cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Latino/a Students' Funds of Knowledge: A Look at Home Literacy and the Opportunity for School Incorporation
Creators: name: Parry, Elizabeth S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The literature review study addressed the importance for educators to be knowledgeable about
students’ home literacies. It will address the significance of educators taking on the role of an
ethnographer within their classroom. It specifically addressed Latino/a students. The main
research questions posed in this study are the following: 1) What is significant about Latino
literacy practices? 2) What are pedagogical implications for engaging Latino funds of
knowledge? 3) What is the importance, socio-politically and academically, of Latino students’
cultural identities? The study provides key definitions of funds of knowledge and literacy,
contextual information and historical information on Latino/s in the United States, with a
demographic focus on North Carolina. Following this, key theory and practices in relation to
funds of knowledge will be discussed. In the results, pedagogical practices related to the theories
and practices from the literature review will be given. By using qualitative methods, such as
learning about the family histories of their students and their families, educators will be able to
implement pedagogical practices that fit toward the needs of the students within their specific
classroom.
Reformulating noncontextuality inequalities in an operational approach
Creators: name: Xu, Zhen-Peng
name: Saha, Debashis
name: Su, Hong-Yi
name: Pawlowski, Marcin
name: Chen, Jing-Ling
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A new theory-independent noncontextuality inequality is presented [Phys. Rev. Lett. 115, 110403 (2015)] based on Kochen-Specker (KS) set without imposing the assumption of determinism. By proposing novel noncontextuality inequalities, we show that such result can be generalized from KS set to the noncontextuality inequalities not only for state-independent but also for state-dependent scenario. The YO-13 ray and $n$ cycle ray are considered as examples.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures. Published version
Investigating the binding interaction between human factor XIII and fibrinogen
Creators: name: Boutelle, Anthony M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Venous thrombosis occurs when pathological clotting arises in the venous circulation. Factor XIII (FXIII) crosslinks fibrin, increasing the mechanical stability of clots. FXIII binds to fibrinogen, which accelerates enzymatic activation of FXIII. Recent work implicated FXIII-fibrinogen binding as a determinant of thrombus size. Murine studies suggest that fibrinogen γ-chain residues 390-396, which are highly conserved in human fibrinogen, mediate this binding.
Estimating the smoothness of a Gaussian random field from irregularly spaced data via higher-order quadratic variations
Creators: name: Loh, Wei-Liem
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This article introduces a method for estimating the smoothness of a stationary, isotropic Gaussian random field from irregularly spaced data. This involves novel constructions of higher-order quadratic variations and the establishment of the corresponding fixed-domain asymptotic theory. In particular, we consider: (i) higher-order quadratic variations using nonequispaced line transect data, (ii) second-order quadratic variations from a sample of Gaussian random field observations taken along a smooth curve in ${\mathbb{R}}^2$, (iii) second-order quadratic variations based on deformed lattice data on ${\mathbb{R}}^2$. Smoothness estimators are proposed that are strongly consistent under mild assumptions. Simulations indicate that these estimators perform well for moderate sample sizes.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/15-AOS1365 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
Integrating out lattice gauge fields
Creators: name: Vairinhos, Helvio
name: de Forcrand, Philippe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The sign problem is a major obstacle to our understanding of the phase diagram of QCD at finite baryon density. Several numerical methods have been proposed to tackle this problem, but a full solution to the sign problem is still elusive. Motivated by this problem and by recent advances in diagrammatic Monte Carlo methods, we find a new exact representation of the partition function of pure lattice gauge theory that contains no link variables. This approach can be easily extended to include staggered fermions, and results in a diagrammatic representation of fermionic states as arrangements of monomers, dimers, and fermionic loops saturating the spacetime lattice. Our representations are exact for any value of the lattice coupling, and extend previous representations that are only valid in the strong coupling limit and at $O(β)$. As a concrete example, we construct a monomer-dimer-loop representation of compact lattice QED.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures. Talk presented at CPOD 2014 (Critical Point and Onset of Deconfinement), November 17-21, 2014, Bielefeld, Germany
Shared Immorality and Romantic Relationships: The Potentially Positive Effects of Breaking the Rules
Creators: name: Khrakovsky, David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: We explored the possibility that the romance glorified in popular media of Bonnie and Clyde may have been strengthened through the duo's shared criminal acts. Based on notions of group morality, we predicted that romantic couples sharing a moral transgression would report higher levels of closeness, commitment, and passion in comparison to those who did not. We also predicted that the association between a shared moral transgression and increased attraction would be mediated by increased physiological arousal. To examine these hypotheses, 29 romantic couples were randomly assigned to either cheat together on an anagram task or not. Physiological arousal was measured throughout the experiment, and closeness, commitment, passion, and relationship satisfaction were measured following the anagram task. A series of multilevel models revealed no significant differences between the conditions on any of the variables of interest. Moderation analyses, however, highlighted a few individual factors that might influence the effect of cheating on relationship outcomes. Future directions of research include improving experimental designs for shared moral transgressions, as well as exploring the individual differences that may lead to differential outcomes as a result of shared immorality.
STC: A Simple to Complex Framework for Weakly-supervised Semantic Segmentation
Creators: name: Wei, Yunchao
name: Liang, Xiaodan
name: Chen, Yunpeng
name: Shen, Xiaohui
name: Cheng, Ming-Ming
name: Feng, Jiashi
name: Zhao, Yao
name: Yan, Shuicheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recently, significant improvement has been made on semantic object segmentation due to the development of deep convolutional neural networks (DCNNs). Training such a DCNN usually relies on a large number of images with pixel-level segmentation masks, and annotating these images is very costly in terms of both finance and human effort. In this paper, we propose a simple to complex (STC) framework in which only image-level annotations are utilized to learn DCNNs for semantic segmentation. Specifically, we first train an initial segmentation network called Initial-DCNN with the saliency maps of simple images (i.e., those with a single category of major object(s) and clean background). These saliency maps can be automatically obtained by existing bottom-up salient object detection techniques, where no supervision information is needed. Then, a better network called Enhanced-DCNN is learned with supervision from the predicted segmentation masks of simple images based on the Initial-DCNN as well as the image-level annotations. Finally, more pixel-level segmentation masks of complex images (two or more categories of objects with cluttered background), which are inferred by using Enhanced-DCNN and image-level annotations, are utilized as the supervision information to learn the Powerful-DCNN for semantic segmentation. Our method utilizes $40$K simple images from Flickr.com and 10K complex images from PASCAL VOC for step-wisely boosting the segmentation network. Extensive experimental results on PASCAL VOC 2012 segmentation benchmark well demonstrate the superiority of the proposed STC framework compared with other state-of-the-arts.
description: To Appear in IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence
Attachment and Intentional Triggering of a Partner (Study 2)
Creators: name: HARP Lab
name: Stanton, Sarah
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: attachment anxiety
subject: attachment avoidance
subject: negative relationship behavior
subject: positive relationship behavior
subject: trigger behaviors

description: This preregistration includes the hypotheses and analytic plan for Study 2.
5G SWARM: Wireless technologies evaluation report
Creators: name: ITI, Instituto Tecnológico de Informática
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: industry4.0
5gswarm
2022
5g
ultra low latency
swarm manufacturing

description: 5G SWARM (5G Swarm Manufacturing Innovation Lab) is a research project developed by ITI (Instituto Tecnológico de Informática), funded by IVACE (Instituto Valenciano de Competitividad Empresarial) and the European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF).  The overall objective of the project is to advance the disruption of the traditional plant automation architecture by migrating to a non-linear and fully decentralized scenario enabled by 5G technology. These advances allow for greater flexibility and reconfiguration in the production process, as production modules become separated, independent, and decoupled. This production scenario facilitates an increase in production customization and optimizes cost and resource efficiency for the industrial sector in the Valencian Community.  

This document highlights the benefits of integrating and adapting 5G technology in comparison to traditional in-plant system architectures. To achieve this, emerging wireless technologies are analyzed and compared, and their characteristics are evaluated for various industrial scenarios. Moreover, to optimize 5G network resources, operational thresholds have been assessed by analyzing 5G network parameters to define traffic limits in a specific industrial setting. This objective has a dual purpose: to analyze a 5G network by modifying low-level resource allocation, and to understand the operational thresholds in an industrial scenario characterized by 3GPP.
description: 5G SWARM. Project funded by the Valencian Institute of Business Competitiveness (IVACE) and European Union through the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF), within the public grant program adressed to Technological Institutes of the Valencian Community for the development of non-economic R&D projects carried out in cooperation with companies during 2022 with 207.875,86 €. File number: IMDEEA/2022/32
The Appalling Strangeness of the Mercy of God: Sex, Salvation, and Damnation in Graham Greene's Early Novels
Creators: name: Asher, Anthony M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Greeneland, the name that scholars have given to the world Graham Greene’s characters
inhabit, is cold and unforgiving. It’s dark, and there is almost never a character who is without a
significant moral flaw. It’s a fantastic landscape for an exploration of humanity and its
relationship with God—a topic that fascinated Greene, who was raised the son of an Anglican
boarding-school housemaster, and considered himself an agnostic until he converted to
Catholicism in 1926 to marry Vivien Dayrell Browning (Sherry, vol. 1, 352). His religion and
preoccupation with the relationship between humanity and God influenced his writing for the
duration of his career, which spanned most of the 20th century. He wrote 26 novels, along with
autobiographical works, screenplays, and short stories.
Though most or all of Greene’s novels contain some religious themes, he wrote four in
the first half of his career that critics have deemed his “Catholic novels”: Brighton Rock (1938),
The Power and the Glory (1940), The Heart of the Matter (1948), and The End of the Affair
(1951). Each novel critically examines Catholic beliefs and practices. More importantly, each
produces fierce debates about what does and does not constitute a sin. Along with religious
influences, Greene’s novels are also influenced by his personal experiences and places he lived.
For instance, The End of the Affair is loosely tied to an affair he had with a woman named
Catherine Walston; The Power and the Glory is based on his time spent in Mexico; and The
Heart of the Matter is influenced by the time he spent in Sierra Leone as a spy.
Greene’s preoccupation with religious themes leads me to entitle my thesis “The
Appalling Strangeness of the Mercy of God,” which is a reference to a statement made by an old
priest at the end of Brighton Rock. He says to the young and immature Rose: “You can’t
conceive, my child, nor can I or anyone the…appalling…strangeness of the mercy of God”
(Greene, Brighton 268). As we’ll soon see, God’s mercy isn’t always peaceful—it’s often
agonizing. The word “agony” comes from the classical Latin agōn, meaning a contest or struggle
(OED). In a sense, these novels are agōns. Each character’s path through life is a struggle—a
struggle to find meaning, a struggle to build a relationship with God, and a struggle to answer
two central questions: One, what does it mean to be a good Catholic? Two, how does one
achieve salvation? Through close analyses of each text and, more specifically, their male
protagonists, we’ll attempt to answer these questions.
Thermal expansion coefficient of single crystal silicon from 7 K to 293 K
Creators: name: Middelmann, Thomas
name: Walkov, Alexander
name: Bartl, Guido
name: Schödel, René
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We measured the absolute lengths of three single crystal silicon samples by means of an imaging Twyman-Green interferometer in the temperature range from 7 K to 293 K with uncertainties of about 1 nm. From these measurements we extract the coefficient of thermal expansion with uncertainties in the order of $1\times 10^{-9} {\rm /K}$. To access the functional dependence of the length on the temperature usually polynomials are fitted to the data. Instead we use a physically motivated model equation with 7 fit parameters for the whole temperature range. The coefficient of thermal expansion is obtained from the derivative of the best fit. The measurements conducted in 2012 and 2014 demonstrate a high reproducibility and the agreement of two independently produced samples supports single crystal silicon as reference material for thermal expansion. Although the results for all three samples agree with each other and with measurements performed at other institutes, they significantly differ from the recommended values for thermal expansion of crystalline silicon.
description: article: 7 pages, 5 figures, 1 table; supplemental: 1 page, 1 table
EUTOPIA Citizen Science Starter Kit - Tool 4: Determine if citizen science fits your research
Creators: name: Veeckman, Carina
name: Van den Bogaert, Lawrence
name: Keersmaekers, Floor
name: Livémont, Eline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: citizen science

description: This template is part of Module 4 “Getting started with citizen science” (phase 0 – consider) of the EUTOPIA TRAIN Citizen Science Starter Kit. It helps you to determine if citizen science fits your research. Citizen science does not fit for all research topics. This template helps you to make a profound decision with the help of some decision-making questions.
Attitudes Towards Immigrants in Denmark
Creators: name: Claudi, Jens
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Political Science
subject: FOS: Political science
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: This preregistration form was created on the 27th of March 2020. The form consists of a description of the aim of our study and research design. Furthermore, we present our hypotheses and the plan for the data collection. This form was registered before the data collection began. In the attached file we provide an overview of the attributes and levels of our conjoint profiles. This research project is conducted by Emil Teddy Stachurska and Jens Claudi, University of Copenhagen.
EUTOPIA Citizen Science Starter Kit - Tool 1: Identify your research question
Creators: name: Veeckman, Carina
name: Van den Bogaert, Lawrence
name: Keersmaekers, Floor
name: Livémont, Eline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: citizen science

description: This template is part of Module 4 “Getting started with citizen science” (phase 0 – consider) of the EUTOPIA TRAIN Citizen Science Starter Kit. It helps you to identify a research question for citizen science. Some helpful tips are provided to help you formulate a strong research question.
$p$-adic properties of certain half-integral weight modular forms
Creators: name: Beneish, Lea
name: Frechette, Claire
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we study the parallel cases of Zagier's and Folsom-Ono's grids of weakly holomorphic (resp. weakly holomorphic and mock modular) forms of weights 3/2 and 1/2, investigating their $p$-adic properties under the action of Hecke operators.
Low-temperature spin Coulomb drag in a two-dimensional electron gas
Creators: name: Yashenkin, A. G.
name: Gornyi, I. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The phenomenon of low-temperature spin Coulomb drag in a two-dimensional electron gas is investigated. The spin transresistivity coefficient is essentially enhanced in the diffusive regime, as compared to conventional predictions. The origin of this enhancement is the quantum coherence of spin-up and spin-down electrons propagating in the same random impurity potential and coupled via the Coulomb interaction. A comprehensive analysis of spin and interlayer Coulomb drag effects is presented.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Bullying and undermining behaviours in surgery: A cross - sectional study of surgical trainee experiences in the United Kingdom (UK) & Republic of Ireland (ROI)
Creators: name: Clements, Joshua
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Bullying; Undermining; Surgical training; ASIT, BOTA, JCST

description: A cross sectional study of trainee experiences of bullying and undermining behaviour in the UK & ROI
Examining the Interior of the Llaima Volcano, Chile: Evidence from Receiver Functions
Creators: name: Bishop, Jordan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The Llaima volcano is the second most active volcano in the southern Andes. However, despite its frequent eruptions and close proximity to the towns of Melipueco and Vilcun, not much is known about the interior of the volcano. In 2012, a petrologic study was conducted on the volcano, producing the first images of what its magmatic system is like. However, seismic imaging of the interior of the volcano had yet to be conducted. In this paper, we apply receiver functions to produce the first seismic study of the interior of the Llaima volcano. An iterative deconvolution technique was applied to both deep local events and teleseismic earthquakes recorded by seismometers near the Llaima. Once receiver functions were calculated, H-κ stacking was applied to probe the Earth structure under the volcano and search for areas of partial melting. From this survey, it was found that the Mohorovii discontinuity (Moho) was located at approximately sixty kilometers beneath the volcano, and that a pocket of partial melting was found at approximately twenty kilometers depth. This study provides the first look at the deep magmatic system structure underneath Llaima.
Approximation by Complex Baskakov-Szasz-Durrmeyer Operators in Compact Disks
Creators: name: Gal, Sorin G.
name: Gupta, Vijay
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: In this paper, we deal with the complex Baskakov-Szasz-Durrmeyer mixed operators and study Voronovskaja type results with quantitative estimates for these operators attached to analytic functions of exponential growth in the open disk of radius R. Also, the exact order of approximation is found. The method used allows to construct complex Szasz-type and Baskakov-type approximation operators without involving the values on the positive real axis.
Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Knowledge and Vaccination Rates: Based on Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) United States Data  from 2005-2018
Creators: name: Fitzula, Rebecca
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Human Papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted disease worldwide (CDC, 2017). A literature search was completed identifying HPV milestones and breakthroughs over the years. Several government agencies are working to achieve the goal set by Healthy People 2020 of having 80% uptake of the HPV vaccine by adolescents to prevent infection. However, uptake by the United States has been very low and slow compared to other countries. There is a need to identify and understand the United States population’s knowledge surrounding HPV, the HPV vaccine and barriers to the uptake of the vaccine. The aim of this paper is to identify trends in the knowledge of the U.S. population as related to the understanding of HPV. Then compare these rates of understanding to the HPV regulation changes by the FDA and CDC and campaigns directed at increasing HPV vaccine uptake. Knowledge questions about HPV repeated from a national population-based survey, the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS), will be compared across three HPV-related HINTS questions between 2005 and 2018.  There has been little growth in HPV knowledge in the general population in the U.S. Additional research needs to be conducted to determine the barriers present to the knowledge of HPV and uptake of the vaccine.
Relaxational processes in the one-dimensional Ising model with long-range interactions
Creators: name: Tomita, Yusuke
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Relaxational processes in ordered phases of one-dimensional Ising models with long-range interactions are investigated by Monte Carlo simulations. Three types of spin model, the pure ferromagnetic, the diluted ferromagnetic, and the spin glass models, are examined. The effective dimension of the one-dimensional systems are controlled by a parameter $σ$, which tunes the rate of interaction decay. Systematical investigations of droplet dynamics, from the lower to the upper critical dimension, are conducted by changing the value of $σ$. Comparing numerical data with the droplet theory, it is found that the surface dimension of droplets is distributed around the effective dimension. The distribution in the surface dimension makes the droplet dynamics complex and extremely enhances dynamical crossover.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures
Python Skript zur Seminararbeit
Creators: name: Boeckmann, Luisa
name: Knechtges, Johanna
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Python Skript zur Auswertung großer Sprach-Datensammlungen, welches im Rahmen einer Seminararbeit (Thema: Erstellen eines Datenmanagementplans) an der Universität Potsdam geschrieben wurde. Da die verwendeten Daten frei zugänglich unter https://www.linguistik.hu-berlin.de/en/institut-en/professuren-en/rueg/rueg-corpus verfügbar sind, werden diese nicht bereitgestellt.
Nursing Students’ Impressions of Substance Use Disorder
Creators: name: Cooper, Haley
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Stigma against individuals with substance use disorder (SUD) is prevalent in healthcare, leading to increased barriers to care and worsening outcomes for this population (Crapanzano, 2014; Gonzalez et al., 2017; van Boekel et al., 2013). The objective of this study was to determine the impact of a video intervention on the perceptions of baccalaureate nursing students toward individuals with SUD. An animated video highlighting the lived experience of a person with SUD was created and shown to the nursing student participants, followed by a twelve-question retrospective pretest and posttest survey. The survey asked the participants to assess his or her degree of confidence in, belief in, and agreeance with the statements/questions regarding substance use disorder, both before and after the video intervention. The results showed an average percent of change from 2.5-14.5% (n=84), with each data set showing statistical significance (p<0.05), moderately strong to strong correlation values (r=0.75-0.92), and strong causal relationships (BIC>10). The results show a significant positive improvement in empathic perceptions from nursing students toward individuals with SUD. These findings indicate that there is value in presenting nursing students with perspectives that emphasize the contextual elements of SUD development.
Quantum Interference in Time-Delayed Nonsequential Double Ionization
Creators: name: Maxwell, A. S.
name: Faria, C. Figueira de Morisson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform a systematic analysis of quantum interference in nonsequential double ionization focusing on the recollision-excitation with subsequent ionization (RESI) mechanism, employing the strong-field approximation (SFA). We find that interference has a major influence on the shape, localization and symmetry of the correlated electron momentum distributions. In particular, the fourfold symmetry with regard to the parallel momentum components observed in previous SFA studies is broken. Two types of interference are observed and thoroughly analyzed, namely that caused by electron indistinguishability and intra-cycle events, and that stemming from different excitation channels. We find that interference is most prominent around the diagonal and anti-diagonal in the parallel-momentum plane and provide fully analytical expressions for most interference patterns encountered. We also show that this interference can be controlled by an appropriate choice of phase and excited-state geometry. This leads a to myriad of shapes for the RESI distributions including correlated, anti-correlated and ring-shaped.
description: 14 pages, 13 figures
Using the Future to Discover Project to Evaluate the Performance of Regression Discontinuity Design
Creators: name: Ford, Reuben
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Education Economics
subject: Education
subject: Labor Economics
subject: Economics
subject: Higher Education
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Secondary Education
subject: Postsecondary
subject: Pre-specification
subject: Randomized-controlled trial
subject: RCT
subject: RD
subject: Regression discontinuity
subject: Replication

description: This study takes advantage of the long-standing Future to Discover (FTD) project, conducted by the Social Research and Demonstration Corporation (SRDC), which has very rich data tracking the outcomes of 5,400 former high school students across two cohorts over ten years to conduct an RD analysis and compare its estimates of treatment effects with results obtained from analyses using the RCT design.
Excitation Mechanisms for HCN (1-0) and HCO+ (1-0) in Galaxies from the Great Observatories All-sky LIRG Survey
Creators: name: Privon, G. C.
name: Herrero-Illana, R.
name: Evans, A. S.
name: Iwasawa, K.
name: Perez-Torres, M. A.
name: Armus, L.
name: Diaz-Santos, T.
name: Murphy, E. J.
name: Stierwalt, S.
name: Aalto, S.
name: Mazzarella, J. M.
name: Barcos-Munoz, L.
name: Borish, H. J.
name: Inami, H.
name: Kim, D. -C.
name: Treister, E.
name: Surace, J. A.
name: Lord, S.
name: Conway, J.
name: Frayer, D. T.
name: Alberdi, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new IRAM 30m spectroscopic observations of the $\sim88$ GHz band, including emission from the CCH (n=1-0) multiplet, HCN (1-0), HCO+ (1-0), and HNC (1-0), for a sample of 58 local luminous and ultraluminous infrared galaxies from the Great Observatories All-sky LIRG Survey (GOALS). By combining our new IRAM data with literature data and Spitzer/IRS spectroscopy, we study the correspondence between these putative tracers of dense gas and the relative contribution of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and star formation to the mid-infrared luminosity of each system. We find the HCN (1-0) emission to be enhanced in AGN-dominated systems ($\langle$L'$_{HCN (1-0)}$/L'$_{HCO^+ (1-0)}\rangle=1.84$), compared to composite and starburst-dominated systems ($\langle$L'$_{HCN (1-0)}$/L'$_{HCO^+ (1-0)}\rangle=1.14$, and 0.88, respectively). However, some composite and starburst systems have L'$_{HCN (1-0)}$/L'$_{HCO^+ (1-0)}$ ratios comparable to those of AGN, indicating that enhanced HCN emission is not uniquely associated with energetically dominant AGN. After removing AGN-dominated systems from the sample, we find a linear relationship (within the uncertainties) between $\log_{10}$(L'$_{HCN (1-0)}$) and $\log_{10}$(L$_{IR}$), consistent with most previous findings. L'$_{HCN (1-0)}$/L$_{IR}$, typically interpreted as the dense gas depletion time, appears to have no systematic trend with L$_{IR}$ for our sample of luminous and ultraluminous infrared galaxies, and has significant scatter. The galaxy-integrated HCN (1-0) and HCO+ (1-0) emission do not appear to have a simple interpretation, in terms of the AGN dominance or the star formation rate, and are likely determined by multiple processes, including density and radiative effects.
description: fix presentation of numerical value of y-intercept in eqs 1-3 to match forthcoming ApJ erratum. figure 6 and the conclusions are unaffected
The Effects of Body Size on Electability
Creators: name: Martin, Tisha
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: The purpose of this study was to determine whether or not body type has a statically significant effect on electability. This was accomplished using a survey experiment where the participants were randomly assigned a photo of one of three mock-candidates: a below average sized, average sized, or above average sized candidate. After assessing the candidate, the participants were asked to make a series of character judgements and indicate how likely they were to vote for the candidate. The above average sized candidate was less likely to receive votes than the average sized candidate. Additionally, the above average was judged to be less attractive and less threatening than the average sized candidate in most cases. The participants who are extremely politically active judged the below average candidate to be more approachable than the control, but there were not many other statically significant results regarding the below average sized candidate. Overall, the average sized candidate was judged the most favorably and most likely to receive the participant’s votes. Political participation and knowledge had varying effects on how the participants perceived the three candidates.
Analyzing the Impact of the Earmark Moratorium on U.S. Congressional Coalition Building
Creators: name: Choate, Connor
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Though significant research has been done on earmarks, little has been done on the impact of the moratorium itself. Previous scholars have analyzed the role earmarks play within the act of passing legislation and have suggested that earmarks help facilitate Congressional action and majority coalition building by providing lawmakers with an easily-exchanged carrot to secure members’ votes. Given their documented role within lawmaking, this research seeks to investigate whether the earmark moratorium had the expected negative effect on majority coalition building given that MCs lost one of the tools at their disposal. My results show that the loss of earmarks did indeed negatively impact coalition building, though not precisely as I expected. The magnitude of majority party support in the House was statistically unchanged by the earmark ban, and though House minority support became markedly smaller under the ban, this change was likely not due to the ban. Appropriations bills are, however, passed later on average in both chambers of Congress under the moratorium. The Senate also secured a smaller proportion of majority and minority party support without earmarks. Finally, there were also fewer appropriations bills passed that fund the government for the entire fiscal year under the ban, meaning there were fewer regular spending bills and more omnibus and continuing resolutions, which indicate an increased use of alternative methods of passing appropriations bills, potentially to compensate for the loss of earmarks.
Dust models post-Planck: constraining the far-infrared opacity of dust in the diffuse interstellar medium
Creators: name: Fanciullo, Lapo
name: Guillet, Vincent
name: Aniano, Gonzalo
name: Jones, Anthony P.
name: Ysard, Nathalie
name: Miville-Deschênes, Marc-Antoine
name: Boulanger, François
name: Köhler, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compare the performance of several dust models in reproducing the dust spectral energy distribution (SED) per unit extinction in the diffuse interstellar medium (ISM). We use our results to constrain the variability of the optical properties of big grains in the diffuse ISM, as published by the Planck collaboration. We use two different techniques to compare the predictions of dust models to data from the Planck HFI, IRAS and SDSS surveys. First, we fit the far-infrared emission spectrum to recover the dust extinction and the intensity of the interstellar radiation field (ISRF). Second, we infer the ISRF intensity from the total power emitted by dust per unit extinction, and then predict the emission spectrum. In both cases, we test the ability of the models to reproduce dust emission and extinction at the same time. We identify two issues. Not all models can reproduce the average dust emission per unit extinction: there are differences of up to a factor $\sim2$ between models, and the best accord between model and observation is obtained with the more emissive grains derived from recent laboratory data on silicates and amorphous carbons. All models fail to reproduce the variations in the emission per unit extinction if the only variable parameter is the ISRF intensity: this confirms that the optical properties of dust are indeed variable in the diffuse ISM. Diffuse ISM observations are consistent with a scenario where both ISRF intensity and dust optical properties vary. The ratio of the far-infrared opacity to the $V$ band extinction cross-section presents variations of the order of $\sim20\%$ ($40-50\%$ in extreme cases), while ISRF intensity varies by $\sim30\%$ ($\sim60\%$ in extreme cases). This must be accounted for in future modelling.
description: A&A, in press
Associations between message self and social relevance and sharing intentions
Creators: name: Cosme, Danielle
name: Falk, Emily
name: Scholz, Christin
name: Dore, Bruce
name: Burns, Shannon
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Communication
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: Evidence from neuroimaging studies suggests that self and social relevance are two important factors for message sharing intentions (Baek et al., 2017) and virality (Scholz et al., 2017). Here, we aim to corroborate these findings with behavioral evidence assessing the relationships between self-reported self and social relevance and sharing intentions of health messages related to COVID-19 and messages about the environment.
Listening to The Heart: Exploring Atmospheres through Experiments with Affective Capture and Sound
Creators: name: Liu, Tony Hong
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Given this experimental research design informed by non-representational
methodologies, I aim to answer two questions. What do experiments with affective capture
through atmospheres of listening reveal about academic discussions on affect, emotion, and
affective atmospheres? Moreover, what are the benefits of engaging in the discursive
deconstruction of feeling and atmosphere if a disentangling is impossible? To summarize, I
reaffirm the understanding of atmosphere as one which blurs the boundary between emotion and
affect because of experiential subtleties and an affective excess that sometimes manifests from
atmosphere (Anderson, 2009, p. 80). As for affect, I emphasize its precognitive and transpersonal
qualities. Regarding discursive analysis of atmosphere, I argue that the process can help attune to
affective life by revealing spatial-temporal extensions of subjectivity, and in the process, provide
opportunities to explore difference informing the non-representational call to enliven the world.
The following is a breakdown of this project. Chapter 1 is a literature review of
geographic engagements with sound, affect and emotion, as well as affective atmospheres.
Chapter 2 details the creation of methodologies for listening and experiments with affective
capture. Chapter 3 details methods for audio performance creation and affective analysis
including creative performance pieces and arguments on subjectivity. Finally, in the conclusion,
I emphasize remarks answering the two questions posed earlier while positing further research
possibilities with listening.
Discrete quantum geometries and their effective dimension
Creators: name: Thürigen, Johannes
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: History and Philosophy of Physics (physics.hist-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In several approaches towards a quantum theory of gravity, such as group field theory and loop quantum gravity, quantum states and histories of the geometric degrees of freedom turn out to be based on discrete spacetime. The most pressing issue is then how the smooth geometries of general relativity, expressed in terms of suitable geometric observables, arise from such discrete quantum geometries in some semiclassical and continuum limit. In this thesis I tackle the question of suitable observables focusing on the effective dimension of discrete quantum geometries. For this purpose I give a purely combinatorial description of the discrete structures which these geometries have support on. As a side topic, this allows to present an extension of group field theory to cover the combinatorially larger kinematical state space of loop quantum gravity. Moreover, I introduce a discrete calculus for fields on such fundamentally discrete geometries with a particular focus on the Laplacian. This permits to define the effective-dimension observables for quantum geometries. Analysing various classes of quantum geometries, I find as a general result that the spectral dimension is more sensitive to the underlying combinatorial structure than to the details of the additional geometric data thereon. Semiclassical states in loop quantum gravity approximate the classical geometries they are peaking on rather well and there are no indications for stronger quantum effects. On the other hand, in the context of a more general model of states which are superposition over a large number of complexes, based on analytic solutions, there is a flow of the spectral dimension from the topological dimension $d$ on low energy scales to a real number $0
description: PhD thesis, Humboldt-Universit\"at zu Berlin; urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-100232371; http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/docviews/abstract.php?id=42042
Economic Evaluations to inform resource allocation for the prevention and management of Clostridioides difficile infections: A scoping review protocol
Creators: name: Richardson, Marina
name: Erman, Aysegul
name: Sander, Beate
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: C. difficile
subject: clostridioides difficile
subject: economic evaluation
subject: health technology assessment
subject: resource allocation
subject: scoping review

description: This scoping review aims to describe the characteristics of economic evaluations of interventions for the prevention and management of C. difficile infections
Olof Vessberg und Alfred Westholm, The Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Bd. 4, 3 - The Hellenistic and Roman Periods in Cyprus
Creators: name: Alföldi, Maria R.
Publisher: name: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts
Year: 2023

description: Olof Vessberg und Alfred Westholm, The Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Bd. 4, 3 - The Hellenistic and Roman Periods in Cyprus. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition, Stockholm. Lund 1956. XXXIII und 264 S., 24 Taf. und 64 Abb.
description: Germania : Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, Bd. 40 Nr. 1 (1962)
Controlling Below-Threshold Nonsequential Double Ionization via Quantum Interference
Creators: name: Maxwell, A. S.
name: Faria, C. Figueira de Morisson
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We show through simulation that quantum interference in non-sequential double ionization can be used to control the recollision with subsequent ionization (RESI) mechanism. This includes the shape, localization and symmetry of RESI electron-momentum distributions, which may be shifted from a correlated to an anti-correlated distribution or vice versa, far below the direct ionization threshold intensity. As a testing ground, we reproduce recent experimental results by employing specific coherent superpositions of excitation channels. We examine two types of interference, from electron indistinguishability and intra-cycle events, and from different excitation channels.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
Disruption of Water Homeostasis Affects AAV Transport Across the Blood-Brain Barrier
Creators: name: Sun, Austin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Adeno-associated viruses (AAV) have the potential to serve as delivery vectors for gene therapy treatments, since they are non-inflammatory and non-pathogenic. The aim of this study was to investigate how decrease in cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) flow affects the transduction and spread of different AAV serotypes. Aquaporin-4 (AQP4) acts as a water channel which assists in clearance of interstitial solutes from the central nervous system (CNS). Here, we examined how AQP4 deficiency, which can occur with aging and in neurological disease, influences the entry and gene transfer efficiency of AAV into the brain.  The transgene expression of AAV was compared between B6/129 wild-type control mice and mice deficient for AQP4 when intravenously (IV) injected. AAV9 and AAV.Rh10 were examined due to their ability to cross the blood-brain barrier and current use in clinical trial therapies; AAV1 was examined because it doesn’t enter the brain in normal physiological conditions. The accumulation of AAV9 and AAV.Rh10 in the cortex and thalamus was not significantly different between AQP4 null and B6/129 mice. Interestingly, we found that AAV1 had increased uptake into the brains of AQP4 null versus wild-type mice. This trend continued when AAV1 was injected into the brains of an aged set of mice. We analyzed whether AQP4 knockout mice had a compromised blood-brain barrier (BBB) through injection of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) into the tail vein to assess changes in uptake. In summary, our findings highlight the role of AQP4 in the passage of AAV into the brain. The study has clinical implications that could inform CNS gene therapy trials, but also constitutes a fundamental step towards understanding the mechanisms by which certain AAV serotypes cross the BBB.
Generic finite size scaling for discontinuous nonequilibrium phase transitions into absorbing states
Creators: name: de Oliveira, M. M.
name: da Luz, M. G. E.
name: Fiore, C. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on quasi-stationary distribution ideas, a general finite size scaling theory is proposed for discontinuous nonequilibrium phase transitions into absorbing states. Analogously to the equilibrium case, we show that quantities such as, response functions, cumulants, and equal area probability distributions, all scale with the volume, thus allowing proper estimates for the thermodynamic limit. To illustrate these results, five very distinct lattice models displaying nonequilibrium transitions -- to single and infinitely many absorbing states -- are investigated. The innate difficulties in analyzing absorbing phase transitions are circumvented through quasi-stationary simulation methods. Our findings (allied to numerical studies in the literature) strongly point to an unifying discontinuous phase transition scaling behavior for equilibrium and this important class of nonequilibrium systems.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures
From Crystals to Disordered Crystals: A Hidden Order-Disorder Transition
Creators: name: Tong, Hua
name: Tan, Peng
name: Xu, Ning
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find an order-disorder transition from crystals to disordered crystals for static packings of frictionless spheres. While the geometric indicators are mostly blind to the transition, disordered crystals already exhibit properties apart from crystals. The transition approaches the close packing of hard spheres, giving rise to the singularity of the close packing point. We evidence that both the transition and properties of disordered crystals are jointly determined by the structural orders and density. Near the transition, the elastic moduli and coordination number of disordered crystals show particular pressure dependence distinct from both crystals and jammed solids.
description: 8 pages, 8 figures