cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Microbiological Analysis of Well Water from Robeson County, North Carolin
Creators: name: Franklin, Taylor
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Regulation of private wells which serve as the primary drinking water source for many North Carolinians is largely left to property owners. Evidence suggests a lack of testing for well water quality, and a lack of knowledge on the prevalence and sources of contamination. Fecal contamination can be measured by indicator microbes, the detection of which indicates likely contamination by more pathogenic organisms. For this study, 36 private wells in Robeson County, North Carolina were tested for indicator microbes including total coliforms, Escherichia coli, antibiotic resistant Enterobacteriaceae, and somatic and male-specific coliphages. Hollow fiber ultrafiltration was used to compare methods for coliphage analysis, and analysis of larger volumes resulted in greater detection of somatic coliphages. 80% of tested wells were positive for at least one fecal indicator. These results suggest the potential for well water contamination in this underserved community with additional work needed to understand the health risks.
The Neural Particle Filter
Creators: name: Kutschireiter, Anna
name: Surace, Simone Carlo
name: Sprekeler, Henning
name: Pfister, Jean-Pascal
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: The robust estimation of dynamically changing features, such as the position of prey, is one of the hallmarks of perception. On an abstract, algorithmic level, nonlinear Bayesian filtering, i.e. the estimation of temporally changing signals based on the history of observations, provides a mathematical framework for dynamic perception in real time. Since the general, nonlinear filtering problem is analytically intractable, particle filters are considered among the most powerful approaches to approximating the solution numerically. Yet, these algorithms prevalently rely on importance weights, and thus it remains an unresolved question how the brain could implement such an inference strategy with a neuronal population. Here, we propose the Neural Particle Filter (NPF), a weight-less particle filter that can be interpreted as the neuronal dynamics of a recurrently connected neural network that receives feed-forward input from sensory neurons and represents the posterior probability distribution in terms of samples. Specifically, this algorithm bridges the gap between the computational task of online state estimation and an implementation that allows networks of neurons in the brain to perform nonlinear Bayesian filtering. The model captures not only the properties of temporal and multisensory integration according to Bayesian statistics, but also allows online learning with a maximum likelihood approach. With an example from multisensory integration, we demonstrate that the numerical performance of the model is adequate to account for both filtering and identification problems. Due to the weightless approach, our algorithm alleviates the 'curse of dimensionality' and thus outperforms conventional, weighted particle filters in higher dimensions for a limited number of particles.
Formaldehyde-Induced DPCs Effects in DNA Repairing
Creators: name: Yuhong Shu
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021
Subjects: DNA adducts
DNA repair
DNA damage
Formaldehyde

description: DNA-protein crosslinks (DPCs) are bulky DNA lesions formed with the covalently linked DNA-binding proteins and DNA, which can interrupt DNA replication and cause genome instability. However, our current understanding of the adverse effects of DPCs on the DNA repairing process is still limited, and specifically, whether DPCs affect the repair of other DNA adducts are still unclear. In this study, we investigated the effects of formaldehyde-induced DPCs on the repairing efficiency of BPDE-dG adducts.  We first knocked down the expression of SPRTN gene, the key DPC repairing gene, in K562 cells by RNA interference. Then, we treated wild-type and SPRTN- knock downed cells with benzo(a)pyrene diol epoxide (BPDE) for 20min and transferred cells to clean medium for adduct repair. We quantified the BPDE-DNA adducts by ultra-performance liquid chromatography and high-resolution mass spectrometry (UPLC-MS). Cellular BPDE-dG level is low (lower than 10 adducts per million dG) both in wild-type and SPRTN-knock downed cells. However, in the context of formaldehyde treatment, which is known to induce exogenous DPCs, we found SPRTN-knock downed cells have a much higher BPDE-dG adduct level than WT cells and have a significantly low BPDE-dG repairing efficiency.  In conclusion, our results demonstrate for the first time that SPRTN plays an important role in the repair of formaldehyde-induced DPCs and formaldehyde-induced DPCs block the repair of BPDE-DNA adducts.
(4173) Robert Henry Lumb
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Chemical Cartography with APOGEE: Metallicity Distribution Functions and the Chemical Structure of the Milky Way Disk
Creators: name: Hayden, Michael R.
name: Bovy, Jo
name: Holtzman, Jon A.
name: Nidever, David L.
name: Bird, Jonathan C.
name: Weinberg, David H.
name: Andrews, Brett H.
name: Prieto, Carlos Allende
name: Anders, Friedrich
name: Beers, Timothy C.
name: Bizyaev, Dmitry
name: Chiappini, Cristina
name: Cunha, Katia
name: Frinchaboy, Peter
name: García-Herńandez, Domingo A.
name: Pérez, Ana E. García
name: Girardi, Léo
name: Harding, Paul
name: Hearty, Fred R.
name: Johnson, Jennifer A.
name: Majewski, Steven R.
name: Mészáros, Szabolcs
name: Minchev, Ivan
name: O'Connell, Robert
name: Pan, Kaike
name: Robin, Annie C.
name: Schiavon, Ricardo P.
name: Schneider, Donald P.
name: Schultheis, Mathias
name: Shetrone, Matthew
name: Skrutskie, Michael
name: Steinmetz, Matthias
name: Smith, Verne
name: Zamora, Olga
name: Zasowski, Gail
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using a sample of 69,919 red giants from the SDSS-III/APOGEE Data Release 12, we measure the distribution of stars in the [$α$/Fe] vs. [Fe/H] plane and the metallicity distribution functions (MDF) across an unprecedented volume of the Milky Way disk, with radius $311$ kpc. The peak of the midplane MDF shifts to lower metallicity at larger $R$, reflecting the Galactic metallicity gradient. Most strikingly, the shape of the midplane MDF changes systematically with radius, with a negatively skewed distribution at $31$ kpc or [$α$/Fe]$>0.18$, the MDF shows little dependence on $R$. The positive skewness of the outer disk MDF may be a signature of radial migration; we show that blurring of stellar populations by orbital eccentricities is not enough to explain the reversal of MDF shape but a simple model of radial migration can do so.
description: Submitted, 18 pages, 16 figures
Chronic arsenic exposure perturbs gut microbiota and bile acid homeostasis
Creators: name: Xia Sheng
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Chronic arsenic exposure perturbs mammalian metabolome. Gut microbiota regulates the host metabolic homeostasis, and previous studies have demonstrated that arsenic exposure can cause gut microbiota dysbiosis. However, it still unclear whether arsenic-induced gut microbiota dysbiosis plays a role in the arsenic-perturbed metabolic imbalance in the host body. Bile acids are the functional compounds synthesized in host bodies but regulated by gut microbiota. In this study, we exposed C57BL/6 mice to1 ppm arsenic in drinking water for 3 months and investigated whether arsenic exposure affects the bile acid homeostasis in mouse sera and livers and whether it is related to the changes in gut bacteria. We found that arsenic exposure caused the decline of major unconjugated primary bile acids in sera. The ratios of unconjugated bile acids and taurine-conjugated bile acids were also decreased. However, the hepatic level of several primary bile acids, including TMCA, MCA, TCA, was significantly increased in arsenic-treated mice. Secondary bile acids were consistently decreased both in sera and livers by arsenic treatment. Moreover, the relative abundance of Bacteroidetes and Firmicutes was differentially changed by arsenic exposure, which was associated with the bile acid level in sera. In summary, this study demonstrates that arsenic exposure perturbs the bile acid homeostasis and arsenic-induced gut microbiota dysbiosis could play a role in this process, which suggests the important role of gut microbiota in arsenic-associated toxicity.
On transport properties of isotropic quasiperiodic $XY$ spin chains
Creators: name: Kachkovskiy, Ilya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We consider isotropic $XY$ spin chains whose magnetic potentials are quasiperiodic and the effective one-particle Hamiltonians have absolutely continuous spectra. For a wide class of such $XY$ spin chains, we obtain lower bounds on their Lieb--Robinson velocities in terms of group velocities of their effective Hamiltonians: $\mathfrak v\ge\mathrm{ess\,sup}_{[0,1]} \frac{2}π\frac{dE}{dN},$ where $E$ is considered as a function of the integrated density of states.
description: 13 pages
Active feature acquisition for opinion stream classification under drift
Creators: name: Shivakumaraswamy, Ranjith
name: Beyer, Christian
name: Unnikrishnan, Vishnu
name: Ntoutsi, Eirini
name: Spiliopoulou, Myra
Publisher: name: Aachen, Germany : RWTH Aachen
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Active Feature Acquisition
subject: Opinion Stream Classification
subject: Feature acquisition
subject: Feature space
subject: Product categories
subject: Stream classification
subject: Sub-streams
subject: Classification (of information)
subject: Konferenzschrift
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::000 | Allgemeines, Wissenschaft::000 | Informatik, Wissen, Systeme::004 | Informatik

description: Active stream learning is frequently used to acquire labels for instances and less frequently to determine which features should be considered as the stream evolves. We introduce a framework for active feature selection, intended to adapt the feature space of a polarity learner over a stream of opinionated documents. We report on the first results of our framework on substreams of reviews on different product categories.
(4174) Ellen Mary Ann Morris
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(4175) Frances Anderson
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(4176) Benjamin Bentley Haigh
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Formazione e selezione degli insegnanti per la “Colonia-scuola Antonio Marro”
Creators: name: Bombardieri, Chiara
name: Cattabiani, Ada
Publisher: name: Gli Argonauti. Rivista di Studi Storico-Educativi e Pedagogici
Year: 2025
Subjects: Ospedale psichiatrico; pedagogia speciale; istituti per minori; maestri; archivio;Psychiatric hospital; special-needs education; residential special schools; teachers; archive

description: Questo articolo vuole fornire alcuni spunti per la ricerca sulla storia delle maestre e dei maestri che hanno lavorato nella “Colonia-scuola Antonio Marro”, istituita nel 1921 presso l’Ospedale psichiatrico San Lazzaro di Reggio Emilia. Vengono analizzate in particolare le fonti coeve e i materiali conservati nell'archivio amministrativo, che possono fare luce sui processi di selezione e formazione del personale docente e, più in generale, sull’organizzazione di un luogo dedicato alla pedagogia speciale.

The aim of this paper is to suggest a new field of researches, about the history of teachers who worked in "Colonia-scuola Antonio Marro", a residential special school opened in 1921 in the psychiatric hospital San Lazzaro in Reggio Emilia. We analyze particularly the contemporary printed texts and the documents of the administrative funds, in order to underline the methods of selection and education of the teachers working in a place dedicated to special-needs education
description: Gli Argonauti. Rivista di Studi Storico-Educativi e Pedagogici, V. 4, N. 2 (2024)
Social Media in High School Athletics: Recommendations for Individual and Organizational Branding in a Digital Age
Creators: name: Largen, Matthew
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020
Subjects: Branding (Marketing)
High school students
School sports

description: High school athletics have soared to new heights in recent years. With millions of dollars invested into the media coverage and promotion of amateur athletes and high schools, it is important to be mindful of an individual’s and organization’s brand image in the Digital Age. The purpose of this project is to analyze communication and branding strategies from professional and collegiate athletics, and tailor those findings into a sustainable brand strategy for high school athletics. Ten in-depth interviews were conducted with collegiate and professional athletic communicators, collegiate student-athletes, and other members of the sporting community. Findings suggested that an organization’s brand image will continue to be a valuable recruiting tool for student-athletes, but an individual’s brand, prior to collegiate athletics, will rarely affect his or her ability to be recruited. In all, brand strategies should appeal to an individual’s or organization’s target audience(s).
Athleat Nutrition: A Private Practice Specializing in Nutrition Education and Eating Disorder Counseling for Young Athletes
Creators: name: Madison Troyer
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Athleat Nutrition is a private practice based out of Raleigh, NC specializing in middle and high-school aged athletes. Athleat Nutrition will support children and adolescents involved in organized or recreational sports during their most vulnerable life stages through personalized sports nutrition services. As the sole provider and certified sports dietitian, I will focus on creating healthy and sustainable habits by providing evidence-based nutrition education, culturally-relevant nutrition recommendations and tailored interventions for young athletes who need help meeting the demands of his/her sport and physiological needs. Client-based counseling will also be available to empower adolescent athletes living with an eating disorder to lead happy, healthy lives.

In addition to the practice's individual services, Athleat Nutrition will partner with middle schools, high schools, and youth sports programs in Wake County to advocate for and implement a Student-Athlete Wellness Program in these settings. Through this program, I will have the opportunity to provide young athletes free nutrition education resources and materials encouraging a balanced lifestyle to support their health and performance; as well as, developing a healthy relationship with food and their body. The Student-Athlete Wellness Program will not only expand accessibility to children in the community but also their parents, school health providers, coaches, athletic staff, and other relevant school personnel to encourage healthy development among student-athletes within the school environment, their sport, and at home.
Transportation disadvantage among refugees in the Research Triangle
Creators: name: Heatwole, Kaitlin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Limited transportation options constrain what employment, educational, and social opportunities refugees and other transport-disadvantaged populations can pursue. With a theoretical basis in transport exclusion theory, this study examined the transportation patterns of refugees in the Research Triangle of North Carolina using a multi-language survey that builds directly on the existing research of Bose (2014) and Farber et al (2018). Findings confirm that refugees’ travel behaviors differ significantly from that of the general population, with 67% using public transit as their primary mode of transport. In contrast, 90% of respondents identified private vehicles as their preferred mode of transportation.

Mode use patterns shift as refugees’ time since arrival increases, confirming the findings of other studies regarding the travel behaviors of non-native residents over time. Household dependency ratios provide an additional mode-correlated variable, with higher dependency ratios (the ratio of household members under 18 and over 65 years to the number working-age adults) associated with transit use, and lower dependency ratios associated with private vehicle use.  Mode usage was also directly related to earning capacity in both the refugee sample and the broader population in Durham and Orange counties of North Carolina.

Based on these findings, refugee service providers and transportation researchers should use dependency ratios as a mechanism to identify households who may be transport disadvantaged. This pilot study should be replicated at a larger scale, using and expanding the multi-language survey tool to test the validity of these findings in other contexts.
Telaah Kurikulum Matematika
Creators: name: Herianto, H.
name: JUSMIANA, ANDI
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Kurikulum
Matematika
Sekolah

description: Perkembangan kurikulum matematika sekolah, khususnya ditinjau dari implementasi dan aspek teori belajara yang mendasarinya, merupakan faktor yang sangat menarik dalam pembicaraan tentang pendidikan matematika. Hal ini dapat dipahami sebab perubahan-perubahan yang terjadi dalam proses pembelajaran matematika. Sekolah tidak terlepas dari adanya perubahan pandangan tentang hakekat matematika dan belajar matematika. Sebagai akibatnya, tidaklah mengherankan apabila terjadi perubahan kurikulum, maka berubah pulalah pembelajaran di dalam kelas. Buku ajar ini diperuntukkan bagi dosen dan mahasiswa pendidikan matematika. Terbagi menjadi 6 (enam) bagian pembahasan penting. Pertama, kurikulum dan perkembangannya. Kedua, perkembangan kurikulum di Indonesia. Ketiga, kompetensi matematika. Keempat, tujuan kurikulum matematika. Keempat, perkembangan kurikulum matematika di Indonesia. Keenam, matematika sekolah.
A patient-centric modeling framework captures recovery from SARS-CoV-2 infection.
Creators: name: Ruffieux, Hélène
name: Hanson, Aimee L
name: Lodge, Samantha
name: Lawler, Nathan G
name: Whiley, Luke
name: Gray, Nicola
name: Nolan, Tui H
name: Bergamaschi, Laura
name: Mescia, Federica
name: Turner, Lorinda
name: De Sa, Aloka
name: Pelly, Victoria S
name: Cambridge Institute Of Therapeutic Immunology And Infectious Disease-National Institute Of Health Research (CITIID-NIHR) BioResource COVID-19 Collaboration
name: Kotagiri, Prasanti
name: Kingston, Nathalie
name: Bradley, John R
name: Holmes, Elaine
name: Wist, Julien
name: Nicholson, Jeremy K
name: Lyons, Paul A
name: Smith, Kenneth GC
name: Richardson, Sylvia
name: Bantug, Glenn R
name: Hess, Christoph
Publisher: name: Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
Year: 2023
Subjects: Resource
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resource

description: Funder: Lopez-Loreta Foundation
description: Funder: Australian Federal Government’s Medical Research Future Fund (MRFF-ARAPC ARG76435); Western Australian Department of Health; Spinnaker Health Research Foundation; McCusker Charitable Foundation
description: Funder: Medical Research Council Programme Grant (MR/L019027)
description: Funder: Botnar Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH)
description: Funder: COVID-19 Rapid Response DCF (RG93172/HESS/40558); Botnar Research Centre for Child Health (BRCCH)
description: The biology driving individual patient responses to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection remains ill understood. Here, we developed a patient-centric framework leveraging detailed longitudinal phenotyping data and covering a year after disease onset, from 215 infected individuals with differing disease severities. Our analyses revealed distinct 'systemic recovery' profiles, with specific progression and resolution of the inflammatory, immune cell, metabolic and clinical responses. In particular, we found a strong inter-patient and intra-patient temporal covariation of innate immune cell numbers, kynurenine metabolites and lipid metabolites, which highlighted candidate immunologic and metabolic pathways influencing the restoration of homeostasis, the risk of death and that of long COVID. Based on these data, we identified a composite signature predictive of systemic recovery, using a joint model on cellular and molecular parameters measured soon after disease onset. New predictions can be generated using the online tool http://shiny.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/apps/covid-19-systemic-recovery-prediction-app , designed to test our findings prospectively.
The recombination equation for interval partitions
Creators: name: Baake, Michael
name: Shamsara, Elham
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 34A34, 92D10

description: The general deterministic recombination equation in continuous time is analysed for various lattices, with special emphasis on the lattice of interval (or ordered) partitions. Based on the recently constructed general solution for the lattice of all partitions, the corresponding solution for interval partitions is derived and analysed in detail. We focus our attention on the recursive structure of the solution and its decay rates, and also discuss the solution in the degenerate cases, where it comprises products of monomials with exponentially decaying factors. This can be understood via the Markov generator of the underlying partitioning process that was recently identified. We use interval partitions to gain insight into the structure of the solution, while our general framework works for arbitrary lattices.
description: 25 pages, some minor updates and corrections
Labor and Delivery Guidance for COVID-19
Creators: name: Manuck, Tracy
name: Boelig, Rupsa C.
name: Saccone, Gabriele
name: Berghella, Vincenzo
name: Bellussi, Federica
name: Oliver, Emily A.
name: Di Mascio, Daniele
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: This document addresses the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic for providers and patients in labor and delivery (L&D). The goals are to provide guidance regarding methods to appropriately screen and test pregnant patients for COVID-19 prior to, and at admission to L&D reduce risk of maternal and neonatal COVID-19 disease through minimizing hospital contact and appropriate isolation and provide specific guidance for management of L&D of the COVID-19-positive woman, as well as the critically ill COVID-19-positive woman. The first 5 sections deal with L&D issues in general, for all women, during the COVID-19 pandemic. These include Section 1: Appropriate screening, testing, and preparation of pregnant women for COVID-19 before visit and/or admission to L&D Section 2: Screening of patients coming to L&D triage; Section 3: General changes to routine L&D work flow; Section 4: Intrapartum care; Section 5: Postpartum care; Section 6 deals with special care for the COVID-19-positive or suspected pregnant woman in L&D and Section 7 deals with the COVID-19-positive/suspected woman who is critically ill. These are suggestions, which can be adapted to local needs and capabilities.
(4170) Ellenor Thorley
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Integrating an Intuitive Eating and Health at Every Size Framework into Eating Disorder Nutrition Counseling: A Case Report
Creators: name: Rollison, Abigail
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Eating disorders affect millions of Americans and are one of the deadliest mental illnesses. Treatment for an eating disorder should include psychological, behavioral, nutritional, and medical care, with a registered dietitian as an essential component of the treatment team. Emerging research suggests that intuitive eating and health at every size may be effective approaches to reducing disordered eating. These approaches are weight-neutral, meaning they focus on health promotion without using weight as a health indicator. This is especially important as additional research reveals the high prevalence of weight stigma and its associated negative health outcomes, including increased risk of eating disorders. This case report describes how a dietitian integrated the concepts of intuitive eating and health at every size into eating disorder nutrition counseling at the outpatient level with a client in a larger body. These weight-inclusive strategies effectively reduced the patient’s eating disorder behaviors, while also decreasing the patient’s internalized weight stigma.
Broad Angle Negative Refraction in Lossless all Dielectric Multilayer Asymmetric Anisotropic Metamaterial
Creators: name: Sayem, Ayed Al
name: Mahdy, Mahdy Rahman Chowdhury
name: Rahman, Md. Saifur
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this article, it has been theoretically shown that broad angle negative refraction is possible with asymmetric anisotropic metamaterials constructed by only dielectrics or loss less semiconductors at the telecommunication and relative wavelength range. Though natural uniaxial materials can exhibit negative refraction, the maximum angle of negative refraction and critical incident angle lie in a very narrow range. This notable problem can be overcome by our proposed structure. In our structures, negative refraction originates from the highly asymmetric elliptical iso-frequency.This is artificially created by the rotated multilayer sub-wavelength dielectric/semiconductor stack, which act as an effective asymmetric anisotropic metamaterial.This negative refraction is achieved without using any negative permittivity materials such as metals. As we are using simple dielectrics, fabrication of such structures would be less complex than that of the metal based metamaterials. Our proposed ideas have been validated numerically and also by the full wave simulations considering both the effective medium approach and realistic structure model. This device might find some important applications in photonics and optoelectronics.
description: 14 pages , 6 figures
(4171) Florence Alexandra Grauhan
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
An Eating Disorder Professional Development Toolkit for Registered Dietitians
Creators: name: Ondrish, Sarah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Eating disorders are pervasive mental health illnesses that can negatively affect all aspects of life. Registered dietitians play a crucial role in the treatment of eating disorders and their contributions to the interdisciplinary team is invaluable. Despite this knowledge, few dietetic programs provide sufficient education and training on eating disorders, leaving both aspiring and practicing RDs with limited skills in this important area. Therefore, the aim of this toolkit is to provide an applicable resource for dietetic students and current RDs to gain insight into this challenging yet highly rewarding field.
Electric and Magnetic Dipoles in the Lorentz and Einstein-Laub Formulations of Classical Electrodynamics
Creators: name: Mansuripur, Masud
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The classical theory of electrodynamics cannot explain the existence and structure of electric and magnetic dipoles, yet it incorporates such dipoles into its fundamental equations, simply by postulating their existence and properties, just as it postulates the existence and properties of electric charges and currents. Maxwell's macroscopic equations are mathematically exact and self-consistent differential equations that relate the electromagnetic (EM) field to its sources, namely, electric charge-density $ρ_{free}$, electric current-density $J_{free}$, polarization P, and magnetization M. At the level of Maxwell's macroscopic equations, there is no need for models of electric and magnetic dipoles. For example, whether a magnetic dipole is an Amperian current-loop or a Gilbertian pair of north and south magnetic monopoles has no effect on the solution of Maxwell's equations. Electromagnetic fields carry energy as well as linear and angular momenta, which they can exchange with material media - the seat of the sources of the EM field - thereby exerting force and torque on these media. In the Lorentz formulation of classical electrodynamics, the electric and magnetic fields, E and B, exert forces and torques on electric charge and current distributions. An electric dipole is then modeled as a pair of electric charges on a stick (or spring), and a magnetic dipole is modeled as an Amperian current loop, so that the Lorentz force law can be applied to the corresponding (bound) charges and (bound) currents of these dipoles. In contrast, the Einstein-Laub formulation circumvents the need for specific models of the dipoles by simply providing a recipe for calculating the force-density and torque-density exerted by the E and H fields on charge, current, polarization and magnetization.
description: 15 pages, 13 equations, 40 references
title: Κρήτη: Δύση και Ανατολή. «Κινήσεις εκκρεμούς» στα θρησκευτικά κτίσματα της πόλης του Ηρακλείου
title: Crete: West and east “Pendulum movement” In the religious buildings of Heraklion
Creators: name: Τερζακη Ευθυμια
Publisher: name: Technical University of Crete
Year: 2023

description: Σκοπός της εργασίας είναι η διερεύνηση του τρόπου με τον οποίο εκφράσθηκε αρχιτεκτονικά και αστικά η μετάβαση από τη μία κτήση στην άλλη κατά τη διάρκεια της ιστορίας της Κρήτης, επικεντρωμένη στα θρησκευτικά κτήρια της πόλης του Ηρακλείου.
Αναλύεται η μετάβαση από την Ενετική Κυριαρχία (Δύση) στην Οθωμανική (Ανατολή) και στη συνέχεια στην Ένωση με την Ελλάδα (Δύση) αλλά και στα "αντάλλαξιμα" που αποτελούν ιδιάζουσα μετάβαση.
Αντικείμενο της έρευνας αποτελούν 41 από τα 135 συνολικά θρησκευτικά κτήρια που υπήρχαν σύμφωνα με τις  πηγές στην πόλη του Ηρακλείου κατά την Ενετική περίοδο.
Κριτήριο επιλογής των συγκεκριμένων κτισμάτων αποτελεί το ότι χρησιμοποιήθηκαν διαδοχικά από διαφορετικές κυριαρχίες και είναι εκείνα που καλούνται να σηματοδοτήσουν στο χώρο την παρουσία των θρησκειών του εκάστοτε κατακτητή συγκροτώντας την κίνηση εκκρεμούς ανάμεσα σε Δύση και Ανατολή. Επελέγησαν δέκα αντιπροσωπευτικά μνημεία τα οποία αναλύονται ενδελεχώς καθότι είναι εκείνα τα οποία διαθέτουν τρείς φάσεις και κατά τούτο προσφέρονται ιδιαιτέρως για την εν λόγω  μελέτη.
Μεταξύ άλλων η ερευνητική εργασία θα επιχειρήσει να απαντήσει σε ερωτήματα όπως:
Με ποιους αρχιτεκτονικούς και αστικούς χειρισμούς γίνεται διακριτή η μετάβαση από την μια κτήση στην άλλη και την αλλαγή θρησκεύματος;
Ποια φάση εμφανίζει εμφανέστερη αρχιτεκτονική και αστική παρέμβαση και πως αυτό ερμηνεύεται;
Ποιός ο ρόλος της "προσφυγικής φάσης" και των "ανταλλαξίμων" στην διαφύλαξη και προστασία αυτών των μνημείων;
Strong Integer Additive Set-valued Graphs: A Creative Review
Creators: name: Sudev, N. K.
name: Germina, K. A.
name: Chithra, K. P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Mathematics (math.GM)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 05C78

description: For a non-empty ground set $X$, finite or infinite, the {\em set-valuation} or {\em set-labeling} of a given graph $G$ is an injective function $f:V(G) \to \mathcal{P}(X)$, where $\mathcal{P}(X)$ is the power set of the set $X$. A set-indexer of a graph $G$ is an injective set-valued function $f:V(G) \to \mathcal{P}(X)$ such that the function $f^{\ast}:E(G)\to \mathcal{P}(X)-\{\emptyset\}$ defined by $f^{\ast}(uv) = f(u){\ast} f(v)$ for every $uv{\in} E(G)$ is also injective., where $\ast$ is a binary operation on sets. An integer additive set-indexer is defined as an injective function $f:V(G)\to \mathcal{P}({\mathbb{N}_0})$ such that the induced function $g_f:E(G) \to \mathcal{P}(\mathbb{N}_0)$ defined by $g_f (uv) = f(u)+ f(v)$ is also injective, where $\mathbb{N}_0$ is the set of all non-negative integers and $\mathcal{P}(\mathbb{N}_0)$ is its power set. An IASI $f$ is said to be a strong IASI if $|f^+(uv)|=|f(u)|\,|f(v)|$ for every pair of adjacent vertices $u,v$ in $G$. In this paper, we critically and creatively review the concepts and properties of strong integer additive set-valued graphs.
description: 13 pages, Published. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1407.4677, arXiv:1405.4788, arXiv:1310.6266
The community acceptance of COVID-19 booster vaccination in Indonesia
Creators: name: Susanna, Dewi
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: COVID-19
booster vaccine
Knowledge
Attitude
booster vaccination acceptance

description: This research aimed to determine the factors influencing the community acceptance of booster vaccination with a focus on sociodemographic characteristics, knowledge, media exposure, and attitude. The research was conducted online through a digital questionnaire using the Google Forms platform distributed by social media. The population for this research comprised eligible individuals in Indonesia qualified to receive vaccine booster. The minimum required sample size was 425. The questionnaire was developed based on references from previous research and tailored to the specific needs.
description: Funding provided by: Directorate of Research and Development Univesity of Indonesia*Crossref Funder Registry ID: Award Number: NKB-434/UN2.RST/HKP.05.00/2023.
description: The research was a cross-sectional designed. The data were collected in September and October 2023 through a digital questionnaire using the Google Forms platform distributed by Line, WhatsApp, Instagram, Twitter, and TikTok and 425 respondents from Indonesia were selected. Data analysis included univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analyses.
Improving Cancer Treatment by Combining Metabolic Inhibition with Immunotherapy
Creators: name: Pfeil, Alexander
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: This work was sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Research via a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF). I investigated the immunological effects of inhibiting pyruvate metabolism in a mouse model of triple negative breast cancer. We found increased lactate production in response to pyruvate metabolism inhibition as well as an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment. As lactate is a known immunosuppressive metabolite, this finding informed a future mouse study investigating potential synergy between lactate metabolism inhibitors and pyruvate metabolism modulation.
Post-conflict crime spikes in Colombia 2015-2018
Creators: name: Alvarez, G. R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: The signing of a peace accord between the Government of Colombia and the FARC guerrilla in 2016 has meant the end of an extended confrontation. One expected post-conflict effect was a reduction in homicide rates in municipalities under previous FARC control Instead, two years after, homicide rates have spiked in these areas. The 
central question analyzed is: Why did crime rates increased after the peace agreement between the Government of Colombia and the FARC guerrilla? -I hypothesize that the vacuum left by FARC after the peace accords and the arrival of other illegal actors are associated with post-peace crime spikes. I argue that in municipalities where the FARC had a presence before the peace agreements, the peace agreements compelled the FARC to limit their regulatory role, making these municipalities vulnerable to increased homicide and robbery rates as other illegal actors arrived after the peace accord. My statistical analysis reveals evidence for this argument, particularly in municipalities with the presence of FARC dissidents and paramilitary groups, as well 
as where coca crops are cultivated.
Sovereign extractions, extractive sovereignty
Creators: name: Von Bieberstein, Alice
name: Evren, Erdem
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Sovereignty
subject: extraction
subject: capitalism
subject: violence
subject: racialisation
subject: 320 Politikwissenschaft (Politik und Regierung)

description: Within the broader context of a financialised supply-chain capitalism and the international governance of statehood in the wake of decolonisation and European integration, this special issue asks how sovereignty figures in relation to extraction at this conjuncture. In this introduction, we outline the issue's conceptual framework. We argue that sovereignty manifests as a space-making power, across different scales, which delineates and crafts various sites and zones of contemporary processes of extraction as various kinds of ‘outside’. We understand this ‘outside’ not only from the structural point of view of capital accumulation or simply in terms of its function for the stabilisation of capitalism. Rather, we understand it as shaped and saturated by symbolic investments and determinations, through discursive formations, fantasies and patterns of racialisation and dehumanisation, which assist the operations of extractive capital but which may also feature histories and genealogies not reducible to the logics of capital. But we also take distance from an Agambenian take on the ‘outside’, which would figure its sovereign dimension in terms of negativity, as a withdrawal of the law and a form of abandonment. Our interest lies in tracing the mutual articulation and implication of (genocidal, colonial, imperial) violence and capitalist extractions of value and wealth as they intersect, often conjointly, at times in tension, in the crafting and delineation of space.
Mass Exchange Processes with Input
Creators: name: Krapivsky, P. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate a system of interacting clusters evolving through mass exchange and supplemented by input of small clusters. Three possibilities depending on the rate of exchange generically occur when input is homogeneous: continuous growth, gelation, and instantaneous gelation. We mostly study the growth regime using scaling methods. An exchange process with reaction rates equal to the product of reactant masses admits an exact solution which allows us to justify the validity of scaling approaches in this special case. We also investigate exchange processes with a localized input. We show that if the diffusion coefficients are mass-independent, the cluster mass distribution becomes stationary and develops an algebraic tail far away from the source.
description: 14 pages, 2 figs
(4172) Beatrice Maud Grauhan
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
$f$-divergence Inequalities
Creators: name: Sason, Igal
name: Verdú, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper develops systematic approaches to obtain $f$-divergence inequalities, dealing with pairs of probability measures defined on arbitrary alphabets. Functional domination is one such approach, where special emphasis is placed on finding the best possible constant upper bounding a ratio of $f$-divergences. Another approach used for the derivation of bounds among $f$-divergences relies on moment inequalities and the logarithmic-convexity property, which results in tight bounds on the relative entropy and Bhattacharyya distance in terms of $χ^2$ divergences. A rich variety of bounds are shown to hold under boundedness assumptions on the relative information. Special attention is devoted to the total variation distance and its relation to the relative information and relative entropy, including "reverse Pinsker inequalities," as well as on the $E_γ$ divergence, which generalizes the total variation distance. Pinsker's inequality is extended for this type of $f$-divergence, a result which leads to an inequality linking the relative entropy and relative information spectrum. Integral expressions of the Rényi divergence in terms of the relative information spectrum are derived, leading to bounds on the Rényi divergence in terms of either the variational distance or relative entropy.
description: IEEE Trans. on Information Theory, vol. 62, no. 11, pp. 5973--6006, November 2016. This manuscript is identical to the journal paper, apart of some additional material which includes Sections III-C and IV-F, and three technical proofs