cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Exploiting orbital constraints from optical data to detect binary gamma-Ray pulsars
Creators: name: Nieder, L.
name: Allen, Bruce
name: Clark, C.J.
name: Pletsch, H.J.
Publisher: name: London : Institute of Physics Publ. (IOP)
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: astrophysical applications
subject: orbital constraints
subject: binary gamma-ray pulsars
subject: optical observation
subject: periodic pulsations
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::520 | Astronomie, Kartographie

description: It is difficult to discover pulsars via their gamma-ray emission because current instruments typically detect fewer than one photon per million rotations. This creates a significant computing challenge for isolated pulsars, where the typical parameter search space spans wide ranges in four dimensions. It is even more demanding when the pulsar is in a binary system, where the orbital motion introduces several additional unknown parameters. Building on earlier work by Pletsch & Clark, we present optimal methods for such searches. These can also incorporate external constraints on the parameter space to be searched, for example, from optical observations of a presumed binary companion. The solution has two parts. The first is the construction of optimal search grids in parameter space via a parameter space metric, for initial semicoherent searches and subsequent fully coherent follow-ups. The second is a method to demodulate and detect the periodic pulsations. These methods have different sensitivity properties than traditional radio searches for binary pulsars and might unveil new populations of pulsars. © 2020. The Author(s). Published by the American Astronomical Society.
title: O archebuză din secolul al XVII-lea descoperită în Târgul Romanului
Creators: name: Hănceanu, George Dan
Publisher: name: University Library Heidelberg
Year: 2016

description: A Seventeenth-Century Harquebus Discovered in Roman

In 2012, on the occasion of the renovation of the library "George Radu Melidon" in Roman, which lies on a plot that once belonged to the medieval town of Roman, after a survey inside the yard (marked as S.I) we identified the side of a dwelling that proved to be a manufactory. One of the first objects discovered in the manufactory (which had been was destroyed by fire) was a bronze barrel badly damaged by corrosion, doubled by traces of burning and by pieces of carbonized wood. After restoration, the object proved to be an harquebus. The barrel, circular inside and hexagonal outside, presented an aperture for slow match and a perforation at the end for fixing it on a piece of wood for a longer weapon. Dimensions: barrel – length – 450mm; thickness – 10mm; mouth diameter – 30mm; calibre – 17mm; diameter of the support – 38mm) and the hook (length – 40mm; width – 20mm). Total weight – 2.700 kg. We could not identify the mark of the manufactory but we supposed that the weapon could be locally manufactured (in Transylvania) or imported from the German states or from Bohemia. The weapon (a transitory model from heavy guns with a thick, long and heavy barrel, to those with a thin, short and small-weight barrel) can be chronologically assigned to the 17th, taking into account the other materials found in the manufactory such as coins and tools. The presence of the weapon in this location can be explained by its condition – the broken barrel that needed some repair. Until now the discovery of such a weapon type remains singular for the area of today's Moldavia, but for the territory of medieval Moldavia we can also count a piece from Cetatea Albă discovered in 1929 and dated in the period of Stephen the Great (Ștefan cel Mare).

 Keywords: Roman old town, library, harquebus, 17th century, Moldova
Genome-wide scan reveals association of psoriasis with IL-23 and NF-κB pathways
Creators: name: Elder, James T.
name: Ding, Jun
name: Rahman, Proton
name: Helms, Cynthia
name: Collaborative Association Study of Psoriasis
name: Lathrop, G. Mark
name: Wise, Carol A.
name: Tejasvi, Trilokraj
name: Begovich, Ann B.
name: Abecasis, Gonçalo R.
name: Krueger, Gerald G.
name: Schrodi, Steven J.
name: Feng, Bing-Jian
name: Stuart, Philip E.
name: Goldgar, David
name: Liao, Wilson
name: Weichenthal, Michael
name: Duffin, Kristina Callis
name: Li, Yun
name: Bowcock, Anne M.
name: Gladman, Dafna
name: Menter, Alan
name: Nair, Rajan P.
name: Ruether, Andreas
name: Kwok, Pui-Yan
name: Voorhees, John J.
name: Schreiber, Stefan
name: Guthery, Stephen L.
name: Prahalad, Sampath
name: Fischer, Judith
name: Gudjonsson, Johann E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Psoriasis is a common immune-mediated disorder that affects the skin, nails and joints. To identify psoriasis susceptibility loci, we genotyped 438,670 SNPs in 1,409 psoriasis cases and 1,436 controls of European ancestry. We followed up 21 promising SNPs in 5,048 psoriasis cases and 5,041 controls. Our results provide strong support for the association of at least seven genetic loci and psoriasis (each with combined P less than 5 × 10−8). Loci with confirmed association include HLA-C, three genes involved in IL-23 signaling (IL23A, IL23R, IL12B), two genes that act downstream of TNF-α and regulate NF-κB signaling (TNIP1, TNFAIP3) and two genes involved in the modulation of Th2 immune responses (IL4, IL13). Although the proteins encoded in these loci are known to interact biologically, we found no evidence for epistasis between associated SNPs. Our results expand the catalog of genetic loci implicated in psoriasis susceptibility and suggest priority targets for study in other auto-immune disorders.
Florian Bieber, Debating Nationalism: The Global Spread of Nations. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020 and Nicola Miller, Republics of Knowledge: Nations of the Future in Latin America. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2020.
Creators: name: Marak, Andrae M.
Publisher: name: World History Connected
Year: 2023

description: World History Connected, Vol. 18 No. 3: Fall 2021
title: Trier und seine Alterthümer. Ein Wegweiser für Einheimische und Fremde, von P. Chr. Sternberg, Trier
Creators: name: Freudenberg, Johannes
Publisher: name: University Library Heidelberg
Year: 2016

description: Rezension zu: Trier und seine Alterthümer. Ein Wegweiser für Einheimische und Fremde. Nebst einer Ansicht der Porta Nigra, von P. Chr. Sternberg, Trier. Verlag der Braun'schen Buchhandlung. 12. 132 S.
Types of critical points of the Kowalevski gyrostat in double field
Creators: name: Kharlamov, M. P.
name: Ryabov, P. E.
name: Savushkin, A. Y.
name: Smirnov, G. E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 70E17, 70G40

description: The problem of motion of the Kowalevski type gyrostat in double force field is considered. According to the classification used in the theory of Liouville integrable Hamiltonian systems, the types of critical points of all ranks of the integral map are calculated.
description: LaTex,12 pages
Are non-market benefits of soybean production significant? : An extended economic analysis of smallholder soybean farming in Upper West region of northern Ghana
Creators: name: Asodina, Francis Akabo
name: Adams, Faizal
name: Nimoh, Fred
name: Weyori, Emmanuel A.
name: Wongnaa, Camillus Abawiera
name: Bakang, John Edudes‑Andvi
Publisher: name: London : Biomed Central
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: economic analysis
subject: food security
subject: non-market benefits
subject: smallholder farming systems sustainability
subject: soybean
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::630 | Landwirtschaft, Veterinärmedizin

description: Background: Traditional cost–benefit analysis of soybean production tends to largely focus on financial benefits to farmers, and less so on non-market co-benefits in sustaining smallholder farming systems. Relying solely on the standard financial analysis undermines the actual benefit of soybean production, which often results in ineffectual policy designs. An economic analysis that incorporates key non-pecuniary co-benefits of soybean production provide vital insight that contributes to improving productivity and overall economic well-being of farmers. Cross-sectional data were collected from 271 farmers to estimate the overall economic benefit of soybean that captures both market and non-market attributes in three major producing districts (Sissala-West, Wa-East, and Dafiama-Busie-Issa (DBI)) of Ghana. Results: When non-market co-benefits were omitted, soybean production was not profitable (-Gh¢103.10/ha or -US$22.91) in DBI while Sissala-West and Wa-East had modest profit margins. However, the financial analysis changed dramatically when an average non-market value of Gh¢345.69 (US$76.82) was incorporated in the analysis. The soybean system was, therefore, financially viable for all the districts when the non-market attributes of the crop were considered. Conclusions: The findings demonstrate the importance of the non-pecuniary benefits of soybean in smallholder farming systems for policy decision-making. For instance, farmers’ motivation for soybean production is closely linked to those ancillary benefits like the biological nitrogen fixed in the soil for cultivation of other crops. Similarly, crop administrators and policy makers’ support for conservation agriculture and green environment is tied to these non-market co-benefits. © 2020, The Author(s).
On the validity of the paraxial approximation for electron acceleration with radially polarized laser beams
Creators: name: Marceau, Vincent
name: Varin, Charles
name: Piché, Michel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In the study of laser-driven electron acceleration, it has become customary to work within the framework of paraxial wave optics. Using an exact solution to the Helmholtz equation as well as its paraxial counterpart, we perform numerical simulations of electron acceleration with a high-power TM01 beam. For beam waist sizes at which the paraxial approximation was previously recognized valid, we highlight significant differences in the angular divergence and energy distribution of the electron bunches produced by the exact and the paraxial solutions. Our results demonstrate that extra care has to be taken when working under the paraxial approximation in the context of electron acceleration with radially polarized laser beams.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures. Accepted for publication in Optics Letters
Spatial variation of the surface state onset close to three types of surface steps on Ag(111) studied by scanning tunnelling spectroscopy
Creators: name: Heidorn, Sarah
name: Morgenstern, Karina
Publisher: name: Bristol : IOP Publishing Ltd.
Year: 2011
Subjects: subject: Dislocation slip
subject: Local density of state
subject: Local electronic structures
subject: Scanning tunnelling spectroscopy
subject: Spatial variations
subject: Surface influences
subject: Surface state
subject: Surface steps
subject: Edge dislocations
subject: Electronic structure
subject: Spectroscopy
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: A regular step, a dislocation slip step and a step formed by the emergence of a split edge dislocation (SED) to the surface influence the local density of states close to the onset of the surface state as investigated by scanning tunnelling spectroscopy at low temperature.The onset of the surface state shifts close to the regular step and the dislocation slip step by approximately 15 meV towards the Fermi energy.Additional maxima above the onset are only observed if a second step leads to confinement.In both cases, the conductivity decreases close to the step.However, an increase in conductance above the surface state onset is observed close to the SED step.Furthermore, a variety of additional states are discernable.Thus, different types of steps lead to markedly different changes in the local electronic structure on surfaces.© IOP Publishing Ltd and Deutsche Physikalische Gesellschaft.
20240109 FINAL Clinical Challenges of Paraneoplastic Endocrine Metabolic Syndromes An Illustrative Example.pdf
Creators: name: Shankar, Srushti
name: Srikanta, Sathyanarayana
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 320208
subject: Endocrinology

description: 20240109 FINAL Clinical Challenges of Paraneoplastic Endocrine Metabolic Syndromes An Illustrative Example
Saxifraga adscendens
Creators: name: Becherer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1956
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: S.adscendens L. (S. controversa Sternb.) Cat. 159 und 426. Obere Höhengrenze festzustellen. Die Angabe des Cat.: «3100m», ist nicht begründet. l: Susanfe (Wilczek); Glacier des Fonds ob Barberine (Coquoz). - 3:Pasdu Lens ob Sembrancher (P.) Alpe de Tracuit obzinal (Romieux); im Saastalauch im Gebiet Fee-Mittaghorn-Egginer- Hohlaubgletscher (A. Keller, Huber). Var. intermedia (Vaccari) (S. contr. var. intermedia Vaccari 1903, S. tridactylites var. subadscendens [Schur] Vaccari1909) - 3: Col de Fenetre de Bagnes (Vaccari). Var. Bellardii (A1L)Engler (S.petraea var. Bellardii Gaudin, S. adsc.var.Bellardiana [Ser.] Schinz et Keller) - 3: Valsorey (Guyot); Val de Bagnes (Thomas).
description: Published as part of Becherer, 1956, Florae Vallesiacae Supplementum, pp. 1-556 in Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 71 on pages 1-556
Large-scale genome-wide association analysis of bipolar disorder identifies a new susceptibility locus near ODZ4
Creators: name: Lin, Danyu
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: We conducted a combined genome-wide association study (GWAS) of 7,481 individuals with bipolar disorder (cases) and 9,250 controls as part of the Psychiatric GWAS Consortium. Our replication study tested 34 SNPs in 4,496 independent cases with bipolar disorder and 42,422 independent controls and found that 18 of 34 SNPs had P less than 0.05, with 31 of 34 SNPs having signals with the same direction of effect (P = 3.8 × 10−7). An analysis of all 11,974 bipolar disorder cases and 51,792 controls confirmed genome-wide significant evidence of association for CACNA1C and identified a new intronic variant in ODZ4. We identified a pathway comprised of subunits of calcium channels enriched in bipolar disorder association intervals. Finally, a combined GWAS analysis of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder yielded strong association evidence for SNPs in CACNA1C and in the region of NEK4-ITIH1-ITIH3-ITIH4. Our replication results imply that increasing sample sizes in bipolar disorder will confirm many additional loci.
Tile-Based Two-Dimensional Phase Unwrapping for Digital Holography Using a Modular Framework
Creators: name: Antonopoulos, Georgios C.
name: Steltner, Benjamin
name: Heisterkamp, Alexander
name: Ripken, Tammo
name: Meyer, Heiko
name: Zhang, Heye
Publisher: name: San Francisco : Public Library Science
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: algorithms
subject: holography
subject: polynomial
subject: Gaussian noise
subject: linear algebra
subject: physical mapping
subject: magnetic resonance imaging
subject: machine learning algorithms
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik

description: A variety of physical and biomedical imaging techniques, such as digital holography, interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) enable measurement of the phase of a physical quantity additionally to its amplitude. However, the phase can commonly only be measured modulo 2π, as a so called wrapped phase map. Phase unwrapping is the process of obtaining the underlying physical phase map from the wrapped phase. Tile-based phase unwrapping algorithms operate by first tessellating the phase map, then unwrapping individual tiles, and finally merging them to a continuous phase map. They can be implemented computationally efficiently and are robust to noise. However, they are prone to failure in the presence of phase residues or erroneous unwraps of single tiles. We tried to overcome these shortcomings by creating novel tile unwrapping and merging algorithms as well as creating a framework that allows to combine them in modular fashion. To increase the robustness of the tile unwrapping step, we implemented a model-based algorithm that makes efficient use of linear algebra to unwrap individual tiles. Furthermore, we adapted an established pixel-based unwrapping algorithm to create a quality guided tile merger. These original algorithms as well as previously existing ones were implemented in a modular phase unwrapping C++ framework. By examining different combinations of unwrapping and merging algorithms we compared our method to existing approaches. We could show that the appropriate choice of unwrapping and merging algorithms can significantly improve the unwrapped result in the presence of phase residues and noise. Beyond that, our modular framework allows for efficient design and test of new tile-based phase unwrapping algorithms. The software developed in this study is freely available.
SCUBA-2: on-sky calibration using submillimetre standard sources
Creators: name: Dempsey, Jessica T.
name: Friberg, Per
name: Jenness, Tim
name: Tilanus, Remo P. J.
name: Thomas, Holly S.
name: Holland, Wayne S.
name: Bintley, Dan
name: Berry, David S.
name: Chapin, Edward L.
name: Chrysostomou, Antonio
name: Davis, Gary R.
name: Gibb, Andrew G.
name: Parsons, Harriet
name: Robson, E. Ian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: SCUBA-2 is a 10000-bolometer submillimetre camera on the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope (JCMT). The instrument commissioning was completed in September 2011, and full science operations began in October 2011. To harness the full potential of this powerful new astronomical tool, the instrument calibration must be accurate and well understood. To this end, the algorithms for calculating the line-of-sight opacity have been improved, and the derived atmospheric extinction relationships at both wavebands of the SCUBA-2 instrument are presented. The results from over 500 primary and secondary calibrator observations have allowed accurate determination of the flux conversion factors (FCF) for the 850 and 450 micron arrays. Descriptions of the instrument beam-shape and photometry methods are presented. The calibration factors are well determined, with relative calibration accuracy better than 5 per cent at 850 microns and 10 per cent at 450 microns, reflecting the success of the derived opacity relations as well as the stability of the performance of the instrument over several months. The sample-size of the calibration observations and accurate FCFs have allowed the determination of the 850 and 450 micron fluxes of several well-known submillimetre sources, and these results are compared with previous measurements from SCUBA.
description: 12 pages, 18 figures, 4 tables, Accepted by MNRAS
Rapidly measured indicators of recreational water quality and swimming-associated illness at marine beaches: A prospective cohort study
Creators: name: Chern, Eunice
name: Wymer, Larry
name: Sams, Elizabeth
name: Dufour, Alfred P
name: Beach, Michael
name: Brenner, Kristen P
name: Love, David
name: Li, Quanlin
name: Noble, Rachel T.
name: Rankin, Clifford C
name: Wade, Timothy J
name: Haugland, Richard
Publisher: name: BioMed Central Ltd
Year: 2010

description: Abstract Introduction In the United States and elsewhere, recreational water quality is monitored for fecal indicator bacteria to help prevent swimming-associated illnesses. Standard methods to measure these bacteria take at least 24 hours to obtain results. Molecular approaches such as quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) can estimate these bacteria faster, in under 3 hours. Previously, we demonstrated that measurements of the fecal indicator bacteria Enterococcus using qPCR were associated with gastrointestinal (GI) illness among swimmers at freshwater beaches. In this paper, we report on results from three marine beach sites. Methods We interviewed beach-goers and collected water samples at marine beaches affected by treated sewage discharges in Mississippi in 2005, and Rhode Island and Alabama in 2007. Ten to twelve days later, we obtained information about gastrointestinal, respiratory, eye, ear and skin symptoms by telephone. We tested water samples for fecal indicator organisms using qPCR and other methods. Results We enrolled 6,350 beach-goers. The occurrence of GI illness among swimmers was associated with a log10-increase in exposure to qPCR-determined estimates of fecal indicator organisms in the genus Enterococcus (AOR = 2.6, 95% CI 1.3-5.1) and order Bacteroidales (AOR = 1.9, 95% CI 1.3-2.9). Estimates of organisms related to Clostridium perfringens and a subgroup of organisms in the genus Bacteroides were also determined by qPCR in 2007, as was F+ coliphage, but relationships between these indicators and illness were not statistically significant. Conclusions This study provides the first evidence of a relationship between gastrointestinal illness and estimates of fecal indicator organisms determined by qPCR at marine beaches.
An Understanding of the Shoulder of Giants: Jovian Planets around Late K Dwarf Stars and the Trend with Stellar Mass
Creators: name: Gaidos, Eric
name: Fischer, Debra A.
name: Mann, Andrew W.
name: Howard, Andrew W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Analyses of exoplanet statistics suggest a trend of giant planet occurrence with host star mass, a clue to how planets like Jupiter form. One missing piece of the puzzle is the occurrence around late K dwarf stars (masses of 0.5-0.75Msun and effective temperatures of 3900-4800K). We analyzed four years of Doppler radial velocities data of 110 late K dwarfs, one of which hosts two previously reported giant planets. We estimate that 4.0+/-2.3% of these stars have Saturn-mass or larger planets with orbital periods <245d, depending on the planet mass distribution and RV variability of stars without giant planets. We also estimate that 0.7+/-0.5% of similar stars observed by Kepler have giant planets. This Kepler rate is significantly (99% confidence) lower than that derived from our Doppler survey, but the difference vanishes if only the single Doppler system (HIP 57274) with completely resolved orbits is considered. The difference could also be explained by the exclusion of close binaries (without giant planets) from the Doppler but not Kepler surveys, the effect of long-period companions and stellar noise on the Doppler data, or an intrinsic difference between the two populations. Our estimates for late K dwarfs bridge those for solar-type stars and M dwarfs and support a positive trend with stellar mass. Small sample size precludes statements about finer structure, e.g. a "shoulder" in the distribution of giant planets with stellar mass. Future surveys such as the Next Generation Transit Survey and the Transiting Exoplanet Satellite Survey will ameliorate this deficiency.
description: Accepted to The Astrophysical Journal
Stellar dust production and composition in the Magellanic Clouds
Creators: name: Kemper, F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dust reservoir in the interstellar medium of a galaxy is constantly being replenished by dust formed in the stellar winds of evolved stars. Due to their vicinity, nearby irregular dwarf galaxies the Magellanic Clouds provide an opportunity to obtain a global picture of the dust production in galaxies. The Small and Large Magellanic Clouds have been mapped with the Spitzer Space Telescope from 3.6 to 160 μm, and these wavelengths are especially suitable to study thermal dust emission. In addition, a large number of individual evolved stars have been targeted for 5-40 μm spectroscopy, revealing the mineralogy of these sources. Here I present an overview on the work done on determining the total dust production rate in the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds, as well as a first attempt at revealing the global composition of the freshly produced stardust.
description: accepted for publication by Earth, Planets & Space
Kwere Kwere: A Story of a Resilient Inner City Neighborhood in Johannesburg, South Africa
Creators: name: Winkler, Tanja
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Neighbourhood change in Hillbrow is not concomitant with linear processes of urban decline and economic resurgence. Instead, change is shaped by the history, politics and economics of the local context, in addition to the activities of local actors. Despite severe physical decay, a history of redlining, and limited public sector support, Hillbrow remains a resilient port-of-entry neighbourhood to Johannesburg for many who desire to engage in local and transnational economies.
Building Assets and Economic Independence Through Individual Development Accounts
Creators: name: Rist, Carl
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1998

description: Americans of most economic classes are experiencing difficulty in climbing the economic ladder. Half of them have no, negligible, or negative investable assets, just as the price of entry into the economic mainstream — for example, the cost of purchasing a house, obtaining an adequate education, or starting a business — is increasing. At the same time, sweeping welfare reform legislation is challenging states to help millions of families become self-sufficient. Individual Development Accounts are a new policy tool directed toward enabling struggling families to build assets and achieve economic well-being.
title: Sharing (Mis)information: A Social Network Analysis of Vaccine-related URLs on Twitter during COVID-19
Creators: name: Wang, Fan
Publisher: name: Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program
Year: 2022

description: Collecting 4,435 tweets with the hashtag vaccine from December 11 to December 14, 2020, this study investigates the main web domains people share on Twitter when talking about the COVID19 vaccine. Drawing a bipartite network graph with NodeXL Pro, the researcher applied a social network analysis and identified 29 of the most shared websites. The study found two misinformation websites attracting more sharing behaviors than some news agencies, such as usatoday.com and vox.com, and explored how users used the contents from the websites within their tweets. The findings provide insights on misinformation identification and management during a public health crisis.
A test for superior predictive ability
Creators: name: Hansen, Peter Reinhard
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: We propose a new test for superior predictive ability. The new test compares favorably to the reality check (RC) for data snooping, because it is more powerful and less sensitive to poor and irrelevant alternatives. The improvements are achieved by two modifications of the RC. We use a studentized test statistic that reduces the influence of erratic forecasts and invoke a sample-dependent null distribution. The advantages of the new test are confirmed by Monte Carlo experiments and an empirical exercise in which we compare a large number of regression-based forecasts of annual U.S. inflation to a simple random-walk forecast. The random-walk forecast is found to be inferior to regression-based forecasts and, interestingly, the best sample performance is achieved by models that have a Phillips curve structure.
Boosting Higgs CP properties via VH Production at the Large Hadron Collider
Creators: name: Godbole, Rohini
name: Miller, David J.
name: Mohan, Kirtimaan
name: White, Chris D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider ZH and WH production at the Large Hadron Collider, where the Higgs decays to a bb pair. We use jet substructure techniques to reconstruct the Higgs boson and construct angular observables involving leptonic decay products of the vector bosons. These efficiently discriminate between the tensor structure of the HVV vertex expected in the Standard Model and that arising from possible new physics, as quantified by higher dimensional operators. This can then be used to examine the CP nature of the Higgs as well as CP mixing effects in the HZZ and HWW vertices separately.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures. v2: two references added and typo corrected
title: Philip Corder, The Defences of the Roman Fort at Malton
Creators: name: Fabricius, Ernst
Publisher: name: University Library Heidelberg
Year: 2016

description: Rezension zu: Philip Corder, The Defences of the Roman Fort at Malton. With contributions by H. Mattingly and M. R. Hüll, published by the Roman Antiquities Committee of the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Malton Yorks (1930). 116 S., 47 Abb., zum Teil auf Tafeln, 5 Pläne.
Planner's Digest: Traditional Urbanism Reconsidered: The 1999 Weiss Urban Livability Symposium
Creators: name: Bohl, Charles C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1999

description: It would be impossible to discuss urban livability without confronting the concept of urbanism - its many, varied forms, historical basis, aesthetic qualities, functional performance, and urban lifestyles. The 1999 Weiss Symposium at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill campus presents a unique end-of-the-century opportunity to reflect on traditional urbanism, and to ponder the future of urbanism in a world where the importance of local communities and a sense of place are increasingly challenged by technological advances, globalism, and the commodification of urban places. Presenters and participants will consider and debate the contemporary relevance of traditional urban forms as more sustainable, livable alternatives in an age of sprawl.
Systematic Analysis of Crystalline Phases in Bosonic Lattice Models with Algebraically Decaying Density-Density Interactions
Creators: name: Koziol, J. A.
name: Duft, A.
name: Morigi, G.
name: Schmidt, K. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a general approach to analyse diagonal ordering patterns in bosonic lattice models with algebraically decaying density-density interactions on arbitrary lattices. The key idea is a systematic search for the energetically best order on all unit cells of the lattice up to a given extent. Using resummed couplings we evaluate the energy of the ordering patterns in the thermodynamic limit using finite unit cells. We apply the proposed approach to the atomic limit of the extended Bose-Hubbard model on the triangular lattice at fillings $f=1/2$ and $f=1$. We investigate the ground-state properties of the antiferromagnetic long-range Ising model on the triangular lattice and determine a six-fold degenerate plain-stripe phase to be the ground state for finite decay exponents. We also probe the classical limit of the Fendley-Sengupta-Sachdev model describing Rydberg atom arrays. We focus on arrangements where the atoms are placed on the sites or links of the Kagome lattice. \changed{Our method provides a general framework to treat cristalline structures resulting from long-range interactions.
description: 35 pages, 11 figures
Statistical physics of isotropic-genesis nematic elastomers: I. Structure and correlations at high temperatures
Creators: name: Lu, Bing-Sui
name: Ye, Fangfu
name: Xing, Xiangjun
name: Goldbart, Paul M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Isotropic-genesis nematic elastomers (IGNEs) are liquid crystalline polymers (LCPs) that have been randomly, permanently cross-linked in the high-temperature state so as to form an equilibrium random solid. Thus, instead of being free to diffuse throughout the entire volume, as they would be in the liquid state, the constituent LCPs in an IGNE are mobile only over a finite length-scale controlled by the density of cross-links. We address the effects that such network-induced localization have on the liquid-crystalline characteristics of an IGNE, as probed via measurements made at high temperatures. In contrast with the case of uncross-linked LCPs, for IGNEs these characteristics are determined not only by thermal fluctuations but also by the quenched disorder associated with the cross-link constraints. To study IGNEs, we consider a microscopic model of dimer nematogens in which the dimers interact via orientation-dependent excluded volume forces. The dimers are, furthermore, randomly, permanently cross-linked via short Hookean springs, the statistics of which we model by means of a Deam-Edwards type of distribution. We show that at length-scales larger than the size of the nematogens this approach leads to a recently proposed phenomenological Landau theory of IGNEs [Lu et al., Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 257803 (2012)], and hence predicts a regime of short-ranged oscillatory spatial correlations in the nematic alignment, of both thermal and glassy types. In addition, we consider two alternative microscopic models of IGNEs: (i) a wormlike chain model of IGNEs that are formed via the cross-linking of side-chain LCPs; and (ii) a jointed chain model of IGNEs that are formed via the cross-linking of main-chain LCPs. At large length-scales, both of these models give rise to liquid-crystalline characteristics that are qualitatively in line with those predicted by the dimer-and-springs model.
description: 33 pages, 6 figures, 6 appendices
Aizoon
Creators: name: Becherer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1956
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: S. Aizoon X Cotyledon Cat. 159 und 426. l^Chaux de Fenestra lob Finhaut (J.);Emosson (Coquoz). - 3a:Engeloch am Simplon (Exk. Soc. Murith. 1925);Laggintal beim Bielti und unterhalb (Becherer 1939).
description: Published as part of Becherer, 1956, Florae Vallesiacae Supplementum, pp. 1-556 in Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 71 on pages 1-556
Higher moments of the net-charge multiplicity distributions at RHIC energies in STAR
Creators: name: Sahoo, Nihar Ranjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the higher order moments of the net-charge multiplicity distributions for the Au+Au collisions at \sNN = 7.7, 11.5, 19.6, 27, 39, 62.4 and 200 GeV in the STAR experiment at the Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collider (RHIC). The energy and centrality dependence of higher moments and their products (such as $σ^2/M$, $Sσ$ and $κσ^{2}$) are presented. The data are also compared to Poisson expectations and Hadron Resonance Gas model calculations.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, proceedings of International symposium on multiparticle dynamics 2012 (ISMD2012)
The natural history of peanut allergy
Creators: name: Conover-Walker, Mary Kay
name: Skolnick, Helen S.
name: Sampson, Hugh A.
name: Burks, A. Wesley
name: Barnes Koerner, Celide
name: Woods, Robert A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001

description: Background: It has traditionally been assumed that peanut allergy is rarely outgrown. Objective: The goal of this study was to determine the number of children with peanut allergy who become tolerant of peanut. Methods: Patients aged 4 to 20 years with a diagnosis of peanut allergy were evaluated by questionnaire, skin testing, and a quantitative antibody fluorescent-enzyme immunoassay. Patients who had been reaction free in the past year and had a peanut IgE (PN-IgE) level less than 20 kilounits of antibody per liter (kUA/L) were offered an open or double-blind, placebo-controlled peanut challenge. Results: A total of 223 patients were evaluated, and of those, 85 (PN-IgE less than 0.35-20.4 kUA/L [median 1.42 kUA/L]) participated in an oral peanut challenge. Forty-eight (21.5%) patients had negative challenge results and were believed to have outgrown their peanut allergy (aged 4-17.5 years [median 6 years]; PN-IgE less than 0.35-20.4 kUA/L [median 0.69 kUA/L]). Thirty-seven failed the challenge (aged 4-13 years [median 6.5 years]; RAST less than 0.35-18.2 kUA/L [median 2.06 kUA/L]). Forty-one patients with PN-IgE levels less than 20 kUA/L declined to undergo challenge, and 97 were not eligible for challenge because their PN-IgE levels were greater than 20 kUA/L or they had had a recent reaction. Sixty-seven percent of patients with PN-IgE levels less than 2 kUA/L and 61% with levels less than 5 kUA/L had negative challenge results. Of those who underwent challenge, PN-IgE levels for those who passed versus those who failed were different at the time of challenge (P = .009), but not at the time of diagnosis (P = .25). Conclusion: This study demonstrates that peanut allergy is outgrown in about 21.5% of patients. Patients with low PN-IgE levels should be offered a peanut challenge in a medical setting to demonstrate whether they can now tolerate peanuts.
Universities and Community Development: Three Case Studies from North Carolina
Creators: name: Heard, Isaac, Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1993

description: Universities and colleges can influence the planning and economic development of their host communities through a number of vehicles. They can become partners with the municipality in which they reside, act independently through a for-profit agent, or act through a not-for-profit agent such as a community development corporation (CDC). Where there is an established community bordering on the campus, the university is very likely to participate in a community-based development corporation. This article gives a brief overview of some aspects of community economic development efforts that are associated with various universities. Particular emphasis is placed on the outcomes of such efforts that are associated with three schools in Mecklenburg County - the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Davidson College and Johnson C. Smith University.
An Effective Potential Theory for Transport Coefficients Across Coupling Regimes
Creators: name: Baalrud, Scott D.
name: Daligault, Jerome
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A plasma transport theory that spans weak to strong coupling is developed from a binary collision picture, but where the interaction potential is taken to be an effective potential that includes correlation effects and screening self-consistently. This physically motivated approach provides a practical model for evaluating transport coefficients across coupling regimes. The theory is shown to compare well with classical molecular dynamics simulations of temperature relaxation in electron-ion plasmas, as well as simulations and experiments of self-diffusion in one component plasmas. The approach is versatile and can be applied to other transport coefficients as well.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures, submitted 2013
Automatic case acquisition from texts for process-oriented case-based reasoning
Creators: name: Dufour-Lussier, Valmi
name: Ber, Florence Le
name: Lieber, Jean
name: Nauer, Emmanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This paper introduces a method for the automatic acquisition of a rich case representation from free text for process-oriented case-based reasoning. Case engineering is among the most complicated and costly tasks in implementing a case-based reasoning system. This is especially so for process-oriented case-based reasoning, where more expressive case representations are generally used and, in our opinion, actually required for satisfactory case adaptation. In this context, the ability to acquire cases automatically from procedural texts is a major step forward in order to reason on processes. We therefore detail a methodology that makes case acquisition from processes described as free text possible, with special attention given to assembly instruction texts. This methodology extends the techniques we used to extract actions from cooking recipes. We argue that techniques taken from natural language processing are required for this task, and that they give satisfactory results. An evaluation based on our implemented prototype extracting workflows from recipe texts is provided.
description: Sous presse, publication pr\'evue en 2013
What is on Tap? The Role of Spin in Compact Objects and Relativistic Jets
Creators: name: King, Ashley L.
name: Miller, Jon M.
name: Gultekin, Kayhan
name: Walton, Dominic J.
name: Fabian, Andrew C.
name: Reynolds, Christopher S.
name: Nandra, Paul
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We examine the role of spin in launching jets from compact objects across the mass scale. Our work includes a total of 37 Seyferts, 11 stellar-mass black holes, and 13 neutron stars. We find that when the Seyfert reflection lines are modeled with Gaussian line features (a crude proxy for inner disk radius and therefore spin), only a slight inverse correlation is found between the Doppler-corrected radio luminosity at 5 GHz (a proxy for jet power) and line width. When the Seyfert reflection features are fit with relativistically-blurred disk reflection models that measure spin, there is a tentative positive correlation between the Doppler-corrected radio luminosity and the spin measurement. Further, when we include stellar-mass black holes in the sample, to examine the effects across the mass scale, we find a slightly stronger correlation with radio luminosity per unit mass and spin, at a marginal significance (2.3 sigma confidence level). Finally, when we include neutron stars, in order to probe lower spin values, we find a positive correlation (3.3 sigma confidence level) between radio luminosity per unit mass and spin. Although tentative, these results suggest that spin may have a role in determining the jet luminosity. In addition, we find a slightly more significant correlation (4.4 sigma confidence level) between radio luminosity per Bolometric luminosity and spin, using our entire sample of black holes and neutrons stars. Again, although tentative, these relations point to the possibility that the mass accretion rate, i.e. Bolometric luminosity, is also important in determining the jet luminosity, in addition to spin. Our analysis suggests that mass accretion rate and disk or coronal magnetic field strength may be the "throttle" in these compact systems, to which the Eddington limit and spin may set the maximum jet luminosity that can be achieved.
description: 14 pages, 13 Figures, ApJ Accepted
Non-Gaussianity and CMB aberration and Doppler
Creators: name: Catena, Riccardo
name: Liguori, Michele
name: Notari, Alessio
name: Renzi, Alessandro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The peculiar motion of an observer with respect to the CMB rest frame induces a deflection in the arrival direction of the observed photons (also known as CMB aberration) and a Doppler shift in the measured photon frequencies. As a consequence, aberration and Doppler effects induce non trivial correlations between the harmonic coefficients of the observed CMB temperature maps. In this paper we investigate whether these correlations generate a bias on Non-Gaussianity estimators $f_{NL}$. We perform this analysis simulating a large number of temperature maps with Planck-like resolution (lmax $= 2000$) as different realizations of the same cosmological fiducial model (WMAP7yr). We then add to these maps aberration and Doppler effects employing a modified version of the HEALPix code. We finally evaluate a generalization of the Komatsu, Spergel and Wandelt Non-Gaussianity estimator for all the simulated maps, both when peculiar velocity effects have been considered and when these phenomena have been neglected. Using the value $v/c=1.23 \times 10^{-3}$ for our peculiar velocity, we found that the aberration/Doppler induced Non-Gaussian signal is at most of about half of the cosmic variance $σ$ for $f_{NL}$ both in a full-sky and in a cut-sky experimental configuration, for local, equilateral and orthogonal estimators. We conclude therefore that when estimating $f_{NL}$ it is safe to ignore aberration and Doppler effects {\it if} the primordial map is already Gaussian. More work is necessary however to assess whether a map which contains Non-Gaussianity can be significantly distorted by a peculiar velocity.
description: 13 pages, 6 figures
Sex differences in lower urinary tract biology and physiology
Creators: name: Sun, Daniel
name: Chai, Toby
name: Baker, Dylan
name: Wolfe, Alan J
name: Popiel, Patrick
name: Parker-Autry, Candace
name: Kuchel, George
name: Amundsen, Cindy L
name: Abelson, Benjamin
name: Close, Clare
name: Palmer, Mary H
name: Damaser, Margot S
name: Nebel, Rebecca A
name: Que, Lauren
name: Fraser, Matthew O
name: DiSanto, Michael
name: Kielb, Stephanie J
name: Mueller, Elizabeth R
Publisher: name: BioMed Central
Year: 2018

description: Abstract
              Females and males differ significantly in gross anatomy and physiology of the lower urinary tract, and these differences are commonly discussed in the medical and scientific literature. However, less attention is dedicated to investigating the varied development, function, and biology between females and males on a cellular level. Recognizing that cell biology is not uniform, especially in the lower urinary tract of females and males, is crucial for providing context and relevance for diverse fields of biomedical investigation. This review serves to characterize the current understanding of biological sex differences between female and male lower urinary tracts, while identifying areas for future research. First, the differences in overall cell populations are discussed in the detrusor smooth muscle, urothelium, and trigone. Second, the urethra is discussed, including anatomic discussions of the female and male urethra followed by discussions of cellular differences in the urothelial and muscular layers. The pelvic floor is then reviewed, followed by an examination of the sex differences in hormonal regulation, the urinary tract microbiome, and the reticuloendothelial system. Understanding the complex and dynamic development, anatomy, and physiology of the lower urinary tract should be contextualized by the sex differences described in this review.
A sufficient condition for congruency of orbits of Lie groups and some applications
Creators: name: Kubo, Akira
name: Tamaru, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 57S20 (Primary) 53C40, 53C35 (Secondary)

description: We give a sufficient condition for isometric actions to have the congruency of orbits, that is, all orbits are isometrically congruent to each other. As applications, we give simple and unified proofs for some known congruence results, and also provide new examples of isometric actions on symmetric spaces of noncompact type which have the congruency of orbits.
description: 6 pages