeletal remains (sometimes fragments) in forensic medicine. Subpubic angle (SA) and greater sciatic notch (GSN) are the major characteristics to be inspected to distinguish between males and...
Year 15 exits of low income housing tax credit properties: homeownership conversion potential of small-scale units in North Carolina
Creators: name: Turner, Laura
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: The Low Income Housing Tax Credit (LIHTC) program is a federal subsidy program designed to increase private development of rental housing that is affordable to the low-income population. Since low-income housing produces small cash flows, the government supplies additional benefit in the form of tax credits, a dollar-for-dollar reduction in the amount of taxes owed. Tax credits are also a commodity, since they can be sold or traded, making them a fairly secure source of revenue. As such, the LIHTC program has grown in both popularity and complexity. Currently, developers of a LIHTC project must enter into a legal agreement attached to the property, requiring affordable rents for a duration of 30 years. The development entity must also remain the owner for a minimum of 15 years, else the IRS could revoke some portion of the tax credits awarded to them. Difficulties can arise after 15 years if the development entity wishes to sell the property, since the property remains subject to affordability restrictions regardless of a transfer of ownership. Several options for "exiting" the property exist, but the conditions which influence the exit approach and the preservation of both affordability and structural maintenance of the property remain unclear. This paper looks at all single-family LIHTC properties within the State of North Carolina in an attempt to evaluate the potential of a particular exit strategy: selling the property to the low-income tenant. Owners and tenants of these properties were contacted via a mail survey to solicit their interest in selling or buying, respectively, and to ask for their general feedback and their future plans in relation to their unit. Income qualifications of the tenants were also evaluated to determine their ability to afford a mortgage payment based on their current rents using a mortgage structure based on several products and services offered to first-time homebuyers through the North Carolina Housing Finance Agency (HFA). The results were mixed. A significant number of property owners responded that they were interested in exiting their property, and would consider selling it to their existing tenant or a future tenant. Several questions were raised by owners who were ready to begin that process. Unfortunately, response rates from tenants were extremely low and an overall analysis of tenants' finances indicates that many may be unlikely to obtain a mortgage for an amount as high as their property's tax value.
Additional file 1 of Time for health change: promoting community-based diabetes screening and prevention with video vignettes and social marketing
Creators: name: Jirjees, Feras
name: Hasan, Sanah
name: Krass, Ines
name: Saidawi, Ward
name: Al-Juboori, Mohammed Khalid
name: Othman, Amna M.
name: Alzoubi, Karem H.
name: Alzubaidi, Hamzah
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy
subject: Mental Health

description: Supplementary Material 1
Dark Sectors with Mass Thresholds Face Cosmological Datasets
Creators: name: Allali, Itamar J.
name: Rompineve, Fabrizio
name: Hertzberg, Mark P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Interacting dark sectors may undergo changes in the number of their relativistic species during the early universe, due to a mass threshold $m$ (similar to changes in the Standard Model bath), and in doing so affect the cosmic history. When such changes occur close to recombination, i.e., for $m\sim (0.1-10)~\text{eV}$, the stringent bound on the effective number of neutrino species, $N_{\text{eff}}$, can be relaxed and the value of the Hubble expansion rate $H_0$ inferred from Cosmic Microwave Background (CMB) observations raised. We search for such sectors (with and without mass thresholds) in the latest cosmological datasets, including the full-shape (FS) of BOSS DR12 galaxy power spectrum. We perform a detailed analysis, accounting for the choice of prior boundaries and additionally exploring the possible effects of dark sector interactions with (a fraction of) the dark matter. We find $ΔN_{\text{eff}}\leq 0.55\, (0.46)$ at 95% C.L. with (without) a mass threshold. While a significantly larger Hubble rate is achieved in this scenario, $H_0=69.01^{+0.66}_{-1.1}$, the overall fit to CMB+FS data does not provide a compelling advantage over the $Λ$CDM model. Furthermore, we find that dark matter interactions with the dark sector do not significantly improve the (matter fluctuations) $S_8$ tension with respect to the $Λ$CDM model. Our work provides model-independent constraints on (decoupled) dark sectors with mass thresholds around the eV scale.
description: 18 + 18 pages, 38 figures and tables
title: Tomographic findings in wound infections after cardiac surgery: a predictive score
Creators: name: Díaz Angulo, Carolina
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: Thorax
subject: CT
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Surgery
subject: Infection

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Mediastinal infection associated with cardiac surgery is an uncommon complication (0.5%-5%), associated with high mortality and morbidity rates (20-40%). The pathophysiology of mediastinitis following heart operation has been associated with sternal...
Immediately Observable Effects (or not) of the Bostock US Supreme Court Decision on Personally Expressed LGBTQ Identity
Creators: name: Jones, Jason
name: Cisternino, Irissa
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: being out
subject: big data
subject: coming out
subject: computational social science
subject: identity
subject: LGBT
subject: LGBTQ
subject: longitudinal
subject: pre-registered
subject: time series
subject: Twitter

description: The decision in Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia protects employees from dismissal due to their sexual orientation or gender identity. In doing so, it removes a significant obstacle to publicly revealing one's LGBTQ identity in the United States and especially in those states that did not already extend workplace protections for sexual orientation or gender identity minorities. Using LOPS - Longitudinal Online Profile Sampling - and other analyses, we test for observable changes in the rate at which internet users self-identify using LGBTQ keywords.
Promoting Energy Efficiency in Affordable Housing: A Critical Review of the SystemVision Program
Creators: name: Levine, Aubra
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: The goal of the SystemVision program is to "build homes for low-income families that are not only affordable to buy, but also affordable to live in" (26). In that respect, the program, which operates in 41 counties statewide and in January 2007, announced completion of their 1,000 home, is a bona fide success (26; 27). In order to conduct the most comprehensive assessment given time and resource constraints, a survey was deemed the most appropriate instrument by which to sample such a geographically widespread population. Improving energy efficiency is the most cost-effective way to meet rising housing costs while reducing the negative environment, health, economic and security impacts of growing energy demands. While there is a pressing need for such programs, particularly among low income residents, their growth has been met by many obstacles, both real and perceived. To a large extent, the rise of energy efficiency programs has been stymied by a lack of information about programs and their benefits. However in concert with this obstacle are a host of others that include an insufficient network of subcontractors, inspectors, and builders; misperceptions about construction related costs and program expenses; and an unstable funding source. Moreover, the lending and home appraisal industries have only recently begun to provide products and underwriting standards that take into account the life-cycle savings that energy efficiency programs generate. Therefore, even as government officials and planners work to encourage the growth of energy efficiency programs and policy, they must also address the structural barriers and perceived obstacles that will otherwise impede its expansion. While there is undoubtedly more work to be done, the overwhelming belief among survey respondents that energy efficiency programs are important, coupled with the increasing visibility of such programs nationwide are signs that this work will not be done in vain.
title: Extracardiac findings in routine clinical cardiac magnetic resonance.
Creators: name: Astengo, Davide
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: MR
subject: Thorax
subject: Abdomen
subject: Cardiac
subject: Epidemiology
subject: Image verification

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: To assess the prevalence and importance of extracardiac findings (ECFs) reported in the original clinical cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) reading aimed to assess also extracardiac...
Isolated elliptical galaxies in the local Universe
Creators: name: Lacerna, I.
name: Hernandez-Toledo, H. M.
name: Avila-Reese, V.
name: Abonza-Sane, J.
name: del Olmo, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied a sample of 89 very isolated, elliptical galaxies at z < 0.08 and compared their properties with elliptical galaxies located in a high-density environment such as the Coma supercluster. Our aim is to probe the role of environment on the morphological transformation and quenching of elliptical galaxies as a function of mass. In addition, we elucidate the nature of a particular set of blue and star-forming isolated ellipticals identified here. We study physical properties of ellipticals such as color, specific star formation rate, galaxy size, and stellar age, as a function of stellar mass and environment based on SDSS data. We analyze the blue star-forming isolated ellipticals in more detail, through photometric characterization using GALFIT, and infer their star formation history using STARLIGHT. Among the isolated ellipticals ~ 20% are blue, 8% are star forming, and ~ 10% are recently quenched, while among the Coma ellipticals ~ 8% are blue and just <= 1% are star forming or recently quenched. There are four isolated galaxies (~ 4.5%) that are blue and star forming at the same time. These galaxies, with masses between 7 x 10^9 and 2 x 10^10 h-2 M_sun, are also the youngest galaxies with light-weighted stellar ages <= 1 Gyr and exhibit bluer colors toward the galaxy center. Around 30-60% of their present-day luminosity, but only < 5% of their present-day mass, is due to star formation in the last 1 Gyr. The processes of morphological transformation and quenching seem to be in general independent of environment since most of elliptical galaxies are 'red and dead', although the transition to the red sequence should be faster for isolated ellipticals. In some cases, the isolated environment seems to propitiate the rejuvenation of ellipticals by recent (< 1 Gyr) cold gas accretion.
description: 23 pages, 15 figures (16 pages and 9 figures without appendices). A&A, in press
Threads of Life, Love, & Loss: An HIV/AIDS Story. Exhibition by Denise N. Green, Michael Mamp and Brenda Marston. Cornell University, Human Ecology Building, August 15–December 2, 2022
Creators: name: Segre Reinach, Simona
Publisher: name: ZoneModa Journal
Year: 2023

description: ZoneModa Journal, Vol. 13 No. 1 (2023): Fashion and Gender
Tree species diversity can amplify forest microclimate offset
Creators: name: Zhang, Shengmin
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: 1) Record of microclimate data (air temperature[air.csv], soil temperature[soilset.csv], VPD[VPD.csv], dataset of the name in '[]', same as follows) from March 2019 to March 2020 with a temporal resolution in FORBIO sites.2) Observational data of forest structure across our sites (basal area [basal.csv] and canopy cover [canopy.csv]).3) Code for whole analysis are shown in [figshare.R] and [SEM.Rmd].
ICDAR 2023 Competition on Robust Layout Segmentation in Corporate Documents
Creators: name: Auer, Christoph
name: Nassar, Ahmed
name: Lysak, Maksym
name: Dolfi, Michele
name: Livathinos, Nikolaos
name: Staar, Peter
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Transforming documents into machine-processable representations is a challenging task due to their complex structures and variability in formats. Recovering the layout structure and content from PDF files or scanned material has remained a key problem for decades. ICDAR has a long tradition in hosting competitions to benchmark the state-of-the-art and encourage the development of novel solutions to document layout understanding. In this report, we present the results of our \textit{ICDAR 2023 Competition on Robust Layout Segmentation in Corporate Documents}, which posed the challenge to accurately segment the page layout in a broad range of document styles and domains, including corporate reports, technical literature and patents. To raise the bar over previous competitions, we engineered a hard competition dataset and proposed the recent DocLayNet dataset for training. We recorded 45 team registrations and received official submissions from 21 teams. In the presented solutions, we recognize interesting combinations of recent computer vision models, data augmentation strategies and ensemble methods to achieve remarkable accuracy in the task we posed. A clear trend towards adoption of vision-transformer based methods is evident. The results demonstrate substantial progress towards achieving robust and highly generalizing methods for document layout understanding.
description: ICDAR 2023, 10 pages, 4 figures
A spine-sheath model for strong-line blazars
Creators: name: Sikora, Marek
name: Rutkowski, Mieszko
name: Begelman, Mitchell C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have developed a quasi-analytical model for the production of radiation in strong-line blazars, assuming a spine-sheath jet structure. The model allows us to study how the spine and sheath spectral components depend on parameters describing the geometrical and physical structure of "the blazar zone". We show that typical broad-band spectra of strong-line blazars can be reproduced by assuming the magnetization parameter to be of order unity and reconnection to be the dominant dissipation mechanism. Furthermore, we demonstrate that the spine-sheath model can explain why gamma-ray variations are often observed to have much larger amplitudes than the corresponding optical variations. The model is also less demanding of jet power than one-zone models, and can reproduce the basic features of extreme gamma-ray events.
description: 7 pages, 9 figures. Minor changes are made to match the version accepted for publication in MNRAS
title: Bolus Injection of Landiolol for Cardiac Computed Tomography
Creators: name: Nakamura, Yoshitaka
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Efficacy studies
subject: CT-Angiography
subject: Cardiac
subject: Arteriosclerosis

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: With the recent development of multidetector computed tomography (MDCT), cardiac computed tomography (CCT) has become a reliable noninvasive diagnostic tool for coronary artery disease.(1-4)However, heart rate (HR) reduction is essential to achieve...
MODULATION OF NOCICEPTION BY VOLTAGE GATED SODIUM ION CHANNELS IN THE TORTOISE (Kinixys spekii)
Creators: name: Makau, Christopher
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Life Sciences

description: The project is about investigating the involvement of several voltage gated sodium ion channels (Nav1.3, Nav1.7 and Nav1.8) on nociception in the speke hinged tortoise. In addition, effectiveness of anti-depressants on pain management in these animals shall be investigated.
Additional file 1 of Parental and healthcare provider attitudes towards the Healthy Child Programme in England: a qualitative analysis
Creators: name: Rahman, Tahmid
name: Freer, Joseph
name: Cordani, Isabella
name: Papasavva, Michael
name: Dunkel, Leo
name: Walton, Robert
name: Storr, Helen L.
name: Prendergast, Andrew J.
name: Orr, Joanna
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 1: Health Visitor focus group interview guide
Psychological barriers and facilitators associated with vaccine uptake in low- and middle- income countries: A scoping review
Creators: name: Shukla, Shruti
name: Roberts, Edward
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Diseases
subject: Public Health
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This scoping review aims to collate current knowledge on how psychological factors affect vaccine uptake in LMICs. The review aims to investigate questions around which factors are most important, what are the drivers for these factors, and how they differ between countries.
AdS/CFT and local renormalization group with gauge fields
Creators: name: Kikuchi, Ken
name: Sakai, Tadakatsu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We revisit a study of local renormalization group (RG) with background gauge fields incorporated using the AdS/CFT correspondence. Starting with a $(d+1)$-dimensional bulk gravity coupled to scalars and gauge fields, we derive a local RG equation from a flow equation by working in the Hamilton-Jacobi formulation of the bulk theory. The Gauss's law constraint associated with gauge symmetry plays an important role. RG flows of the background gauge fields are governed by vector $β$-functions, and some interesting properties of them are known to follow. We give a systematic rederivation of them on the basis of the flow equation. Fixing an ambiguity of local counterterms in such a manner that is natural from the viewpoint of the flow equation, we determine all the coefficients uniquely appearing in the trace of the stress tensor for $d=4$. A relation between a choice of schemes and a Virial current is discussed. As a consistency check, these are found to satisfy the integrability conditions of local RG transformations. From these results, we are led to a proof of a holographic $c$-theorem by finding out a full family of schemes where a trace anomaly coefficient is related with a holographic $c$-function.
description: 1+21 pages, v2: some comments and references added, v3: typos corrected
title: Work-up of Liver radioembolization with Yttrium-90 microspheres : practical approach and litterature review
Creators: name: Vesselle, Guillaume
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Radioembolisation
subject: Embolisation
subject: Brachytherapy
subject: CT
subject: Catheter arteriography
subject: Liver
subject: Interventional vascular
subject: Anatomy

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: This poster provide a practical approach of the radioembolization (RE) work-up with detailed : - Liver arterial vasculature and main variations; - How to identify those arteries on preprocedure CT-scan and during arteriography - Main issues related...
Recreation, tourism development, and watershed protection in the Dan River Basin
Creators: name: Culler, Megan Elaine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Environmental regulations can be seen as burdens or impediments to economic development. My research aims to determine whether cities might be more willing to implement environmental protections and remediation when these activities are seen as contributing to economic development, improvements to the city's image, or higher standards of living for residents. Specifically, this project examines whether recreation and tourism development motivate cities to protect water quality. I attempted to answer this question through interviews with city government officials in Danville, VA, Martinsville, VA, Eden, NC, and Reidsville, NC, the four largest cities in the Dan River Basin. This research attempts to address the broader question, what motivates cities and towns to make the water quality of rivers and streams a priority? If cities view rivers as amenities, are they more motivated to protect them? Conversely, if they view watershed protection as a burden, are they likely to only do the minimum that is required by state or federal regulations? The following case studies look at factors that have hindered or encouraged creating and implementing policies for protecting water in these four cities, and more specifically how recreation and tourism have influenced such policies. Exploring what motivates cities to protect water quality could provide insight into potential ways to balance economic development with environmental protections, and ways to motivate cities to go above and beyond the minimum required of them by the EPA and state agencies such as the North Carolina Division of Water Quality and the Virginia Division of Environmental Quality. Identifying the factors that motivate cities to improve water quality in nearby rivers and streams could be useful in making the case for implementing BMPs, building greenbelts along rivers, encouraging the development of non-polluting industries, or carrying out other activities to prevent water pollution. Even when the cost of water quality protections seems prohibitive, cities might be more willing to accept the costs if they believe they might experience economic gains as a result of improved amenity or recreational values. The development of various types of recreation and tourism in this area provided an opportunity to test whether outdoor recreation stimulates environmental protection. Because these four cities have focused to greater or lesser extents on the Dan River and other rivers and lakes as a source of recreation, it was possible to compare and contrast them to observe whether their environmental policies and programs differ based on their tourism and recreation goals.
Acoustic-to-Articulatory Speech Inversion Features for Mispronunciation Detection of /r/ in Child Speech Sound Disorders
Creators: name: Benway, Nina R
name: Siriwardena, Yashish M
name: Preston, Jonathan L
name: Hitchcock, Elaine
name: McAllister, Tara
name: Espy-Wilson, Carol
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Acoustic-to-articulatory speech inversion could enhance automated clinical mispronunciation detection to provide detailed articulatory feedback unattainable by formant-based mispronunciation detection algorithms; however, it is unclear the extent to which a speech inversion system trained on adult speech performs in the context of (1) child and (2) clinical speech. In the absence of an articulatory dataset in children with rhotic speech sound disorders, we show that classifiers trained on tract variables from acoustic-to-articulatory speech inversion meet or exceed the performance of state-of-the-art features when predicting clinician judgment of rhoticity. Index Terms: rhotic, speech sound disorder, mispronunciation detection
description: *denotes equal contribution. To appear in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2023
Diagnostic Reasoning in Nurse Practitioner Education: An Integrative Review Review Question
Creators: name: Smith, Sheila
name: Benbenek, Mary
name: Bockwoldt, Denise
name: Bakker, Caitlin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Medical Education
subject: Nursing
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: The purpose of this review is to systematically identify, classify, critically appraise, and synthesize the scientific literature from the past 15 years, regarding the evolution, current state, and impact of diagnostic reasoning science and theory, on Nurse Practitioner education. The attached file contains the full protocol as of 9/15/2020.
The Community Home Trust and the Town of Chapel Hill: An Analysis of the Town’s Responsibility to Ensure the Sustainability of its Inclusionary Zoning Program
Creators: name: Dowling, Roderick Anthony
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: As more and more Americans struggle to pay for adequate housing each year, the need for housing policy that creates more affordable options increases. This report begins by explaining the growing need for affordable housing options throughout the United States with an in-depth focus on the Town of Chapel Hill. It then describes how Inclusionary Zoning (IZ) programs have been adopted and implemented in certain communities to increase the availability of affordable homeownership. Specifically, it examines the IZ ordinance passed by the Town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina and its implementation by the Community Home Trust, the community land trust responsible for administering the IZ ordinance in Chapel Hill. This analysis reveals the current issues faced by the Town and the Community Home Trust in its efforts to implement the IZ policy and ensure the future supply of affordable homeownership options. In addition, this report stresses the importance of increased municipal support in continuing the organizations work, outlining “best practice” research that should be adopted by the Town of Chapel Hill. Finally, this report proposes policy recommendations to the Town’s IZ program and argues for increasing the municipality’s role in ensuring the sustainability of the Community Home Trust.
title: A geometric index to differentiate abnormal from normal septal wall motion on cardiac MR imaging
Creators: name: Resta, Elda Chiara
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: MR
subject: Technical aspects
subject: Diagnostic procedure

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Septal wall motion (SWM) is considered abnormal when it moves anteriorly during systole [1]. In systole, while in normal subjects the septal wall moves towards the left ventricle (LV), in subjects with abnormal SWM the septum shows normal thickening...
Classifying Rhoticity of /r/ in Speech Sound Disorder using Age-and-Sex Normalized Formants
Creators: name: Benway, Nina R
name: Preston, Jonathan L
name: Salekin, Asif
name: Xiao, Yi
name: Sharma, Harshit
name: McAllister, Tara
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Audio and Speech Processing (eess.AS)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: Mispronunciation detection tools could increase treatment access for speech sound disorders impacting, e.g., /r/. We show age-and-sex normalized formant estimation outperforms cepstral representation for detection of fully rhotic vs. derhotic /r/ in the PERCEPT-R Corpus. Gated recurrent neural networks trained on this feature set achieve a mean test participant-specific F1-score =.81 (σx=.10, med = .83, n = 48), with post hoc modeling showing no significant effect of child age or sex.
description: To appear in Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the International Speech Communication Association, INTERSPEECH 2023
HbA1c and glucose in vivo Raman spectra
Creators: name: González Viveros, Naara
name: Castro-Ramos, Jorge
name: Gómez-Gil, Pilar
name: Cerecedo-Núñez, H.H.
name: Gutierrez-Delgado, F.
name: Flores-Guerrero, Jose
name: Pérez-Fuentes, Ricardo
name: Torres-Rasgado, Enrique
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Physical Sciences and Mathematics
subject: Optics
subject: Physics

description: The Raman spectra of three different body parts (forearm, index finger, wrist) in addition to serum from 46 volunteers were acquired using Raman spectroscopy, in addition to the values of glucose and HbA1c by means of laboratory tests per each volunteer.
FARA: Future-aware Ranking Algorithm for Fairness Optimization
Creators: name: Yang, Tao
name: Xu, Zhichao
name: Wang, Zhenduo
name: Ai, Qingyao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Information Retrieval (cs.IR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Ranking systems are the key components of modern Information Retrieval (IR) applications, such as search engines and recommender systems. Besides the ranking relevance to users, the exposure fairness to item providers has also been considered an important factor in ranking optimization. Many fair ranking algorithms have been proposed to jointly optimize both ranking relevance and fairness. However, we find that most existing fair ranking methods adopt greedy algorithms that only optimize rankings for the next immediate session or request. As shown in this paper, such a myopic paradigm could limit the upper bound of ranking optimization and lead to suboptimal performance in the long term. To this end, we propose \textbf{FARA}, a novel \textbf{F}uture-\textbf{A}ware \textbf{R}anking \textbf{A}lgorithm for ranking relevance and fairness optimization. Instead of greedily optimizing rankings for the next immediate session, FARA plans ahead by jointly optimizing multiple ranklists together and saving them for future sessions. Specifically, FARA first uses the Taylor expansion to investigate how future ranklists will influence the overall fairness of the system. Then, based on the analysis of the Taylor expansion, FARA adopts a two-phase optimization algorithm where we first solve an optimal future exposure planning problem and then construct the optimal ranklists according to the optimal future exposure planning. Theoretically, we show that FARA is optimal for ranking relevance and fairness joint optimization. Empirically, our extensive experiments on three semi-synthesized datasets show that FARA is efficient, effective, and can deliver significantly better ranking performance compared to state-of-the-art fair ranking methods. We make our implementation public at \href{https://github.com/Taosheng-ty/QP_fairness/}{https://github.com/Taosheng-ty/QP\_fairness/}.
description: 11 pages, four figures, four tables. CIKM2023
title: Advanced 3D CT image analysis of chronic liver disease: splenic and segmental liver ratios correlate with the stage of hepatic fibrosis in hepatitis C patients
Creators: name: Lotan, Eyal
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Liver
subject: Anatomy
subject: CT
subject: CT-Quantitative
subject: Computer Applications-3D
subject: Staging
subject: Cirrhosis

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: Early detection of liver fibrosis and cirrhosis has important implications for the prognosis of patient with hepatitis C virus (HCV). There are different options to diagnose liver fibrosis including: biopsy, elastography and FibroTest. Biopsy is...
Spin wave mediated unidirectional Vortex Core Reversal by Two Orthogonal Monopolar Field Pulses: The Essential Role of Three-dimensional Magnetization Dynamics
Creators: name: Noske, Matthias
name: Stoll, Hermann
name: Fähnle, Manfred
name: Gangwar, Ajay
name: Woltersdorf, Georg
name: Slavin, Andrei
name: Weigand, Markus
name: Dieterle, Georg
name: Förster, Johannes
name: Back, Christian H.
name: Schütz, Gisela
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scanning transmission x-ray microscopy is employed to investigate experimentally the reversal of the magnetic vortex core polarity in cylindrical Ni81Fe19 nanodisks triggered by two orthogonal monopolar magnetic field pulses with peak amplitude $B_0$, pulse length $τ$=60 ps and delay time $Δ$t in the range from -400 ps to +400 ps between the two pulses. The two pulses are oriented in-plane in the x- and y-direction. We have experimentally studied vortex core reversal as function of $B_0$ and $Δ$t. The resulting phase diagram shows large regions of unidirectional vortex core switching where the switching threshold is modulated due to resonant amplification of azimuthal spin waves. The switching behavior changes dramatically depending on whether the first pulse is applied in the x- or the y-direction. This asymmetry can be reproduced by three-dimensional micromagnetic simulations but not by two-dimensional simulations. This behavior demonstrates that in contrast to previous experiments on vortex core reversal the three-dimensionality in the dynamics is essential here.
Beyond LEED for neighborhood development: a contextual analysis of urban design and sustainability
Creators: name: Schwartz, Ester Ehrlich
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Worldwide, during the past decades many industrial sectors have begun to recognize the impacts of their activities on the environment and to make significant changes to mitigate their environmental impact. While typically buildings are designed according to local building codes, green building design challenges designers to go beyond the codes to improve the overall building performance and minimize environmental impacts. A few mechanisms now exist to transform this design goal into specific performance objectives and provide a framework to assess the overall design. These tools are called green building rating systems. In the spring of 2007, three of the nation's leading organizations in environmentally-friendly design - the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), the Congress of New Urbanism (CNU) and the Natural Resource Defense Council (NRDC) - published a pilot version of the newest category of the LEED rating system. The great innovation of Leed-ND is that it does not focus only on energy efficiency as a component of designing a green building, but incorporates several other sustainability aspects in the rating system. Despite the evidence provided by the literature about the importance of the different dimensions and contexts in the urban design process, Leed-ND seems not to follow those concepts. Thus far, no mention of context-sensitivity appears in the pilot version. Two main questions arise from such observation: Have Leed-ND simply overlooked at the importance of context? or Have they found out that after all, context-sensitivity is not essential, and urban design can indeed be reduced to a universal formula and still be sustainable? To find the answers to these questions this study begins by exploring the themes of urban design and sustainable urban design. To answer the research questions I propose the identification and evaluation of urban design elements and qualities in different contexts. To avoid the limitations of previous studies, a resident's survey is used for the analysis of how different elements and qualities of urban design behave in the different settings. Factor analysis is then used to measure and rate elements and qualities, according to their linkage to sustainability matters. Finally I compare the survey results to the point system offered by Leed-ND Neighborhood Pattern and Design chapter to answer the question if Leed-ND should consider context sensitivity in its rating system. This report concludes that urban design can only be successful and sustainable if it appreciates and respects local context. While the new Leed-ND rating system has done a good job on bringing attention to many important matters, it still doesn't consider vital aspects of good design such as contexts and identity.
title: Direct and indirect involvement of HCV infection in the pathogenesis of myocardial fibrosis in Thalassemia Major
Creators: name: Tudisca, Chiara
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cardiac
subject: MR
subject: Diagnostic procedure

description: Aims and objectives Methods and materials Results Conclusion Personal information References
description: Aims and objectives: In thalassemia major (TM), myocardial fibrosis has been detected using the late gadolinium enanched (LGE) cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) technique and a positive correlation with anti-HCV antibodies has been described...
title: Orthopedic devices in spinal surgery, the radiologist report
Creators: name: Padron Rodriguez, Noelia
Publisher: name: European Congress of Radiology
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Bones
subject: Anatomy
subject: Neuroradiology spine
subject: Conventional radiography
subject: Diagnostic procedure
subject: Education
subject: Surgery
subject: Prostheses

description: Learning objectives Background Findings and procedure details Conclusion Personal information References
description: Learning objectives: The main purpose of this presentation is to help radiologist with the elaboration of their report when they encounter a variety of spinal hardware of patients that have had a spinal surgery. That report is expected to be complete, practical and...
Tracing the Milky Way's journey through time
Creators: name: Casali, Giada
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: In the era of large spectroscopic surveys, high-quality spectra can contribute to understand how our Galaxy formed and evolved until the present-day structure, not only providing high-precision abundances of elements belonging to the different nucleosynthesis channels, but also constraining one of the most elusive quantities in astrophysics, i.e., stellar age. Some abundance ratios, called chemical clocks, have proved to be excellent indicators of the stellar age. We can classify them into two families: ratios composed by elements whose surface abundances vary during stellar evolution, such as [C/N], or ratios that are modified by the Galactic chemical evolution, such as [Y/Mg], [Y/Al] etc. In this talk, we aim at describing our method to calibrate empirical relations between abundance ratios, metallicity and stellar ages, using stars with asteroseismic ages (from the Kepler, K2 and TESS samples) present in the APOGEE, Gaia-ESO and GALAH surveys as calibrators. Finally, I will briefly show how high-quality spectra (HARPS-N@TNG and FIES@NOT) of a sample of 68 Kepler stars, for which we have precise ages from asteroseismology using individual mode frequencies, can enhance our ability to calibrate stellar age-chemistry relationships using chemical clocks. The orthogonal constraints offered by asteroseismic age, precise chemical compositions from ground-based high-resolution spectroscopy, and dynamics from the Gaia mission open the door to a more accurate understanding of the chemical evolution of the Galactic disk, tracing the processes of chemical enrichment with time.