cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Disentangling dark sector models using weak lensing statistics
Creators: name: Giocoli, Carlo
name: Metcalf, R. Benton
name: Baldi, Marco
name: Meneghetti, Massimo
name: Moscardini, Lauro
name: Petkova, Margarita
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We perform multi-plane ray-tracing using the GLAMER gravitational lensing code within high-resolution light-cones extracted from the CoDECS simulations: a suite of cosmological runs featuring a coupling between Dark Energy and Cold Dark Matter. We show that the presence of the coupling is evident not only in the redshift evolution of the normalisation of the convergence power spectrum, but also in differences in non-linear structure formation with respect to ΛCDM. Using a tomographic approach under the assumption of a ΛCDM cosmology, we demonstrate that weak lensing measurements would result in a σ8 value that changes with the source redshift if the true underlying cosmology is a coupled Dark Energy one. This provides a generic null test for these types of models. We also find that different models of coupled Dark Energy can show either an enhanced or a suppressed correlation between convergence maps with differing source redshifts as compared to ΛCDM. This would provide a direct way to discriminate between different possible realisations of the coupled Dark Energy scenario. Finally, we discuss the impact of the coupling on several lensing observables for different source redshifts and angular scales with realistic source redshift distributions for current ground-based and future space-based lensing surveys.
description: 17 pag. and 14 fig. replaced to match the accepted version (increased the number of light-cone realisations)
Scaling and regeneration of self-organized patterns
Creators: name: Werner, Steffen
name: Stückemann, Tom
name: Amigo, Manuel Beirán
name: Rink, Jochen C.
name: Jülicher, Frank
name: Friedrich, Benjamin M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Tissues and Organs (q-bio.TO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Biological patterns generated during development and regeneration often scale with organism size. Some organisms, e.g., flatworms, can regenerate a rescaled body plan from tissue fragments of varying sizes. Inspired by these examples, we introduce a generalization of Turing patterns that is self-organized and self-scaling. A feedback loop involving diffusing expander molecules regulates the reaction rates of a Turing system, thereby adjusting pattern length scales proportional to system size. Our model captures essential features of body plan regeneration in flatworms as observed in experiments.
description: 5 pages, 3 color figures
Disasters and the Public Health Safety Net: Hurricane Floyd Hits the North Carolina Medicaid Program
Creators: name: Moon, Yoosun
name: Olinick, Joshua
name: Domino, Marisa Elena
name: Yoon, Jangho
name: Fried, Bruce
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: Objectives. We measured the effect of Hurricane Floyd on Medicaid enrollment and health services use in the most severely affected counties of North Carolina.
Earth's Mesosphere During Possible Encounters With Massive Interstellar Clouds 2 and 7 Million Years Ago
Creators: name: Miller, Jesse A.
name: Opher, Merav
name: Hatzaki, Maria
name: Papachristopoulou, Kyriakoula
name: Thomas, Brian C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Atmospheric and Oceanic Physics (physics.ao-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Our solar system's path has recently been shown to potentially intersect dense interstellar clouds 2 and 7 million years ago: the Local Lynx of Cold Cloud and the edge of the Local Bubble. These clouds compressed the heliosphere, directly exposing Earth to the interstellar medium. Previous studies that examined climate effects of these encounters argued for an induced ice age due to the formation of global noctilucent clouds (NLCs). Here, we revisit such studies with a modern 2D atmospheric chemistry model using parameters of global heliospheric magnetohydrodynamic models as input. We show that NLCs remain confined to polar latitudes and short seasonal lifetimes during these dense cloud crossings lasting $\sim10^5$ years. Polar mesospheric ozone becomes significantly depleted, but the total ozone column broadly increases. Furthermore, we show that the densest NLCs lessen the amount of sunlight reaching the surface instantaneously by up to 7% while halving outgoing longwave radiation.
description: 12 pages, 4 figures
Is there a global disparity in our backyard?  Cervical Cancer Screening among foreign-born women at  Urban Ministries Open Door Clinic
Creators: name: McFarlane, Sophia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Introduction: Ethnic minority communities and immigrant populations in the US experience disparate outcomes compared to the general population. This research aims to investigate potential disparities in cervical cancer screening history based on ethnicity and birthplace at Urban Ministries of Wake County, Open Door Clinic (ODC). The study seeks to contribute to existing knowledge about the relationship between cervical cancer screening and ethnicity/birthplace to inform targeted outreach programs for immigrant and refugee populations.

Methods: This retrospective cohort study examined the relationship between ethnicity/birthplace and cervical cancer screening history at Urban Ministries Open Door Clinic. Statistical analysis included univariate and multivariate logistic regression models to calculate odds ratios (ORs) for cervical cancer screening among foreign-born compared to US-born patients.

Results: The study included 1,276 eligible female patients aged 21-99, with 54.8% identified as foreign-born. Among the patients, 47.7% had ever received a Pap smear, with 82.3% of screened patients being foreign-born. In the multivariate analysis, being foreign-born was associated with a significantly higher odds ratio (OR) of 68.10 (95% CI 9.94-466.60) for having ever had cervical cancer screening.

Conclusion: Cervical cancer screening is crucial for sexual and reproductive health, particularly among vulnerable populations like immigrants and refugees. This study found that foreign-born patients at Open Door Clinic were more likely to receive cervical cancer screening, indicating the potential effectiveness of integrated services for immigrant populations. Further research is needed to establish the association between these services and screening outcomes and promote their implementation to address cervical cancer screening disparities among immigrants.
Imprint of topological degeneracy in quasi-one-dimensional fractional quantum Hall states
Creators: name: Sagi, Eran
name: Oreg, Yuval
name: Stern, Ady
name: Halperin, Bertrand I.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider an annular superconductor-insulator-superconductor Josephson-junction, with the insulator being a double layer of electron and holes at Abelian fractional quantum Hall states of identical fillings. When the two superconductors gap out the edge modes, the system has a topological ground state degeneracy in the thermodynamic limit akin to the fractional quantum Hall degeneracy on a torus. In the quasi-one-dimensional limit, where the width of the insulator becomes small, the ground state energies are split. We discuss several implications of the topological degeneracy that survive the crossover to the quasi-one-dimensional limit. In particular, the Josephson effect shows a $2πd$-periodicity, where $d$ is the ground state degeneracy in the 2 dimensional limit. We find that at special values of the relative phase between the two superconductors there are protected crossing points in which the degeneracy is not completely lifted. These features occur also if the insulator is a time-reversal-invariant fractional topological insulator. We describe the latter using a construction based on coupled wires. Furthermore, when the superconductors are replaced by systems with an appropriate magnetic order that gap the edges via a spin-flipping backscattering, the Josephson effect is replaced by a spin Josephson effect.
Lattice QCD Evidence that the Lambda(1405) Resonance is an Antikaon-Nucleon Molecule
Creators: name: Hall, Jonathan M. M.
name: Kamleh, Waseem
name: Leinweber, Derek B.
name: Menadue, Benjamin J.
name: Owen, Benjamin J.
name: Thomas, Anthony W.
name: Young, Ross D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For almost 50 years the structure of the Lambda(1405) resonance has been a mystery. Even though it contains a heavy strange quark and has odd parity, its mass is lower than any other excited spin-1/2 baryon. Dalitz and co-workers speculated that it might be a molecular state of an antikaon bound to a nucleon. However, a standard quark-model structure is also admissible. Although the intervening years have seen considerable effort, there has been no convincing resolution. Here we present a new lattice QCD simulation showing that the strange magnetic form factor of the Lambda(1405) vanishes, signaling the formation of an antikaon-nucleon molecule. Together with a Hamiltonian effective-field-theory model analysis of the lattice QCD energy levels, this strongly suggests that the structure is dominated by a bound antikaon-nucleon component. This result clarifies that not all states occurring in nature can be described within a simple quark model framework and points to the existence of exotic molecular meson-nucleon bound states.
description: Manuscript accepted for publication. 4 figures, 5 pages
Research Expectations Among African American Church Leaders in the PRAISE! Project: A Randomized Trial Guided by Community-Based Participatory Research
Creators: name: Weathers, Beneta
name: Ammerman, Alice
name: St. George, Diane Marie M.
name: Washington, Chanetta
name: Jackson-Christian, Bethany
name: Corbie-Smith, Giselle
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: Objectives. This study sought to examine the expectations and satisfaction of pastors and lay leaders regarding a research partnership in a randomized trial guided by community-based participatory research (CBPR) methods.
Polar molecules in frustrated triangular ladders
Creators: name: Mishra, Tapan
name: Greschner, Sebastian
name: Santos, Luis
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Polar molecules in geometrically frustrated lattices may result in a very rich landscape of quantum phases, due to the non-trivial interplay between frustration, and two- and possibly three-body inter-site interactions. In this paper, we illustrate this intriguing physics for the case of hard-core polar molecules in frustrated triangular ladders. Whereas commensurate lattice fillings result in gapped phases with bond-order and/or density-wave order, at incommensurate fillings we find chiral-, two-component-, and pair-superfluids. We show as well that, remarkably, polar molecules in frustrated lattices allow, for the first time to our knowledge, for the observation of bond-ordered supersolids.
The Impact of Community Design and Land-Use Choices on Public Health: A Scientific Research Agenda
Creators: name: Tilson, Hugh H.
name: Pratt, Michael
name: Dannenberg, Andrew L.
name: Schieber, Richard A.
name: Frumkin, Howard
name: Jackson, Richard J.
name: Kochtitzky, Chris
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2003

description: The design of a community’s built environment influences the physical and mental health of its residents. Because few studies have investigated this relationship, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention hosted a workshop in May 2002 to help develop a scientific research agenda on these issues.
Low Rates of Breakthrough COVID-19 Infection After SARS-CoV-2 Vaccination in Patients With Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Creators: name: Hernandez, Cristian
name: Weaver, Kimberly N
name: Chun, Kelly Y
name: Kastl, Arthur
name: Bousvaros, Athos
name: Bewtra, Meenakshi
name: Long, Millie D
name: Bellaguarda, Emanuelle
name: Cross, Raymond K
name: Strople, Jennifer A
name: Dai, Xiangfeng
name: Chen, Wenli
name: Farraye, Francis A
name: Watkins, Runa
name: Adler, Jeremy
name: Kappelman, Michael D
name: Craig, Riley
name: Dubinsky, Marla C
name: Higgins, Peter D R
name: Ungaro, Ryan C
name: Zhang, Xian
name: Boccieri, Margie E
name: Firestine, Ann
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: We demonstrate low rates of breakthrough coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) infection and mild course of illness following severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 vaccination in a large cohort of inflammatory bowel disease patients. Residence in southern United States and lower median anti-receptor binding antibody level were associated with development of COVID-19.
AssistTaxi: A Comprehensive Dataset for Taxiway Analysis and Autonomous Operations
Creators: name: Ganeriwala, Parth
name: Bhattacharyya, Siddhartha
name: Gunther, Sean
name: Kish, Brian
name: Khan, Mohammed Abdul Hafeez
name: Dhadoti, Ankur
name: Neogi, Natasha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: The availability of high-quality datasets play a crucial role in advancing research and development especially, for safety critical and autonomous systems. In this paper, we present AssistTaxi, a comprehensive novel dataset which is a collection of images for runway and taxiway analysis. The dataset comprises of more than 300,000 frames of diverse and carefully collected data, gathered from Melbourne (MLB) and Grant-Valkaria (X59) general aviation airports. The importance of AssistTaxi lies in its potential to advance autonomous operations, enabling researchers and developers to train and evaluate algorithms for efficient and safe taxiing. Researchers can utilize AssistTaxi to benchmark their algorithms, assess performance, and explore novel approaches for runway and taxiway analysis. Addition-ally, the dataset serves as a valuable resource for validating and enhancing existing algorithms, facilitating innovation in autonomous operations for aviation. We also propose an initial approach to label the dataset using a contour based detection and line extraction technique.
A switchable optical diffuser based on a polymer/nematic liquid crystal composite film with transient polymer balls-networks microstructure
Creators: name: Zhou, Le
name: Han, Cheng
name: Saeed, Mohsin Hassan
name: Cuihong Zhang
name: Lanying Zhang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
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: Cancer
subject: Computational Biology

description: With the increasing development of multifunction liquid crystal displays (LCDs), multifunction optical diffusers have attracted more attention. In this work, switchable optical diffusers based on the transient polymer balls-networks in polymer/nematic liquid crystal composite films have been prepared and investigated, and the effects of thiol content, curing time, LC content and photo-initiator content on the polymer microstructures and optical properties of optical diffusers are systematically studied. An optical diffuser with the transient polymer balls-networks microstructure has achieved the high transmission (96.42%), high haze (90.49%), excellent optical diffusing ability and wide viewing angle of 150° (from −75° to 75°) on its off state. By the application of electric field of 40.0 voltage, the viewing angle of the optical diffuser turns to be narrower (from −60° to 60°), which gives great applications in tunable viewing angle devices and other electric optical devices. The transient polymer balls-networks microstructure in the LCs/polymer composite films not only provides the optical diffuser with high transmission and high haze, but the optical diffuser is also switched by the electric field due to the special structure. Additionally, the transient polymer balls-networks morphology is controlled via ene-thiol click reaction, which has great potential in the applications of LCs/polymer composite films.
Environmental justice spatial issues : analysis of Austin’s public schools and their proximity to environmental hazards
Creators: name: Willis, Ottilia
name: 0000-0002-9227-357X
Publisher: name: The University of Texas at Austin
Year: 2022
Subjects: School
Environmental justice
Austin
AISD
Toxic release inventory
TRI

description: It is well documented that communities of color are disproportionately burdened with environmental harms. This report explores issues surrounding the location of environmental harms in Austin and the general social vulnerability of each Census tract in Travis county. It presents spatial patterns of toxic release inventories that self-report toxic chemicals they use and store. Each of these variables are considered in regards to the location of public schools to determine which schools are most at risk of being negatively impacted by these harms. Lastly, this report provides recommendations of organizations the City of Austin should partner with to support youth, as well as recommendations for school and toxic release site locations.
The Ever-Beating Heart: Constructions of Femininity and Centrality in South Korean Dramas
Creators: name: Angell, Katherine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: This thesis analyzes gender identity and centrality in South Korean dramas through the lens of the character archetypes of the Cinderella, the Mortal, the Chadonyeo, and the Spunky Heroine. Drawing on Korean and Western feminist thought, film theory, and Korean media studies, this work argues that women are made uniquely central in Korean dramas through their roles as nexuses of story structure and audience identification that defy binary labels often applied to female characters such as conservative or progressive.
Acceptability of a Microbicide Among Women and Their Partners in a 4-Country Phase I Trial
Creators: name: Jogelkar, Neelam
name: Bentley, Margaret E.
name: Khumalo-Sakutukwa, Gertrude
name: Kelly, Clifton W.
name: Tolley, Elizabeth E.
name: Fullem, Andrew M.
name: Celentano, David D.
name: Mwafulirwa, Liness
name: Srirak, Namtip
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: Objectives. We analyzed qualitative and quantitative data for 98 HIV-negative, low-risk women in Malawi, Zimbabwe, India, and Thailand who participated in a safety and acceptability study of BufferGel, a vaginal microbicide to determine the across-country acceptability of vaginal microbicides among women and their partners.
Die "schola catholica" im Prozeß der Säkularisation
Creators: name: Weinacht, Paul-Ludwig
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 19 Nr. 1 (1990): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 19, Heft 1
Assessing the Long-Term Effects of the Safe Dates Program and a Booster in Preventing and Reducing Adolescent Dating Violence Victimization and Perpetration
Creators: name: Bauman, Karl E.
name: Suchindran, Chirayath
name: Foshee, Vangie A.
name: Linder, G. Fletcher
name: Ennett, Susan T.
name: Benefield, Thad
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: Objectives. This study determined 4-year postintervention effects of Safe Dates on dating violence, booster effects, and moderators of the program effects.
Availability and Perceived Effectiveness of Public Health Activities in the Nation’s Most Populous Communities
Creators: name: Halverson, Paul K.
name: Baker, Edward L.
name: Vann, Julie J.
name: Mays, Glen P.
name: Stevens, Rachel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: Objectives. We examined the availability and perceived effectiveness of 20 basic public health activities in the communities where most Americans reside.
Breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Among Latinas and Non-Latina Whites
Creators: name: Gammon, Marilie D.
name: Abraído-Lanza, Ana F.
name: Chao, Maria T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: Objectives. We examined whether Latinas differ from non-Latinas in having undergone recent mammography, clinical breast examination, or Papanicolaou testing, as well as the contribution of sociodemographic and health care variables to screening.
formicidae-tracker/hardware: v0.1.0
Creators: name: Alexandre Tuleu
name: Matthias Rüegg
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: FORmicidae Tracker (FORT) : Hardware Blueprints and Firmware
 
The FORmicidae Tracker (FORT) is an advanced online tracking system designed specifically for studying social insects, particularly ants and bees, FORT utilizes fiducial markers for extended individual tracking. Its key features include real-time online tracking and a modular design architecture that supports distributed processing. The project's current repositories encompass comprehensive hardware blueprints, technical documentation, and associated firmware and software for online tracking and offline data analysis.
These files are the ECAD files and firmware of custom electronic modules for the environmental control of FORT.
To find all the related works of FORT, please refer to https://zenodo.org/doi/10.5281/zenodo.10018588
Chief Sustainability Officers: Symbolic or Substantial?
Creators: name: Hatsios, Alexandra
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Businesses have begun to realize the environmental, social, and economic benefits that
they can unleash by integrating sustainability into business strategy. As a result, firms have
elevated sustainability responsibilities to senior leadership with the introduction of the Chief
Sustainability Officer (CSO). However, critics believe that the decision is symbolic rather than
substantive. Further, my research seeks to understand the symbolic vs. substantial impact of CSO
equivalents at large companies by considering climate-related performance metrics. I use a
mixed methods design, employing both statistical and qualitative analyses. My quantitative
findings reveal that CSO presence is associated with emissions target setting and projected
temperature alignment, and CSO sustainability-related expertise is a statistically significant
factor in decarbonization target variation. My qualitative results indicate that CSOs are most
impactful when they have a mix of technical, strategic, and soft skills, along with board support
and ample resources. These factors allow CSOs to communicate across many internal and
external stakeholders. Given my findings, along with evidence from prior literature, I argue that
companies can maximize the substantive impact of their CSO through hiring and placement
decisions that prioritize collaboration across all stakeholder groups.
Changes in Diet Quality of American Preschoolers Between 1977 and 1998
Creators: name: Siega-Riz, Anna Maria
name: Kranz, Sibylle
name: Herring, Amy H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: Objectives. We determined diet quality trends among nationally representative samples of preschoolers between 1977 and 1998.
New physics with ultra-high-energy neutrinos
Creators: name: Marfatia, D.
name: McKay, D. W.
name: Weiler, T. J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Now that PeV neutrinos have been discovered by IceCube, we optimistically entertain the possibility that neutrinos with energy above 100 PeV exist. We evaluate the dependence of event rates of such neutrinos on the neutrino-nucleon cross section at observatories that detect particles, atmospheric fluorescence, or Cherenkov radiation, initiated by neutrino interactions. We consider how (i) a simple scaling of the total standard model neutrino-nucleon cross section, (ii) a new elastic neutral current interaction, and (iii) a new completely inelastic interaction, individually impact event rates.
description: 5 pages, 1 table. Version to appear in PLB
Additional file 1: of Exome-wide search and functional annotation of genes associated in patients with severe tick-borne encephalitis in a Russian population
Creators: name: Ignatieva, Elena
name: Yurchenko, Andrey
name: Voevoda, Mikhail
name: Yudin, Nikolay
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Cancer
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: 60506 Virology
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S1. Genes harboring rare pathogenic variants revealed in exomes of patients with TBE (cases set) and in exomes of the control individuals (control set). Table S2. Cases_only set, containing genes that were unique for the cases set. Table S3. Genetic variants (SNPs or Indels) associated with severe forms of TBE at P-value less than 0.01. Table S4. Three sets of genes harboring genetic variants associated with severe forms of TBE at P-value less than 0.01: (1) associated set; (2) associated_possibly damaging set; (3) associated_harmful set. Table S5. Genetic variants found in eighty genes shared by the cases_only (2407 genes) set and the associated_possibly damaging set (132 genes). Table S6. ECM proteoglycans - cell periphery set, containing genes from the cases_only set, annotated by overrepresented terms. Table S7. PPIs between genes/proteins from the ECM proteoglycans - cell periphery set and genes/proteins from the TBEVHostDB. Table S8. The list of 154 genes/proteins from the ECM proteoglycans - cell periphery set, that were involved in PPIs network with genes/proteins from TBEVHostDB and their N indexes. Table S9. PPI interactions involving 15 top genes/proteins from the ECM proteoglycans - cell periphery set with Nâ  >â  3. References were checked manually by reviewing the literature. Table S10. PPI interactions involving 5 genes/proteins from the associated_harmful set. References were checked manually by reviewing the literature. (DOCX 13 kb)
Nach ewigen Gesetzen des Daseins Kreise fortsetzen?
Creators: name: Bürkle, Horst
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 19 Nr. 1 (1990): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 19, Heft 1
A general method for calibration of active scanning thermal probes
Creators: name: Tselev, Alexander
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scanning Thermal Microscopy (SThM) is a scanning probe technique aimed at quantitative characterization of local thermal properties at the length scale down to tens of nanometers. With many probe designs and approaches to interpretation of probe responses, there is a need for a universal framework, which would allow probe calibration and comparison of probe performance. Here, we have developed a calibration framework based on an abstracted, formal, probe model for active SThM probes. The calibration can be accomplished through measurements with two or three calibration samples. Requirements to calibration samples are described with examples of structures of suitable samples identified in published literature. A link to a published experimental work indirectly verifying the proposed procedure is provided. The calibration does not require knowledge of internal probe properties and yields a small and universal set of parameters that can be used to quantify thermal resistance presented to the probe by samples as well as to characterize active-mode SThM probes of any type and at any measurement frequency. We have illustrated how the probe calibration parameters can be used to guide probe design. We have also analyzed when the calibration approach can be used directly to measure thermal conductivity of unknown samples.
description: 39 pages, 9 figures in the main text, 1 figure in the Supporting Information
Non-Higgsable clusters for 4D F-theory models
Creators: name: Morrison, David R.
name: Taylor, Washington
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze non-Higgsable clusters of gauge groups and matter that can arise at the level of geometry in 4D F-theory models. Non-Higgsable clusters seem to be generic features of F-theory compactifications, and give rise naturally to structures that include the nonabelian part of the standard model gauge group and certain specific types of potential dark matter candidates. In particular, there are nine distinct single nonabelian gauge group factors, and only five distinct products of two nonabelian gauge group factors with matter, including $SU(3) \times SU(2)$, that can be realized through 4D non-Higgsable clusters. There are also more complicated configurations involving more than two gauge factors; in particular, the collection of gauge group factors with jointly charged matter can exhibit branchings, loops, and long linear chains.
description: 35 pages, 3 figures; v2: references added; v3: constraints on two-factor product groups tightened, minor other corrections; v4: references added, some issues clarified in discussion of potential physical relevance
"Auferstehung des Fleisches" im Glauben der Kirche
Creators: name: Schönborn, Christoph
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 19 Nr. 1 (1990): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 19, Heft 1
Controlling plasma distributions as driving forces for ion migration during fs laser writing
Creators: name: Fernandez, Toney Teddy
name: Siegel, Jan
name: Hoyo, Jesus
name: Sotillo, Belen
name: Fernandez, Paloma
name: Solis, Javier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The properties of structures written inside dielectrics with high repetition rate femtosecond lasers are known to depend strongly on the complex interplay of a large number of writing parameters. Recently, ion migration within the laser-excited volume has been identified as a powerful mechanism for changing the local element distribution and producing efficient optical waveguides. In this work it is shown that the transient plasma distribution induced during laser irradiation is a reliable monitor for predicting the final refractive index distribution of the waveguide caused by ion migration. By performing in-situ plasma emission microscopy during the writing process inside a La-phosphate glass it is found that the long axis of the plasma distribution determines the axis of ion migration, being responsible for the local refractive index increase. This observation is also valid when strong positive or negative spherical aberration is induced, greatly deforming the focal volume and inverting the index profile. Even subtle changes in the writing conditions, such as an inversion of the writing direction (quill writing effect), show up in the form of a modified plasma distribution, which manifests as a modified index distribution. Finally, it is shown that the superior control over the waveguide properties employing the slit shaping technique is caused by the more confined plasma distribution produced. The underlying reasons for this unexpected result are discussed in terms of non-linear propagation and heat accumulation.
description: J. Phys. D: Appl. Phys. 48 (2015) 155101
Prior Democratic Exposure and the Development of Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean
Creators: name: Shell, Eli
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: This thesis examines democratic history and the effect it has had on the rise of illiberal and liberal democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean, both quantitatively and qualitatively.  Quantitatively, this study examines the relationships between the prevalence of democratic history and democratic episodes within the regions and current liberal and illiberal democracies in the region. The qualitative work focuses on the cases of Costa Rica, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Illiberal democracies, while still electoral democracies, are characterized by the denial of basic rights and liberties, ignoring constitutional limits of power, frequent use of referendums, and lack of accountability for the executive, but are still electoral democracies. In turn, liberal democracies are defined as those that, in addition to being electoral democracies, also include the protection of constitutional rights, executive accountability, and the executive’s respect of democratic norms. Using a comparative case study approach, this thesis explores the factors that have contributed to the emergence of illiberal or liberal democracy in contemporary Latin America, focusing in particular on democratic legacies and the impact they have had on the development of democratic institutions. Drawing on a range of scholarly sources, this thesis argues that while the nature of contemporary democratic regimes in Latin America and the Caribbean is a complex and multi-faceted phenomenon, there is a need for scholars to focus more on the democratic histories of nations as a crucial explanatory factor. The thesis concludes with a discussion of the implications of the study's findings for academics and future research regarding democratic consolidation and development in Latin America, the Caribbean, and beyond.
Effects of Tobacco Smoke Exposure on Asthma Prevalence and Medical Care Use in North Carolina Middle School Children
Creators: name: Yeatts, Karin
name: Loomis, Dana
name: Sturm, Jesse J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: Objectives. We sought to determine the effects of exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS) and childhood cigarette smoking on asthma symptoms among middle school children in North Carolina.
Der Glaube an die Auferstehung im Alten Testament
Creators: name: Rebić, Adalbert
Publisher: name: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio
Year: 2022

description: Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Bd. 19 Nr. 1 (1990): Internationale katholische Zeitschrift Communio, Band 19, Heft 1
Effects of WIC Participation on Children’s Use of Oral Health Services
Creators: name: Rozier, R. Gary
name: Vann, William F.
name: Kotch, Jonathan B.
name: Lee, Jessica Y.
name: Norton, Edward C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: Objectives. We estimated the effects of the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) on dental services use by Medicaid children in North Carolina.
Forming equatorial rings around dying stars
Creators: name: Akashi, Muhammad
name: Sabach, Efrat
name: Yogev, Ohad
name: Soker, Noam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We suggest that clumpy-dense outflowing equatorial rings around evolved giant stars, such as in supernova 1987A and the Necklace planetary nebula, are formed by bipolar jets that compress gas toward the equatorial plane. The jets are launched from an accretion disk around a stellar companion. Using the FLASH hydrodynamics numerical code we perform 3D numerical simulations, and show that bipolar jets expanding into a dense spherical shell can compress gas toward the equatorial plane and lead to the formation of an expanding equatorial ring. Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities in the interaction region break the ring to clumps. Under the assumption that the same ring-formation mechanism operates in massive stars and in planetary nebulae, we find this mechanism to be more promising for ring formation than mass loss through the second Lagrangian point. The jets account also for the presence of a bipolar nebula accompanying many of the rings.
description: Revision after referee report
The Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance
Creators: name: Najafizadeh, Hossein
name: Najafizadeh.org
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021

description: Max Born Natural Philosophy of Cause and Chance
Full Version is available on Amazon under Najafizadeh.org or Hossein Najafizadeh under:
ISBN- 978-1-7331083-6-2
title: Shapeshifting in the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula): Morphological and biomechanical adaptations and the potential costs of a failed hunting cycle
Creators: name: Durak, Grażyna M.
name: Speck, Thomas
name: Poppinga, Simon
Publisher: name: Frontiers Media S.A.
Year: 2022

description: The evolutionary roots of carnivory in the Venus flytrap (Dionaea muscipula) stem from a defense response to plant injury caused by, e.g., herbivores. Dionaea muscipula aka. Darwin’s most wonderful plant underwent extensive modification of leaves into snap-traps specialized for prey capture. Even the tiny seedlings of the Venus flytrap already produce fully functional, millimeter-sized traps. The trap size increases as the plant matures, enabling capture of larger prey. The movement of snap-traps is very fast (~100–300 ms) and is actuated by a combination of changes in the hydrostatic pressure of the leaf tissue with the release of prestress (embedded energy), triggering a snap-through of the trap lobes. This instability phenomenon is facilitated by the double curvature of the trap lobes. In contrast, trap reopening is a slower process dependent on trap size and morphology, heavily reliant on turgor and/or cell growth. Once a prey item is caught, the trap reconfigures its shape, seals itself off and forms a digestive cavity allowing the plant to release an enzymatic cocktail to draw nutrition from its captive. Interestingly, a failed attempt to capture prey can come at a heavy cost: the trap can break during reopening, thus losing its functionality. In this mini-review, we provide a detailed account of morphological adaptations and biomechanical processes involved in the trap movement during D. muscipula hunting cycle, and discuss possible reasons for and consequences of trap breakage. We also provide a brief introduction to the biological aspects underlying plant motion and their evolutionary background.
Localized systems coupled to small baths: from A$_{nderson}$ to Z$_{eno}$
Creators: name: Huse, D. A.
name: Nandkishore, R.
name: Pietracaprina, F.
name: Ros, V.
name: Scardicchio, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate what happens if an Anderson localized system is coupled to a small bath, with a discrete spectrum, when the coupling between system and bath is specially chosen so as to never localize the bath. We find that the effect of the bath on localization in the system is a non-monotonic function of the coupling between system and bath. At weak couplings, the bath facilitates transport by allowing the system to 'borrow' energy from the bath. But above a certain coupling the bath produces localization, because of an orthogonality catastrophe, whereby the bath 'dresses' the system and hence suppresses the hopping matrix element. We call this last regime the regime of "Zeno-localization", since the physics of this regime is akin to the quantum Zeno effect, where frequent measurements of the position of a particle impede its motion. We confirm our results by numerical exact diagonalization.
Fatal Occupational Injury Rates in Southern and Non-Southern States, by Race and Hispanic Ethnicity
Creators: name: Bena, James
name: Bailer, A. John
name: Richardson, David B.
name: Loomis, Dana
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: Objectives. We investigated fatal occupational injury rates in the United States by race and Hispanic ethnicity during the period 1990–1996.
Comparing and Evaluating Multivariate Time-Series Forecasting Methods Using A Single Person Ecological Momentary Assessment
Creators: name: Xue, Keyi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: This paper aims to identify the optimal multivariate time-series forecasting methods for Ecological Momentary Assessment data analysis. The data consists of patients’ repeated responses to the same extensive survey over time, which can be overwhelming and insufficient. Hence, we propose to autofill the survey answers with predicted values using the forecasting method that yields the most accurate predictions. We evaluated the out-of-bag prediction error of four existing time-series methods and a newly implemented penalized vector autoregression method. The results indicated that the original non-penalized vector autoregression method had the best performance. Therefore, we could potentially apply this method for survey answer predictions in the future for ecological momentary assessment data collection.
Additional file 1 of The effectiveness of spawning habitat creation or enhancement for substrate-spawning temperate fish: a systematic review
Creators: name: Taylor, Jessica
name: Rytwinski, Trina
name: Bennett, Joseph
name: Smokorowski, Karen
name: Lapointe, Nicolas
name: Janusz, Richard
name: Clarke, Keith
name: Tonn, Bill
name: Walsh, Jessica
name: Cooke, Steven
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: Additional file 1. Database literature search strategies and results.
É proibido proibir:  The Relationship between State Censorship and the Countercultural Musical Movement of Tropicália during the Brazilian Military Dictatorship of 1964-1985
Creators: name: Ferreira Patrocinio, Melissa
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: This paper focuses on the connection between the state censorship Brazilian military dictatorship of 1964-1985 and the countercultural musical movement of Tropicália from 1968 to 1972. I analyze the background and world of Gilberto Gil, Caetano Veloso, and Gal Costa to answer the central research questions, first, what made Tropicália seem subversive, and did it actually amount to a legitimate threat to the regime’s sovereignty? Provided that the government targeted and censored the Tropicalistas, clearly, the government was wary of the resistance that their work could inspire, but the extent to which these preoccupations were warranted is less obvious. Second, if Tropicália was truly a political threat, were censorship strategies effective in quelling the movement as a tool of resistance?
Stable Asymptotically Free Extensions (SAFEs) of the Standard Model
Creators: name: Holdom, Bob
name: Ren, Jing
name: Zhang, Chen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider possible extensions of the standard model that are not only completely asymptotically free, but are such that the UV fixed point is completely UV attractive. All couplings flow towards a set of fixed ratios in the UV. Motivated by low scale unification, semi-simple gauge groups with elementary scalars in various representations are explored. The simplest model is a version of the Pati-Salam model. The Higgs boson is truly elementary but dynamical symmetry breaking from strong interactions may be needed at the unification scale. A hierarchy problem, much reduced from grand unified theories, is still in need of a solution.
description: 26 pages. Published version, typos corrected
The Effect of Maternal Iron Deficiency on Infant Neurodevelopmental Outcomes
Creators: name: McDonald, Mia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Iron deficiency anemia (IDA), defined as low levels of iron leading to the dysfunction of red blood cells, is the world’s most prevalent nutritional disorder.1 Although IDA can occur throughout the lifespan, women at childbearing age are at higher risk due to increased nutritional demands during pregnancy.2 There is significant evidence that IDA during gestation can lead to adverse pregnancy outcomes, such as increased maternal sickness, low birthweight, preterm birth, and intrauterine birth restriction.2 However, whether gestational IDA has on infant neurodevelopmental outcomes is an often debated topic. This project conducted a literature review using the search engine PubMed to evaluate existing literature on the association between maternal iron deficiency and scores on tests designed to evaluate neurodevelopment in infants aged forty days to eighteen months. The results achieved on neurodevelopmental assessments in iron-sufficient groups were significantly higher than those from iron-deficient groups when tests were conducted on infants twelve months or older. However, when infants were tested prior to twelve months, there were no significant differences in iron-sufficient and iron-deficient groups. These results suggest that maternal iron-deficiency has an impact on long-term neurodevelopmental machinery.
Project D.A.R.E. Outcome Effectiveness Revisited
Creators: name: West, Steven L.
name: O’Neal, Keri K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: Objectives. We provide an updated meta-analysis on the effectiveness of Project D.A.R.E. in preventing alcohol, tobacco, and illicit drug use among school-aged youths.