cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Treatment Selection in Borderline Personality Disorder
Creators: name: Keefe, John
name: DeRubeis, Robert
name: McMain, Shelley
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: borderline personality disorder
subject: BPD
subject: clinical trial
subject: moderators
subject: personality disorder
subject: psychiatry
subject: psychotherapy
subject: RCT
subject: treatment selection

description: Comprehensive moderator analysis and estimation of benefit from treatment selection based on combined moderators, from a trial comparing dialectical-behavioral therapy and good psychodynamic psychiatric management for borderline personality disorder
MS Gr. class. c. 6 1326
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1506 col. 9. Philodemus, De rhetorica 3
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
Nonconvex Nonsmooth Low-Rank Minimization via Iteratively Reweighted Nuclear Norm
Creators: name: Lu, Canyi
name: Tang, Jinhui
name: Yan, Shuicheng
name: Lin, Zhouchen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The nuclear norm is widely used as a convex surrogate of the rank function in compressive sensing for low rank matrix recovery with its applications in image recovery and signal processing. However, solving the nuclear norm based relaxed convex problem usually leads to a suboptimal solution of the original rank minimization problem. In this paper, we propose to perform a family of nonconvex surrogates of $L_0$-norm on the singular values of a matrix to approximate the rank function. This leads to a nonconvex nonsmooth minimization problem. Then we propose to solve the problem by Iteratively Reweighted Nuclear Norm (IRNN) algorithm. IRNN iteratively solves a Weighted Singular Value Thresholding (WSVT) problem, which has a closed form solution due to the special properties of the nonconvex surrogate functions. We also extend IRNN to solve the nonconvex problem with two or more blocks of variables. In theory, we prove that IRNN decreases the objective function value monotonically, and any limit point is a stationary point. Extensive experiments on both synthesized data and real images demonstrate that IRNN enhances the low-rank matrix recovery compared with state-of-the-art convex algorithms.
Spatial Trends in Opiate Overdose Death in North Carolina: 1999-2015
Creators: name: Cordes, John
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The United States has experienced a serious and growing opiate epidemic over the past
20 years. North Carolina has been identified as a state of particular concern along with other
Southern and Appalachian states. This study characterizes the opiate epidemic in North Carolina
along three axes: space, time, and drug type. Using data from the North Carolina State Center for
Health Statistics, I calculated county-level mortality rates for prescription opioids, methadone,
synthetic opioids, and heroin for each year from 1999 to 2015. Then I performed mean center,
cluster, and spatial regression analyses to identify areas of high and low mortality rates and
associated socioeconomic correlates. My results show that mortality due to prescription opioids
in North Carolina increased by 612 percent and heroin increased by 800 percent over the study
period. Average mortality rates from prescription opioids were highest in the western,
Appalachian counties, while the highest rates for heroin mortality occurred in urban counties
along the Piedmont Crescent and in Wilmington. Mean center analysis by year showed
prescription mortality rates were pulled to the west during the entire study period with a notable
trend east in 2014 and 2015. Heroin mortality rate mean centers were consistently east of the
unweighted mean center, although they also showed a higher variance. Discrete Poisson-based
cluster models in SaTScan identified high clusters of mortality rates for both drug types in
similar areas as the descriptive analysis, however it also determined intraregional hotspots
including Richmond and Carteret counties for prescription opioid mortality. Regression models
for average mortality rate by county for the entire study period for prescription opioids and
heroin produced R squared values of 0.62 and 0.36 respectively. Prescription opioid mortality
increased with percent with disability and decreased with percent Black and percent Hispanic.
Heroin mortality increased with urbanity and decreased with percent holding a college degree.
This study confirms trends in the opiate epidemic with high rates of prescription opioid mortality
among White, rural, Appalachian counties and heroin mortality in urban areas. Policymakers and
intervention workers can use these findings to develop appropriate measures to combat this
epidemic and target their work based on place and drug type.
Laboulbenia hyalopus Spegazzini, Anales
Creators: name: Rossi, Walter
name: Leonardi, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Arthropoda
Insecta
Hemiptera
Pseudococcidae
Laboulbenia
Laboulbenia hyalopus

description: Laboulbenia hyalopus Spegazzini, Anales del Museo Nacional de Historia Natural de Buenos Aires 26: 503, 1915.
 Distribution. Described on Styphlomerus equestris (Dejean) (Coleoptera, Carabidae) from Ethiopia, subsequently reported from Tunisia on Brachynus barbarus Lucas and from Madagascar on Styphlomerus quadrimaculatus (Dejean) (Balazuc 1982).
 New record from Sierra Leone. Northern Province, Bumbuna, 13.XI.1987, W. Rossi, on the elytra of Styphlomerus sp.
 Remarks. The record from Tunisia needs confirmation: the thalli are said to be somewhat different from the type in having a hyaline cell II and numerous black branches (Colla 1926).
description: Published as part of Rossi, Walter & Leonardi, Marco, 2018, New species and new records of Laboulbeniales (Ascomycota) from Sierra Leone, pp. 91-116 in Phytotaxa 358 (2) on page 107, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.358.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13705797
MS Gr. class. c. 6 1327
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1506 col. 10. Philodemus, De rhetorica 3
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
Rickia taiwanensis Terada, Transations
Creators: name: Rossi, Walter
name: Leonardi, Marco
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Fungi
Ascomycota
Laboulbeniomycetes
Laboulbeniales
Laboulbeniaceae
Rickia
Rickia taiwanensis

description: Rickia taiwanensis Terada, Transations of the Mycological Society of Japan 19: 62, 1978.
 Distribution. This fungus was described on Tritoma fasciata Chûjô (Erotylidae) from Taiwan and subsequently reported from Japan on Spondotriplax inornata Shibata, from Papua New Guinea on Neothallis xanthosticta (Crotch), and from Indonesia on an unidentified Erotylidae (Weir 1998).
 New record from Sierra Leone. Northern Province, between the villages of Sinikoro and Kondembaia in the Loma Mts. area, 3.XII.1984, W. Rossi, on a few specimens of Neomycotretus anthracinus Gorham (Erotylidaeae).
 Remarks. The thalli from Sierra Leone do not differ from those reported from Asia and Oceania despite the distance from previous records and the different host.
 Stichomyces vesiculifer Thaxter, Memoirs of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences 16: 249, 1931 (Figures 5d and 5e)
 Known distribution. Described on Sephedophilus obesus from Cameroon and never reported since.
 New records from Sierra Leone. Southern Province, Tiwai Island, 8–10.I.1989, W. Rossi, on Sepedophilus sp. Western Area, base of Picket Hill, 1.XI.1995, W. Rossi, relatively abundant on various specimens of Sepedophilus sp. occurring on lignicolous mushrooms.
 Remarks. The length from the foot to the perithecial apex of the thalli from Sierra Leone ranges from 140 to 370 μm and the distinguishing vesicular cells associated with the branches of the appendage can be very numerous or entirely absent.
 Tavares (1985) transferred Stichomyces vesiculifer to the genus Corethromyces Thaxt. However, the numerous and quite variable thalli collected in Sierra Leone do not support this move. In mature specimens cell VII is large (sometimes larger than cell VI), bringing the perithecium in an upright position and displacing laterally the primary appendage (Figure 5d), but in a few thalli cell II bears two perithecia symmetrically on opposite sides; in these fungi the appendage is erect and indistinguishable from the receptacle (Figure 3e). These two latter features are considered distinguishing characters of the genus Stichomyces.
 Both Thaxter (1931, p. 247) and Tavares (1985, p. 322) pointed out that the Corethromyces and Stichomyces are closely related genera; this topic deserves a careful review.
description: Published as part of Rossi, Walter & Leonardi, Marco, 2018, New species and new records of Laboulbeniales (Ascomycota) from Sierra Leone, pp. 91-116 in Phytotaxa 358 (2) on page 110, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.358.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13705797
Population Synthesis of Isolated Neutron Stars with magneto-rotational evolution II: from radio-pulsars to magnetars
Creators: name: Gullón, M.
name: Pons, J. A.
name: Miralles, J. A.
name: Viganò, D.
name: Rea, N.
name: Perna, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Population synthesis studies constitute a powerful method to reconstruct the birth distribution of periods and magnetic fields of the pulsar population. When this method is applied to populations in different wavelengths, it can break the degeneracy in the inferred properties of initial distributions that arises from single-band studies. In this context, we extend previous works to include $X$-ray thermal emitting pulsars within the same evolutionary model as radio-pulsars. We find that the cumulative distribution of the number of X-ray pulsars can be well reproduced by several models that, simultaneously, reproduce the characteristics of the radio-pulsar distribution. However, even considering the most favourable magneto-thermal evolution models with fast field decay, log-normal distributions of the initial magnetic field over-predict the number of visible sources with periods longer than 12 s. We then show that the problem can be solved with different distributions of magnetic field, such as a truncated log-normal distribution, or a binormal distribution with two distinct populations. We use the observational lack of isolated NSs with spin periods P>12 s to establish an upper limit to the fraction of magnetars born with B > 10^{15} G (less than 1\%). As future detections keep increasing the magnetar and high-B pulsar statistics, our approach can be used to establish a severe constraint on the maximum magnetic field at birth of NSs.
description: 12 pages, 11 figures, 5 tables
Library Carpentries: Introduction to R
Creators: name: Stewart, Sarah
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: TheCarpentries, LibraryCarpentry, R, coding, software, data analysis, data cleaning, data visualisation, introduction to R

description: Presented as part of the Bodleian Libraries Library Carpentry training series in Nov. 2022. A two-hour introduction to the basic features of R, including basic syntax, uploading and reading data, and an introduction to data cleaning and transformation using the package dplyr and creating a simple bar chart using ggplot2.  Note that this presentation does not include the live coding parts of the session and is a condensed version of the Alpha version lesson on Introduction to R found at Introduction to R (librarycarpentry.org)
description: Suitable for complete beginners with little to no R experience.
The Effects of a Baseball Throwing Velocity Improvement Program on Shoulder Range of Motion
Creators: name: Rodrigo, Corey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Limited glenohumeral range of motion of the throwing shoulder in baseball players has been shown
to be a risk for shoulder and elbow injury. Although there are many established programs that have
been shown to improve glenohumeral range of motion, no program has been shown to effectively
improve throwing velocity and range of motion. Identifying a throwing program that can improve
range of motion could help to decrease the risk of shoulder injury in a way that is easily marketed
to a performance-minded participant. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to determine the
extent to which the Velocity Plus Throwing Program could alter shoulder range of motion. 32 youth
baseball players between the ages of 8-17 years old completed the study; 12 in the intervention
group and 20 in the control group. The participants underwent range of motion testing to measure
dominant internal rotation (IR), dominant external rotation (ER), dominant total arc of motion
(TAM), glenohumeral internal rotation deficit (GIRD), external rotation gain (ERG), and total arc
of motion difference (TAMD). Participants in the intervention group demonstrated a significant
TAM decrease of 10.1 ± 4.5 degrees (t(30):0.95, p=0.03). No significant difference was found with
dominant IR, dominant ER, GIRD, ERG, or TAMD. Further, no significant change in velocity resulted
from the intervention, with a mean of increase of 1.2 ± 1.1 MPH (t(30):­-1.09, p=0.29). Future
research should focus on a larger sample size to increase the power of the findings and identify
aneffective performance program that can be utilized to improve athletic performance and help
prevent injury.
An iterative method to reconstruct the refractive index of a medium from time-of-flight measurements
Creators: name: Schroeder, Udo
name: Schuster, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 45G10, 53A35, 58C35, 65R20, 65R32

description: The article deals with a classical inverse problem: the computation of the refractive index of a medium from ultrasound time-of-flight (TOF) measurements. This problem is very popular in seismics but also for tomographic problems in inhomogeneous media. For example ultrasound vector field tomography needs a priori knowledge of the sound speed. According to Fermat's principle ultrasound signals travel along geodesic curves of a Riemannian metric which is associated with the refractive index. The inverse problem thus consists of determining the index of refraction from integrals along geodesics curves associated with the integrand leading to a nonlinear problem. In this article we describe a numerical solver for this problem scheme based on an iterative minimization method for an appropriate Tikhonov functional. The outcome of the method is a stable approximation of the sought index of refraction as well as a corresponding set of geodesic curves. We prove some analytical convergence results for this method and demonstrate its performance by means of several numerical experiments. Another novelty in this article is the explicit representation of the backprojection operator for the ray transform in Riemannian geometry and its numerical realization relying on a corresponding phase function that is determined by the metric. This gives a natural extension of the conventional backprojection from 2D computerized tomography to inhomogeneous geometries.
description: 35 pages, 15 (colored) figures
Booklet de recomendaciones políticas para la transición ecológica del cultivo del olivar
Creators: name: Gallego, Jose Lietor
name: Ruiz, Roberto García
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Recomendaciones políticas
Olivar
Transición ecológica

description: Following the results obtained by SUSTAINOLIVE research, a catalog of recommendations was designed with the aim of developing policies that stimulate and enhance sustainable management practices in olive groves in the short and medium term.
Proton-Coupled Electron Transfer Processes in Non-Aqueous Systems: Spectroscopic Probes and Electrochemical Studies
Creators: name: Howland, William, III
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: For all the technological sophistication of modern chemistry, we remain dependent on a
finite stockpile of high-energy and synthetically-useful chemicals. These reserves were generated
over the course of millennia by ancient plants and algae and passed down to us in the form of
petroleum, coal, and natural gas reserves. As of 2014, 80% of global energy production was from
fossil fuel consumption,1 and petroleum and natural gas exploitation together accounted for
effectively all of the plastic and commodity chemical industries’ feedstock supplies. So, why is
our economy built on the consumption of non-renewable fossil fuel reserves? Compared to
photosynthetic organisms, photocatalysis is underdeveloped in our chemical technology. The
ability to convert carbon dioxide and water into fine chemicals such as glucose with the energy
of sunlight using fully synthetic systems remains a challenge. If we are to become self-sufficient
and stop relying on our chemical inheritance, understanding such chemical transformations is
paramount. Just as one can only engineer an efficient engine with a solid foundation in classical
physics, one can only design molecular machinery as sophisticated as that found in chloroplasts
with an understanding of the mechanics of charge transfer.
La necessit� di supporto degli esordienti nella professione. Un?indagine del CROAS della Lombardia - Gruppo di lavoro Supervisori di tirocinio.
Creators: name: Bertotti, Teresa Francesca
name: Spini, Luigia
Publisher: name: SOCISS  Universit� di Trento
Year: 2019

description: I primi anni di esercizio della professione rappresentano una fase affascinate e delicata per i giovani assistenti sociali. � il momento atteso, in cui gli apprendimenti sviluppati negli anni di studio e tirocinio sono messo alla prova dei fatti, in cui l?esordiente nella professione si confronta con i contesti organizzativi concreti, con i loro vincoli e le risorse. � una fase che corrisponde anche ad un cambiamento esistenziale cruciale, che porta a compiere un passaggio decisivo nella vita adulta e nella conquista dell?autonomia. ... Il paper presenta il metodo e i risultati dell?indagine. Data la concomitanza degli interessi, nell?indagine sono stati coinvolti sia gli esordienti nella professione sia i responsabili di servizio. Nel periodo tra dicembre e febbraio 2018 sono stati realizzati due focus group con 16 soggetti. I risultati mettono in evidenza: 1) una differenza nelle percezioni di esordienti e responsabili, 2) l?interesse per la costituzione di un gruppo di supporto con alcune avvertenze 3) la necessit� di tenere in considerazione la precariet� dei contesti lavorativi in cui si trovano i giovani assistenti sociali
Goldstone mode stochastization in quantum Hall ferromagnet
Creators: name: Larionov, A. V.
name: Kulik, L. V.
name: Dickmann, S.
name: Kukushkin, I. V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Experimental and theoretical studies of the coherent spin dynamics of two-dimensional GaAs/AlGaAs electron gas were performed. The system in the quantum Hall ferromagnet state exhibits a spin relaxation mechanism that is determined by many-particle Coulomb interactions. In addition to the spin exciton with changes in the spin quantum numbers of $δS\!=\!δS_z \!=\!-1$, the quantum Hall ferromagnet supports a Goldstone spin exciton that changes the spin quantum numbers to $δS\!=\!0$ and $δS_z\!=\!-1$, which corresponds to a coherent spin rotation of the entire electron system to a certain angle. The Goldstone spin exciton decays through a specific relaxation mechanism that is unlike any other collective spin state.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
MS Gr. class. c. 6 1328
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1506 col. 11. Philodemus, De rhetorica 3
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
Análisis cuantitativo del uso de los tiempos verbales en estudiantes de nivel intermedio y avanzado de UNC
Creators: name: Lightfoot, Kaitlyn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: En esta investigación, se examina cuantitativamente la adquisición y el uso de dos formas de expresar el futuro: el futuro perifrástico (FP) del tipo, voy a estudiar, y el futuro morfológico (FM), estudiaré, tanto en forma oral como escrita. Los resultados de los estudios previos muestran que, para los hablantes nativos del español, es más común usar el FP. Además, usan el (FP) más en forma oral que escrita. Para la forma escrita, prefieren el FM. Los datos de este estudio provienen de entrevistas grabadas y cuestionarios escritos realizados a dos grupos de estudiantes de la Universidad de Carolina del Norte (UNC). Un grupo se compone de un total de ocho estudiantes de nivel avanzado que han estudiado en Sevilla, España, por un mínimo de cuatro meses. El otro está conformado por 38 estudiantes de nivel intermedio que no han tenido la oportunidad de estudiar en el extranjero. Ningún estudiante de ambos grupos es hablante nativo del español o estudiante de herencia (heritage student). Investigamos tres cosas específicas: si los estudiantes que han estudiado en Sevilla por cuatro meses usan los tiempos verbales del futuro en modo similar a hablantes nativos, si los estudiantes de nivel intermedio reflejan los métodos y secuencia utilizados en la enseñanza del español como segunda lengua y, finalmente, si hay un contraste significativo entre los dos grupos. Encontramos que los estudiantes que han estudiado en Sevilla no siempre usan los tiempos verbales del español como lo hace un hablante nativo, que los estudiantes de nivel intermedio sí reflejan los métodos de la enseñanza del español como segunda lengua, y que los estudiantes de nivel intermedio usan el presente y el FM más que los de nivel avanzado y, que estos últimos, utilizan el FP y el presente. Ningún grupo refleja perfectamente el uso de los tiempos verbales del futuro de un hablante nativo del español.
presentation of the article presented at Transport Research Arena conference on 14-17 nov 2022
Creators: name: Giuliano, Romeo
name: Vizzarri, Alessandro
name: Mazzenga, Franco
name: Vegni, Anna Maria
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Adaptable Communication System; ACS; Future Railway Mobile Communication Systems; FRMCS; Communication Bearer

description: R. Giuliano, F. Mazzenga, A. Vizzarri, A.M. Vegni, "Future Communication Systems for Railway: the AB4Rail project in H2020 Shift2Rail Programme", Transport Research Arena (TRA) Conference 14-17nov 2022 *Alessandro Vizzarri (contact author). E-mail address: alessandro.vizzarri@radiolabs.it ABSTRACT In the last few years, the railway community has been working on the replacement of GSM-R technology used within the ERTMS/ETCS system. It is crucial to identify alternative communication technologies able to replace GSM-R guaranteeing the same requirements of QoS/QoE, security, and safety. For this purpose, the two most promising approaches are based on FRMCS and ACS systems. The Eu-Rail JU H2020 AB4Rail project (Alternative Bearer For Rail) aims to investigate the possibility of extending the set of communication bearers that can be integrated into the FRMCS/ACS systems. In this paper, the authors describe the main results obtained in AB4Rail research activities and adopted methodologies. From AB4Rail project investigations, it has emerged that the most promising candidates are: Free Space Optics (FSO) and innovative aerial communication technologies including LEO HTS satellites and HAPS.
Construction and Simulation of a 1 MeV Electron Accelerator for High Precision Beta Decay Studies
Creators: name: Longfellow, Brenden
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Sensitive experiments with low energy neutrons are being used as tests for physics beyond the standard model. A 1 MeV electron accelerator for use as a calibration tool for detectors in high precision neutron beta decay experiments is currently being constructed at Triangle Universities Nuclear Laboratory (TUNL). The adjustable potential allows electrons to be accelerated to energies across the continuous beta decay spectrum, which is an improvement over current calibration methods. In this thesis, the Pelletron charging system employed by the accelerator is described and the results of a high voltage test of the accelerator are reported. Furthermore, magnetic and electric field maps are produced for the accelerator and spectrometer that holds the detectors and electron transport through the accelerator and spectrometer is analyzed using the finite element analysis software COMSOL, showing the validity of the design of the accelerator.
MS Gr. class. c. 6 1329
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1506 col. 12. Philodemus, De rhetorica 3
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
Annihilation of Relativistic Positrons in Single Crystal with production of One Photon
Creators: name: Kalashnikov, Nikolay
name: Mazur, Evgeny
name: Olczak, Andrzej
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: Accelerator Physics (physics.acc-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The energy and momentum conservation laws prohibit positron-electron annihilation in vacuum producing the single photon only. It can produce two photons in vacuum, or the process is possible with a participation of the third body. The situation is different in a single crystal with one of the leptons (e.g. positron) moving in the channeling (or in the quasi-channeling) mode when the transverse motion of a particle is bound or sufficiently uneven. It may increase sharply the probability of the single photon annihilation process.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures
Public Access Data - Updated March 2017
Creators: name: Firestine, Ann
name: Kok, Bethany
name: Catalino, Lahnna
name: Fredrickson, Barbara
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Files added here accompany Fredrickson Kok (2018). Evidence for the Upward Spiral Stands Steady: A Response to Nickerson. Psychological Science.
MS Gr. class. c. 6 1330
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1506 col. 13. Philodemus, De rhetorica 3
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
Very Compact Dense Galaxy Overdensity with δ ~ 130 Identified at z ~ 8: Implications for Early Protocluster and Cluster-Core Formation
Creators: name: Ishigaki, Masafumi
name: Ouchi, Masami
name: Harikane, Yuichi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the first identification of a compact dense galaxy overdensity at $z\sim8$ dubbed A2744z8OD. A2744z8OD consists of eight $Y$-dropout galaxies behind Abell 2744 that is originally pinpointed by Hubble Frontier Fields studies. However, no studies have, so far, derived basic physical quantities of structure formation or made comparisons with theoretical models. We obtain a homogeneous sample of dropout galaxies at $z\sim8$ from eight field data of Hubble legacy images that are as deep as the A2744z8OD data. Using the sample, we find that a galaxy surface overdensity value of A2744z8OD is very high $δ\simeq130$, where $δ$ is defined by an overdensity in a small circle of $6"$ ($\simeq30$ physical kpc) radius. Because there is no such a large $δ$ value reported for high-$z$ overdensities to date, A2744z8OD is a system clearly different from those found in previous high-$z$ overdensity studies. In the galaxy+structure formation models of Henriques et al. (2015), there exist a very similar overdensity, Modelz8OD, that is made of eight model dropout galaxies at $z\sim8$ in a $6"$-radius circle. Modelz8OD is a progenitor of a today's $10^{14}M_\odot$ cluster, and more than a half of the seven Modelz8OD galaxies are merged into the brightest cluster galaxy (BCG) of the cluster. If Modelz8OD is a counterpart of A2744z8OD, the models suggest that A2744z8OD would be a part of a forming cluster core of a today's $10^{14}M_\odot$ cluster that started star formation at $z>12$.
description: 10 pages, 11 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ
PEDAGOGICAL FOUNDATION OF TRAINING ENGLISH LANGUAGE TEACHERS OF HIGHER EDUCATION BASED ON INNOVATIVE APPROACHES
Creators: name: Esemuratov, Azizbek
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: The introduction of innovative pedagogical technologies at all educational levels that fully comply with international standards is one of the main tasks facing the country's education system. This article describes some theoretical and methodological aspects of the organization of innovative work of English teachers, analyzes the essence of innovation and innovation, describes the areas for preparing future English teachers for innovation and their psychological and pedagogical conditions. It also discusses innovative methods used in the US education system for teaching foreign languages.
Registered Motion of an Ultrasound Transducer with a 6 Degrees of Freedom Industrial Robot for the Construction of Tissue Displacement Maps
Creators: name: Lee, Stephen A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: In the past, brain injuries were modeled using head acceleration. However, this is only an indirect relation to the brain tissue. We aim to measure brain motion more directly and accurately. New innovation in ultrasound scanning is a vital key to producing accurate models. In this study, we aim to accurately position an ultrasound transducer with six degrees of freedom ABB IRB 120 robot arm. The overall goal of this method is to produce 3D vectorial maps of brain displacement through time (ie 7 dimensions total). This will allow us to characterize the propagation of shear shock waves in the brain and to establish.
Women and Shame: Stories of Recovery from Alcohol Dependence
Creators: name: Lamb, Robin
Publisher: name: University of East London
Year: 2023
Subjects: Shame
Alcohol Dependence
Women

description: Background: Historically women have been underrepresented in alcohol dependence (AD) research, and gender-sensitive treatment is scarce. Extant literature indicates women have specific pathways into AD and recovery, with shame and stigma as key factors, yet there is a paucity of research exploring shame in AD and recovery from women’s perspectives, taking account of their relational and socio-cultural contexts. Aim: This research aimed to explore how shame features in women’s narratives of recovery from AD. Methodology: Taking a critical realist epistemological position, unstructured life story interviews were analysed via narrative analysis to explore how seven women from the UK storied shame in AD and recovery. Findings: Shame followed a common trajectory across participants’ stories, leading up to AD through to recovery. Participants narrated shame as gendered, contributing to a loss of personal control in defining a valued personal identity. Drinking began as a shame-management strategy to feel ‘normal’ but later became a source of shame, compounded by fears of being labelled an ‘alcoholic woman’ constructed within medicalised, disease-based grand narratives of alcohol addiction. Recovery involved reclaiming the self through de-shaming a shame-based identity and developing a positive, non-drinking identity. Positive sobriety narratives offered less-shameful frameworks for sense-making in recovery. By sharing stories and reconstructing their own, participants were able to work through shame, resist pathologising identity labels and internalise esteemed ‘sober’ identities. Conclusions: This novel study reveals the significance of shame in women’s AD and recovery at the intersection of identity, gender and culture. Dominant medicalised narratives of alcohol addiction were revealed as especially stigmatising for women. The need for gender-sensitive treatments and a more social and relational understanding of AD as a response to gender oppressive experiences is highlighted. Implications for clinical practice, future research and policy are considered.
MS Gr. class. c. 6 1331
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1506 col. 14. Philodemus, De rhetorica 3
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
title: A randomized controlled trial of modified reporting of positive urine cultures to reduce inappropriate treatment of asymptomatic bacteriuria in long term care facilities
Creators: name: Rehan, Zahra
Publisher: name: Memorial University of Newfoundland
Year: 2023

description: There is a high rate of inappropriate antibiotic treatment in long-term care facilities, prescribed for asymptomatic bacteriuria (ASB). We conducted a prospective, randomized and unblinded superiority trial to test whether modified reporting of positive urine cultures reduced inappropriate antibiotic treatment without increasing adverse events or mortality. Consecutive positive urine cultures collected from non-catheterized patients from 8 long-term care facilities in St. John’s, NL were randomized in the laboratory between a standard (identification and susceptibility) or modified (without identification and susceptibility) report, between November 2018 and June 2019. The patients were followed for thirty days after the report. The diagnosis of a urinary tract infection (UTI) and ASB were made following standard criteria using prospective chart review. 100 positive urine cultures were included in intention-to-treat analysis and 96 were included in per-protocol analysis. 62/100 (62%) patients were diagnosed with ASB and 38/100 (38%) with UTI. 41/62 (66%) patients with ASB were treated and 35/38 (92%) of patients with UTI were treated. In the modified reporting arm, the lab was called to report the identification and susceptibility in 30/51 (59%) reports. The rate of appropriate treatment (untreated ASB + treated UTI) was higher in the modified report arm compared to the standard report arm: 30/48 (63%) vs. 24/48 (50%), (+13%, RR=1.25, 95% CI (0.88, 1.79). There were 2/51 (3.9%) deaths in the modified arm and 0/49 (0%) deaths in the standard arm. Modified reporting reduced treatment of ASB, but without statistical significance. Modified reporting is a safe method to reduce inappropriate antibiotic treatment in long-term care facilities.
Eye-Movement Evidence for Object-Based Attention in Reading
Creators: name: Liu, Yanping
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: Is attention allocated to only one word or to multiple words at any given time during reading? The experiments reported here addressed this question using a novel paradigm inspired by classic findings on object-based attention. In Experiment 1, participants (N = 18) made lexical decisions about one of two spatially colocated Chinese words or nonwords. Our main finding was that only the attended word’s frequency influenced response times and accuracy. In Experiment 2, participants (N = 30) read target words embedded in two spatially colocated Chinese sentences. Our key finding here was that only target-word frequencies influenced looking times and fixation positions. These results support the hypothesis that words are attended in a strictly serial (and perhaps object-based) manner during reading. The theoretical implications of this conclusion are discussed in relation to models of eye-movement control during reading and the conceptualization of words as visual objects.
Lattice constants and expansivities of gas hydrates from 10K up to the stability limit
Creators: name: Hansen, Thomas C.
name: Falenty, Andrzej
name: Murshed, M. Mangir
name: Kuhs, Werner F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a combination of neutron and synchrotron diffraction the lattice constants and expansivities of hydrogenated and deuterated CH4-, CO2-, Xe- (structure type I) and N2-hydrate (structure type II) from 10 K up to the stability limit under pressure were established. Some important results emerge from our analysis: (1) Despite the larger guest-size of CO2 as compared to methane, CO2- hydrate has the smaller lattice constants at low temperatures which we ascribe to the larger attractive guest-host interaction of the CO2-water system. (2) The expansivity of CO2-hydrate is larger than for CH4-hydrate which leads to larger lattice constants for the former at temperatures above ~ 150 K; this is likely due to the higher motional degrees of freedom of the CO2 guest molecules. (3) The cage filling does not affect significantly the lattice constants in CH4- and CO2-hydrate in contrast to Xe-hydrate for which the effect is quantitatively established. (4) Similar to ice Ih, the deuterated compounds have slightly larger lattice constants for all investigated systems which can be ascribed to the somewhat weaker H-bonding; the isotopic difference is smallest for the Xesystem,in which the large Xe atoms lead to an increase of averaged H-bond distances. (5) Compared to ice Ih the high temperature expansivities are about 50% larger; in contrast to ice Ih, there is no negative thermal expansion at low temperature.
description: Unpublished contribution to the 8th International Conference on Gas Hydrates (ICGH-8), Beijing, China, 28 July - 1 August 2015 (was only available to the conference participants)
Plain language summary of publication: Neurexan relaxes the hyperactivated brain after a stressful situation
Creators: name: Chand, Tara
name: Alizadeh, Sarah
name: Jamalabadi, Hamidreza
name: Herrmann, Luisa
name: Krylova, Marina
name: Surova, Galina
name: van der Meer, Johan
name: Wagner, Gerd
name: Engert, Veronika
name: Walter, Martin
Publisher: name: Heel GmbH
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Central nervous system
subject: Psychiatry (incl. psychotherapy)
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This is a plain language summary of a published peer-reviewed article. It refers to a clinical trial demonstrating effects of the natural medication Neurexan in reducing hypervigilance, a form of hyperactivation in the resting brain after a stressful situation. This summary was not peer-reviewed but it represents the opinions of the authors. For a full list of declarations, including funding and author disclosure statements, please read the full open-access article online.
Neurexan relaxes the hyperactivated brain after a stressful situation
Creators: name: Chand, Tara
name: Alizadeh, Sarah
name: Jamalabadi, Hamidreza
name: Herrmann, Luisa
name: Krylova, Marina
name: Surova, Galina
name: van der Meer, Johan
name: Wagner, Gerd
name: Engert, Veronika
name: Walter, Martin
Publisher: name: Heel GmbH
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biomedical and clinical sciences
subject: Neurosciences
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Central nervous system
subject: Psychiatry (incl. psychotherapy)
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This is a plain language summary of a published peer-reviewed article. It refers to a clinical trial demonstrating effects of the natural medication Neurexan in reducing hypervigilance, a form of hyperactivation in the resting brain after a stressful situation. This summary was not peer-reviewed but it represents the opinions of the authors. For a full list of declarations, including funding and author disclosure statements, please read the full open-access article online.
No Clear Winner: An Analysis of the Reactions of The American Israelite, the Jewish Advocate, and The Jewish Exponent to the Boycott Movement Preceding the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games
Creators: name: Zeldin, Evan Ross
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: This thesis examines the editorial reactions of three Jewish-American newspapers, The American Israelite, The Jewish Advocate, and The Jewish Exponent, to the decision by the American sporting organizations to participate in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. Source material includes editorial articles from when Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933 to the end of 1936, after the conclusion of the Games. An analysis of the three newspapers in question reveals that the editors fought to keep the Games out of Berlin and primarily responded to events in the sporting world concerning the location of the 1936 Olympic Games. The three editors each responded differently to the boycott movement, particularly during the end of the debate. In particular, they challenged Avery Brundage’s interpretation of the Olympic Charter over the idea of “fair play.” The American Olympic team participated in Germany largely due to the maneuvering of Avery Brundage, who desired a promotion to the International Olympic Committee. Brundage was motivated primarily by professional reasons to have the American team participate in Berlin. There was no clear winner of the Games being held in Nazi Germany: All parties involved had some loss as a result of the controversy. The only clear loser was the Olympic ideal, which was irreparably tarnished as a result of Hitler’s influence on the Olympics.
MS Gr. class. c. 6 1332
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1506 col. 15. Philodemus, De rhetorica 3
Drawing by Carlo Orazi
Sleep Deprivation: A Mixed Methods Analysis of Cardiovascular Risk, Sleep Perceptions, and Sleep Behaviors among College Students
Creators: name: Benson, India
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Previous research has shown a correlation between increased levels of inflammatory markers and cardiovascular risk (Danesh et al. 2004). Inflammatory markers are also influenced by an individual’s quality of sleep (Hoevenaar-Blom et al. 2011). These associations are highly important for college students who often experience partial (< 6 hours of sleep each night) or acute (pulling ‘all-nighters’) sleep deprivation. The goals of this research are to 1) investigate how sleep practices affect C-reactive protein (CRP), 2) understand students’ perception of sleep, and 3) examine behaviors preventing optimal sleep. CRP was measured using two dried blood spots collected one week apart, and sleep was assessed over seven days via actigraphy, questionnaire (Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index, Epworth Sleepiness Scale, and Nap Questionnaire), and ethnographic interviews from 27 undergraduate college students at UNC Chapel Hill. The data indicate that: 1) sleep deprivation results in increased CRP levels, and thus, increases individuals’ cardiovascular risk, 2) the perception of sleep is contingent on other school related factors, and 3) homework and studying are the main reported obstacles to sleep. While current research focuses on the sleep behaviors of older individuals, this thesis adds to the current literature by providing a focused analysis on college students ages 17-22 and the impact that short habitual sleep duration may have on their short- and long-term cardiovascular health.
Individual project on theme «Tursiops truncatus» (MOOC: CompTech in biology)
Creators: name: Epimakhova Karina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Данная презентация является результатом реализации индивидуального проекта Епимаховой Карины по теме "Tursiops truncatus" в рамках онлайн курса "Компьютерные технологии в биологии" (автор – А.В. Ваганов) (https://stepik.org/course/60859/promo)
Concolic Testing in Logic Programming
Creators: name: Mesnard, Fred
name: Payet, Étienne
name: Vidal, Germán
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Programming Languages (cs.PL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Software testing is one of the most popular validation techniques in the software industry. Surprisingly, we can only find a few approaches to testing in the context of logic programming. In this paper, we introduce a systematic approach for dynamic testing that combines both concrete and symbolic execution. Our approach is fully automatic and guarantees full path coverage when it terminates. We prove some basic properties of our technique and illustrate its practical usefulness through a prototype implementation.
description: To appear in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP), Proceedings of ICLP 2015
New Heterocyclic Compound as Carbon Steel Corrosion Inhibitor in 1 M H2SO4, High Efficiency at Low Concentration: Experimental and Theoretical Studies
Creators: name: Allah, Mahmood A. Albo Hay
name: Balakit, Asim A.
name: Salman, Hamida Idan
name: Abdulridha, Ali Ahmed
name: Sert, Yusuf
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 60506 Virology

description: A new aromatic Schiff base with azo linkage has been synthesized and characterized by FT-IR, 1H-NMR, and 13C-NMR spectroscopy. The new compound 2-(((5-mercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl)imino)methyl)-4-(p-tolyldiazenyl)phenol (5, denoted as AT) was tested as a carbon steel corrosion inhibitor in 1 M H2SO4. The presence of AT in 0.04 mM concentration at 303 K achieved excellent inhibition efficiency values, 96.6 and 97.4% by potentiodynamic polarization and weight loss measurements, respectively. The adsorption process of AT on carbon steel surface was found to obey Langmuir adsorption isotherm with the highest Kads value 476,190 M−1 at 313 K, and ΔG values −25.53, −26.49, −25.97, and −25.78) kJ mol−1 over the studied range of temperatures 303–333 K, indicating the spontaneous formation of stable protection film through a strong adsorption process. Density function theory (DFT) studies were employed for further investigations about the nature of the interaction between the molecules of AT (both of its tautomers) and metal surface. SEM and AFM analysis were used to confirm the inhibition by comparing the morphology of the corroded surface with the inhibited one.