cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Harnessing the strength of families to prevent social problems and promote adolescent well-being
Creators: name: Jensen, Todd M.
name: Lippold, Melissa A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: The family context exerts notable influence on many domains of adolescent development and well-being. Recent research indicates that the family has the power not only to help youth get back on course after problems emerge, but that the family can also play a critical role in preventing problems for youth by reducing the severity of a problem or mitigating its occurrence. The purpose of this paper is to outline the promise and challenges of family-based approaches to prevention in social work practice. Research and theory have identified numerous risk and protective factors in the family. Prevention programs that address these risk and protective factors have shown strong evidence of reducing youth risky behavior. Program effects vary based on the strength of program implementation. Agencies often face barriers to implementation including maintaining model fidelity, engaging families, and sustaining funding. Implications for practice and policy are discussed.
Data from: Citizen science can complement professional invasive plant surveys and improve estimates of suitable habitat
Creators: name: Dimson, Monica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Citizen science
habitat suitability modeling
sampling bias
Invasive species

description: Aim: Citizen science is a cost-effective potential source of invasive species occurrence data. However, data quality issues due to unstructured sampling approaches may discourage the use of these observations by science and conservation professionals. This study explored the utility of low-structure iNaturalist citizen science data in invasive plant monitoring. We first examined the prevalence of invasive taxa in iNaturalist plant observations and sampling biases associated with those data. Using four invasive species as examples, we then compared iNaturalist and professional agency observations and used the two datasets to model suitable habitat for each species.

Location: Hawaiʻi, USA

Methods: To estimate the prevalence of invasive plant data, we compared the number of species and observations recorded in iNaturalist to botanical checklists for Hawaiʻi. Sampling bias was quantified along gradients of site accessibility, protective status, and vegetation disturbance using a bias index. Habitat suitability for four invasive species was modeled in Maxent, using observations from iNaturalist, professional agencies, and stratified subsets of iNaturalist data.

Results: iNaturalist plant observations were biased toward invasive species, which were frequently recorded in areas with higher road/trail density and vegetation disturbance. Professional observations of four example invasive species tended to occur in less accessible, native-dominated sites. Habitat suitability models based on iNaturalist versus professional data showed moderate overlap and different distributions of suitable habitat across vegetation disturbance classes. Stratifying iNaturalist observations had little effect on how suitable habitat was distributed for the species modeled in this study.

Main conclusions: Opportunistic iNaturalist observations have the potential to complement and expand professional invasive plant monitoring, which we found was often affected by inverse sampling biases. Invasive species represented a high proportion of iNaturalist plant observations, and were recorded in environments that were not captured by professional surveys. Combining the datasets thus led to more comprehensive estimates of suitable habitat.
Higher Spin Currents in Wolf Space for Generic N
Creators: name: Ahn, Changhyun
name: Kim, Hyunsu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We obtain the 16 higher spin currents with spins (1,3/2,3/2,2),(3/2, 2,2, 5/2), (3/2,2,2, 5/2) and (2,5/2,5/2,3) in the N=4 superconformal Wolf space coset SU(N+2)/[SU(N) x SU(2) x U(1)]. The antisymmetric second rank tensor occurs in the quadratic spin-1/2 Kac-Moody currents of the higher spin-1 current. Each higher spin-3/2 current contains the above antisymmetric second rank tensor and three symmetric (and traceless) second rank tensors (i.e. three antisymmetric almost complex structures contracted by the above antisymmetric tensor) in the product of spin-1/2 and spin-1 Kac-Moody currents respectively. Moreover, the remaining higher spin currents of spins 2, 5/2, 3 contain the combinations of the (symmetric) metric, the three almost complex structures, the antisymmetric tensor or the three symmetric tensors in the multiple product of the above Kac-Moody currents as well as the composite currents from the large N=4 nonlinear superconformal algebra.
description: 49 pages, The V^e in the last equation of page 10 corrected and the epsilon^{ijk} inserted at the second equation of page 34 and to appear in JHEP
Barriers and facilitators of healthcare provider payment reform
Creators: name: Ndayishimiye, Costase
name: Tambor, Marzena
name: Dubas-Jakóbczyk, Katarzyna
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Public Health
subject: Public Policy
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Public Affairs, Public Policy and Public Administration
subject: Barriers
subject: facilitators
subject: healthcare provider
subject: health reform
subject: payment reform

description: A scoping literature review protocol
Confirmatory Factor Analysis of a Measure of Comprehensive Airman Fitness
Creators: name: Jensen, Todd M.
name: Martin, James A.
name: Bowen, Gary L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The U.S. Air Force has committed significant resources to implementing policies and programs consistent with the Department of Defense's concept of total force fitness. A 12-item measure of Comprehensive Airman Fitness was proposed and empirically examined, using component measures of mental fitness, physical fitness, social fitness, and spiritual fitness from the Support and Resiliency Inventory. Results confirm that the components of airman fitness can be conceptualized as pieces of a total fitness construct and that the measure is invariant across subgroups. Implications for policy and practice are discussed, and an agenda for future research is presented.
Real-Time and Imaginary-Time Quantum Hierarchal Fokker-Planck Equations
Creators: name: Tanimura, Yoshitaka
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider a quantum mechanical system represented in phase space (referred to hereafter as "Wigner space"), coupled to a harmonic oscillator bath. We derive quantum hierarchal Fokker-Planck (QHFP) equations not only in real time, but also in imaginary time, which represents an inverse temperature. This is an extension of a previous work, in which we studied a spin-boson system, to a Brownian system. It is shown that the QHFP in real time obtained from a correlated thermal equilibrium state of the total system possess the same form as those obtained from a factorized initial state. A modified terminator for the hierarchal equations of motion is introduced to treat the non-Markovian case more efficiently. Using the imaginary-time QHFP, numerous thermodynamic quantities, including the free energy, entropy, internal energy, heat capacity, and susceptibility can be evaluated for any potential. These equations allow us to treat non-Markovian, non-perturbative system-bath interactions at finite temperature. Through numerical integration of the real-time QHFP for a harmonic system, we obtain the equilibrium distributions, the auto-correlation function, and the first- and second-order response functions. These results are compared with analytically exact results for the same quantities. This provides a critical test of the formalism for a non-factorized thermal state, and elucidates the roles of fluctuation, dissipation, non-Markovian effects, and system-bath coherence. Employing numerical solutions of the imaginary-time QHFP, we demonstrate the capability of this method to obtain thermodynamic quantities for any potential surface. It is shown that both types of QHFP equations can produce numerical results of any desired accuracy.
Vpliv psihološke razdalje na zaznavanje podnebnih tveganj: primer analize preferenc slovenskih potrošnikov pri prenovi in opremljanju stanovanj
Creators: name: Slavec, Ana
name: Sajinčič, Nežka
name: Primožič, Lea
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: anketna raziskava
stanovanje
podnebne spremembe
psihološka razdalja
trajnostna potrošnja

description: Zavedanje o posledicah našega življenjskega sloga na podnebne spremembe se nenehno krepi, a prihaja do razkoraka v ozaveščenosti med različnimi družbenimi skupinami, saj so med njimi razlike v stopnji izpostavljenosti in presoje povezanih tveganj. Teorija konstrualne ravni (angl. Construal Level Theory) ta pojav pojasnjuje skozi koncept psihološke razdalje, ki se kaže v časovni prostorski, družbeni in hipotetični dimenziji. Raziskava temelji na anketi, izvedeni na spletnem panelu reprezentativnem za slovensko odraslo populacijo, in preučuje vpliv generacijskih in drugih pristranosti pri zaznavanju podnebnih groženj ter odražanje teh v prizadevanjih za zmanjšanje ogljičnega odtisa. Posebej analiziramo pomembnost prijaznosti do okolja kot dejavnika pri prenavljanju in opremljanju stanovanj. Na podlagi rezultatov ocenjujemo vpliv okoljske ozaveščenosti in psihološke pristranosti na preference in izbire potrošnikov ter razpravljamo o prilagajanju komunikacijskih sporočil, s ciljem spodbujanja trajnostnejše potrošnje med različnimi demografskimi skupinami.
Optimization of collisional Feshbach cooling of an ultracold nondegenerate gas
Creators: name: Nuske, Marlon
name: Tiesinga, Eite
name: Mathey, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We optimize a collision-induced cooling process for ultracold atoms in the nondegenerate regime. It makes use of a Feshbach resonance, instead of rf radiation in evaporative cooling, to selectively expel hot atoms from a trap. Using functional minimization we analytically show that for the optimal cooling process the resonance energy must be tuned such that it linearly follows the temperature. Here, optimal cooling is defined as maximizing the phase-space density after a fixed cooling duration. The analytical results are confirmed by numerical Monte-Carlo simulations. In order to simulate more realistic experimental conditions, we show that background losses do not change our conclusions, while additional non-resonant two-body losses make a lower initial resonance energy with non-linear dependence on temperature preferable.
description: 7 pages, 7 figures
Additional file 4: of Self-reported impulsivity in women with borderline personality disorder: the role of childhood maltreatment severity and emotion regulation difficulties
Creators: name: Krause-Utz, Annegret
name: Erol, Ezgi
name: Brousianou, Athina
name: Cackowski, Sylvia
name: Paret, Christian
name: Ende, Gabriele
name: Bernet Elzinga
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Table S4. Descriptive values and results of the MANOVA for the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS) in patients with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), subgroups of patients with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Substance Use Disorder (SUD) and Healthy Controls (HC). (DOCX 22 kb)
The IGIMF and other IMFs in dSphs: the case of Sagittarius
Creators: name: Vincenzo, Fiorenzo
name: Matteucci, Francesca
name: Recchi, Simone
name: Calura, Francesco
name: McWilliam, Andrew
name: Lanfranchi, Gustavo A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have studied the effects of various initial mass functions (IMFs) on the chemical evolution of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy (Sgr). In particular, we tested the effects of the integrated galactic initial mass function (IGIMF) on various predicted abundance patterns. The IGIMF depends on the star formation rate and metallicity and predicts less massive stars in a regime of low star formation, as it is the case in dwarf spheroidals. We adopted a detailed chemical evolution model following the evolution of $α$-elements, Fe and Eu, and assuming the currently best set of stellar yields. We also explored different yield prescriptions for the Eu, including production from neutron star mergers. Although the uncertainties still present in the stellar yields and data prevent us from drawing firm conclusions, our results suggest that the IGIMF applied to Sgr predicts lower [$α$/Fe] ratios than classical IMFs and lower [hydrostatic/explosive] $α$-element ratios, in qualitative agreement with observations. In our model, the observed high [Eu/O] ratios in Sgr is due to reduced O production, resulting from the IGIMF mass cutoff of the massive oxygen-producing stars, as well as to the Eu yield produced in neutron star mergers, a more promising site than core-collapse supernovae, although many uncertainties are still present in the Eu nucleosynthesis. We find that a model, similar to our previous calculations, based on the late addition of iron from the Type Ia supernova time-delay (necessary to reproduce the shape of [X/Fe] versus [Fe/H] relations) but also including the reduction of massive stars due to the IGIMF, better reproduces the observed abundance ratios in Sgr than models without the IGIMF.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 16 pages, 16 figures; typos fixed and references updated (v2); Fig. 16 revised (v3); version matching the one appearing on the electronic Journal
A Measure of Comprehensive Airman Fitness: Construct Validation and Invariance Across Air Force Service Components
Creators: name: Bowen, Gary L.
name: Jensen, Todd M.
name: Martin, James A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This article addresses the construct validity of an online assessment measure intended to reflect the biopsychosocial and spiritual fitness of U.S. Air Force (AF) members, defined as Comprehensive Airman Fitness. The analysis presented examines the extent to which this measure and the associated validation model are invariant across three AF components: active duty personnel, members of the Air National Guard/AF Reserve, and AF civilian employees. Our results indicate that total fitness (i.e., second-order factor), its four subcomponents (i.e., first-order factors), and the resiliency construct associated with role performance are invariant across service components at the configural, metric, and scalar measurement levels. Further, the strong positive association between total fitness and resiliency is statistically indistinguishable across all AF components. Limitations and implications are discussed.
Revised Mass-to-Light Ratios For Nearby Galaxy Groups and Clusters
Creators: name: Shan, Yutong
name: McDonald, Michael
name: Courteau, Stephane
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present a detailed investigation of the cluster stellar mass-to-light (M*/L) ratio and cumulative stellar masses, derived on a galaxy-by-galaxy basis, for 12 massive (M500 ~ 10^14 - 10^15 Msun), nearby clusters with available optical imaging data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Data Release 10 and X-ray data from the Chandra X-ray Observatory. Our method involves a statistical cluster membership using both photometric and spectroscopic redshifts when available to maximize completeness whilst minimizing contamination effects. We show that different methods of estimating the stellar mass-to-light ratio from observed photometry result in systematic discrepancies in the total stellar masses and average mass-to-light ratios of cluster galaxies. Nonetheless, all conversion methodologies point to a lack of correlation between M*/Li and total cluster mass, even though low-mass groups contain relatively more blue galaxies. We also find no statistically significant correlation between M*/Li and the fraction of blue galaxies. For the mass range covered by our sample, the assumption of a Chabrier IMF yields an integrated M*/Li = 1.7 +/- 0.2 Msun/Lsun, a lower value than used in most similar studies, though consistent with the study of low-mass galaxy groups by Leauthaud et al. (2012). A light (diet) Salpeter IMF would imply a ~60% increase in M*/Li.
description: 16 pages, 9 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
The merger rate of galaxies in the Illustris Simulation: a comparison with observations and semi-empirical models
Creators: name: Rodriguez-Gomez, Vicente
name: Genel, Shy
name: Vogelsberger, Mark
name: Sijacki, Debora
name: Pillepich, Annalisa
name: Sales, Laura V.
name: Torrey, Paul
name: Snyder, Greg
name: Nelson, Dylan
name: Springel, Volker
name: Ma, Chung-Pei
name: Hernquist, Lars
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have constructed merger trees for galaxies in the Illustris Simulation by directly tracking the baryonic content of subhalos. These merger trees are used to calculate the galaxy-galaxy merger rate as a function of descendant stellar mass, progenitor stellar mass ratio, and redshift. We demonstrate that the most appropriate definition for the mass ratio of a galaxy-galaxy merger consists in taking both progenitor masses at the time when the secondary progenitor reaches its maximum stellar mass. Additionally, we avoid effects from `orphaned' galaxies by allowing some objects to `skip' a snapshot when finding a descendant, and by only considering mergers which show a well-defined `infall' moment. Adopting these definitions, we obtain well-converged predictions for the galaxy-galaxy merger rate with the following main features, which are qualitatively similar to the halo-halo merger rate except for the last one: a strong correlation with redshift that evolves as $\sim (1+z)^{2.4-2.8}$, a power law with respect to mass ratio, and an increasing dependence on descendant stellar mass, which steepens significantly for descendant stellar masses greater than $\sim 2 \times 10^{11} \, {\rm M_{\odot}}$. These trends are consistent with observational constraints for medium-sized galaxies ($M_{\ast} \gtrsim 10^{10} \, {\rm M_{\odot}}$), but in tension with some recent observations of the close pair fraction for massive galaxies ($M_{\ast} \gtrsim 10^{11} \, {\rm M_{\odot}}$), which report a nearly constant or decreasing evolution with redshift. Finally, we provide a fitting function for the galaxy-galaxy merger rate which is accurate over a wide range of stellar masses, progenitor mass ratios, and redshifts.
description: 17 pages, 10 figures, MNRAS published. The official Illustris website can be found at http://www.illustris-project.org/
title: Australia's Seabed Map 2023
Creators: name: A., Leplastrier
name: J., Smith
name: A., Leplastrier
name: D., Arnold
Publisher: name: Commonwealth of Australia (Geoscience Australia)
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: EARTH SCIENCES
subject: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT
subject: OCEANOGRAPHY
subject: Bathymetry
subject: Seafloor map
subject: 1 : 250, 000
subject: Seabed mapping
subject: Topography
subject: Depth
subject: Earth Science | Oceans | Bathymetry/Seafloor Topography | Bathymetry
subject: Published_External

description: The map and underlying digital dataset provide national and regional-scale context for a wider variety of applications, including offshore industries, area-based environmental management, scientific research and public education. Australia’s Seabed Map is based on the revised AusBathyTopo 250m (Australia) 2023 grid (Beaman, 2023), the most comprehensive, continental-scale compilation of bathymetry data in the Australian region. The map extends across a vast area from 92°E to 172° E and 8°S to 60° S. This includes areas adjacent to the Australian continent and Tasmania, and surrounding Macquarie Island and the Australian Territories of Norfolk Island, Christmas Island, and Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Australia's marine jurisdiction offshore from the territory of Heard and McDonald Islands and the Australian Antarctic Territory are not included. The new map provides a complete three-dimensional picture of the seafloor and is a significant improvement since it was last revised in 2009. In particular, the map incorporates new innovations such as the use of earth observation data (satellite based) produced by Digital Earth Australia to improve coastline definition and present a seamless transition between land and sea. The data is compiled from 1582 individual surveys using multibeam echosounders, single-beam echosounders, LiDAR, or 3D seismic first returns, as well as higher-resolution regional compilations, and other source data including Electronic Navigation Charts and satellite derived bathymetry. The new map represents decades of data collection, analysis, investment and collaboration from Australia’s seabed mapping community. The 250 m resolution is only supported where direct bathymetric observations are sufficiently dense (e.g. where swath bathymetry data or digitised chart data exist). In many regions, this 250 m grid size is far in excess of the optimal grid size for some of the input data used. The AusBathyTopo250m grid and higher-resolution regional datasets are available on the AusSeabed Marine Data Portal as the AusBathyTopo Series. This map is not suitable for use as an aid to navigation, or to replace any products produced by the Australian Hydrographic Office. Medium: Digital PDF download.
Partnering with Industry for Authentic Assessment: Making our Graduates Workplace Ready.
Creators: name: Wilkinson, Janine
name: Rayment, Sarah
name: Loughlin, Michael
name: Bowater, Richard
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: Employability
Higher Education
Authentic Assessment
Partnering with Industry
University Assessment

description: An article published in THE Campus, sharing best practice when integrating authentic assessment in HE. The article gives a brief background about how to make learning and assessment relevant to employment in the biosciences and then provides ideas on how to foster links with industy.
Stepfamily Relationship Quality and Stepchildren’s Depression in Adolescence and Adulthood
Creators: name: Harris, Kathleen Mullan
name: Jensen, Todd M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Before reaching adulthood, one third of all youth in the United States will reside in a stepfamily household—a familial context marked by distinct challenges. Relatively few studies have explored family processes that promote youth adjustment in stepfamilies, and even fewer studies have examined these links across adolescence, emerging adulthood, and beyond. To address these gaps, we use a nationally representative sample of 758 adolescent stepchildren to examine the concurrent and long-term influence of mother–child, stepfather–child, nonresident father–child, and stepcouple relationship quality on stepchildren’s depression across three stages of development: adolescence, emerging adulthood, and young adulthood. Results from longitudinal structural equation modeling indicate that higher quality mother–child and stepfather–child relationships are directly associated with reductions in depression during adolescence and indirectly associated with reductions in depression during emerging and young adulthood via prior levels of depression; higher quality stepcouple relationships are directly associated with reductions in depression during emerging and young adulthood.
Magnetic Frustration in Lead Pyrochlores
Creators: name: Hallas, A. M.
name: Arevalo-Lopez, A. M.
name: Sharma, A. Z.
name: Munsie, T.
name: Attfield, J. P.
name: Wiebe, C. R.
name: Luke, G. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The rich phase diagrams of magnetically frustrated pyrochlores have maintained a high level of interest over the past 20 years. To experimentally explore these phase diagrams requires a means of tuning the relevant interactions. One approach to achieve this is chemical pressure, that is, varying the size of the non-magnetic cation. Here, we report on a new family of lead-based pyrochlores A$_2$Pb$_2$O$_7$ (A = Pr, Nd, Gd), which we have characterized with magnetic susceptibility and specific heat. Lead is the largest known possible B-site cation for the pyrochlore lattice. Thus, these materials significantly expand the phase space of the frustrated pyrochlores. Pr$_2$Pb$_2$O$_7$ has an absence of long-range magnetic order down to 400 mK and a spin ice-like heat capacity anomaly at 1.2 K. Thus, Pr$_2$Pb$_2$O$_7$ is a candidate for a quantum spin ice state, despite weaker exchange. Nd$_2$Pb$_2$O$_7$ transitions to a magnetically ordered state at 0.41 K. The Weiss temperature for Nd$_2$Pb$_2$O$_7$ is $θ_{\text{CW}}$ = $-$0.06 K, indicating close competition between ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic interactions. Gd$_2$Pb$_2$O$_7$ is a Heisenberg antiferromagnet that transitions to long-range magnetic order at 0.81 K, in spite of significant site mixing. Below its ordering transition, we find a $T^{3/2}$ heat capacity dependence in Gd$_2$Pb$_2$O$_7$, confirmation of a ground state that is distinct from other gadolinium pyrochlores. These lead-based pyrochlores provide insight into the effects of weakened exchange on highly frustrated lattices and represent further realizations of several exotic magnetic ground states which can test theoretical models.
description: 10 pages, 13 figures, published in PRB
A Review of lean methodology application and its integration in medical device new product introduction processes
Creators: name: Slattery, Owen
name: Trubetskaya, Anna
name: MOORE, SEAN
name: McDermott, Olivia
Publisher: name: University of Limerick
Year: 2022
Subjects: Engineering

description: The purpose of this study is to review the Lean tool application and its utilisation in medical device design and the new product introduction process to establish the benefits and best practices for its integration with existing new product introduction processes. A review of the literature on the current state of medical device New Product Introduction (NPI) processes is completed along with a comprehensive review of the literature on the history and development of Lean NPI. The review indicates that Lean can be combined with the predominant NPI execution tools, Stage-Gate and Concurrent Engineering within the medical device industry to achieve a best-in-class continuous improvement methodology within the NPI process. This integration eliminates waste, focusses on customer value, and ultimately reduces cost and lead time to market. This review highlights for the first time the main challenges and issues with Lean in the medical device sector NPI processes, identifying possible future strands of research. Limitations of the current review are that despite the heavy emphasis placed on Lean manufacturing processes, comparatively little emphasis is placed on the use of Lean in the medical device NPI process. Future longitudinal case studies on case study application of Lean in medical device NPI processes would be useful. This study has implications for identifying best practices for Lean in NPI in the device industry, improving what is considered state-of-the-art for the introduction of devices into the public domain.
The grammar of persuasion: a meta-analytic review disconfirming the role of nouns as linguistic cues of subsequent behavior
Creators: name: Witkowska, Marta
name: Dołżycka, Joanna
name: Suitner, Caterina
name: Formanowicz, Magdalena
Publisher: name: Universität Ulm
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Nouns
subject: Linguistic cues
subject: Behavior
subject: Identity
subject: Replication
subject: Meta-analysis
subject: Meta-science
subject: DDC 150 / Psychology

description: Recent discoveries suggest that nouns, as a word class, exhibit a greater capacity to model real-life behavior. In some previous studies participants prompted with a noun label rather than a semantically corresponding verb ( be a voter vs. vote ) were more likely to vote. However, many attempts to replicate the original results have shown unsuccessful. To shed light on the effectiveness of subtle linguistic manipulations, we conducted a meta-analysis of 28 effect sizes ( N  = 13,376), being an exact or conceptual replications of original studies. Although the average effect was significant ( g  = 0.12), the concurrent diagnostics indicated a low trust in the replicability or stability of the effect. Based on that, we cannot conclude that the greater effectiveness of nouns as cues has been reliably demonstrated. We discuss theoretical prospects involving the verb-action link as well as the self-verification motives. © In Copyright http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Positive Amplitudes In The Amplituhedron
Creators: name: Arkani-Hamed, Nima
name: Hodges, Andrew
name: Trnka, Jaroslav
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The all-loop integrand for scattering amplitudes in planar N = 4 SYM is determined by an "amplitude form" with logarithmic singularities on the boundary of the amplituhedron. In this note we provide strong evidence for a new striking property of the superamplitude, which we conjecture to be true to all loop orders: the amplitude form is positive when evaluated inside the amplituhedron. The statement is sensibly formulated thanks to the natural "bosonization" of the superamplitude associated with the amplituhedron geometry. However this positivity is not manifest in any of the current approaches to scattering amplitudes, and in particular not in the cellulations of the amplituhedron related to on-shell diagrams and the positive grassmannian. The surprising positivity of the form suggests the existence of a "dual amplituhedron" formulation where this feature would be made obvious. We also suggest that the positivity is associated with an extended picture of amplituhedron geometry, with the amplituhedron sitting inside a co-dimension one surface separating "legal" and "illegal" local singularities of the amplitude. We illustrate this in several simple examples, obtaining new expressions for amplitudes not associated with any triangulations, but following in a more invariant manner from a global view of the positive geometry.
description: 27 pages, 10 figures
Polarisation and rheology characterisation of monoolein/water liquid crystal dynamical behaviour during high-viscosity injector extrusion
Creators: name: Darmanin, Connie
name: Babayekhorasani, F
name: Formosa, Andrew
name: Spicer, P
name: Abbey, Brian
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 34
subject: Chemical sciences
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
classificationCode: 40
subject: Engineering
classificationCode: 51
subject: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Hypothesis: The use of monoolein/water mixtures in serial crystallography experiments using high-viscosity injectors (HVI) results in significant departures from equilibrium behaviour. This is expected to include changes in phase, viscosity, and associated flow behaviour. It should be possible to detect these changes, in-situ, using a combination of polarisation and rheology characterisation techniques. Experiments: A systematic study was performed using monoolein, varying the water content to create a range of mixtures. Injection induced phase changes within the HVI flow were established using real-time cross-polarization measurements. Dynamic flow characteristics and viscosity was characterized by particle tracking and rheology. Findings: HVI injection induces deformation and phase changes within monoolein (MO)/water mixtures which can be detected through variations in the transmitted intensity during in-situ polarisation studies. The heterogeneity of the extruded sample results in a highly viscous cubic phase in the central region of the stream and a less viscous lamellar-rich phase at the edges adjacent to the walls. The extent of these variations depends on sample composition and injection conditions. Shear-thinning behaviour and increasing heterogeneity in the vicinity of the capillary walls under dynamic flow conditions. This is the first report observing injection induced dynamical behaviour in MO/water mixtures under realistic flow conditions.
Additional file 5: of Self-reported impulsivity in women with borderline personality disorder: the role of childhood maltreatment severity and emotion regulation difficulties
Creators: name: Krause-Utz, Annegret
name: Erol, Ezgi
name: Brousianou, Athina
name: Cackowski, Sylvia
name: Paret, Christian
name: Ende, Gabriele
name: Bernet Elzinga
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Computational Biology

description: Table S5. Correlations between Scores on the scales. (DOCX 24 kb)
Mid- and Late-Life Divorce and Parents' Perceptions of Emerging Adult Children's Emotional Reactions
Creators: name: Jensen, Todd M.
name: Bowen, Gary L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: A paucity of research exists pertaining to the experiences of emerging adult children in the context of parental divorce. This study uses Paul R. Amato's divorce-stress-adjustment framework to organize a set of predictors that potentially influence parents' perceptions of their emerging adult children's emotional reactions to a divorce. Data come from a nationally representative AARP study, from which we analyzed a sample of 283 parents who experienced a divorce at age 40 years or older. Results indicate that parental gender, nature of contact with the ex-partner, divorce timing, time spent contemplating divorce, a history of parental divorce, and the reason for divorce influence parents' perceptions of their emerging adult children's reaction to the divorce. Implications, limitations, and future direction for research are discussed.
The Impact of Foregrounds on Redshift Space Distortion Measurements With the Highly-Redshifted 21 cm Line
Creators: name: Pober, Jonathan C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The highly redshifted 21 cm line of neutral hydrogen has become recognized as a unique probe of cosmology from relatively low redshifts (z ~ 1) up through the Epoch of Reionization (z ~ 8) and even beyond. To date, most work has focused on recovering the spherically averaged power spectrum of the 21 cm signal, since this approach maximizes the signal-to-noise in the initial measurement. However, like galaxy surveys, the 21 cm signal is affected by redshift space distortions, and is inherently anisotropic between the line-of-sight and transverse directions. A measurement of this anisotropy can yield unique cosmological information, potentially even isolating the matter power spectrum from astrophysical effects. However, in interferometric measurements, foregrounds also have an anisotropic footprint between the line-of-sight and transverse directions: the so-called foreground "wedge". Although foreground subtraction techniques are actively being developed, a "foreground avoidance" approach of simply ignoring contaminated modes has arguably proven most successful to date. In this work, we analyze the effect of this foreground anisotropy in recovering the redshift space distortion signature in 21 cm measurements at both high and intermediate redshifts. We find the foreground wedge corrupts nearly all of the redshift space signal for even the largest proposed EoR experiments (HERA and the SKA), making cosmological information unrecoverable without foreground subtraction. The situation is somewhat improved at lower redshifts, where the redshift-dependent mapping from observed coordinates to cosmological coordinates significantly reduces the size of the wedge. Using only foreground avoidance, we find that a large experiment like CHIME can place non-trivial constraints on cosmological parameters.
description: 9 pages, 5 figures, 4 tables; minor changes to match version accepted by MNRAS
Remarital Chances, Choices, and Economic Consequences: Issues of Social and Personal Welfare
Creators: name: Shafer, Kevin
name: Jensen, Todd M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Many divorced women experience a significant decline in financial, social, physical, and psychological well-being following a divorce. Using data from the NLSY79 (n= 2,520) we compare welfare recipients, mothers, and impoverished women to less marginalized divorcees on remarriage chances. Furthermore, we look at the kinds of men these women marry by focusing on the employment and education of new spouses. Finally, we address how remarriage and spousal quality (as defined by education and employment) impact economic well-being after divorce. Our results show that remarriage has positive economic effects, but that is dependent upon spousal quality. However, such matches are rare among divorced women with children and in poverty. The implications of our results for social welfare issues are discussed.
Unusual ordered phases of highly frustrated magnets: a review
Creators: name: Starykh, Oleg A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We review ground states and excitations of a quantum antiferromagnet on triangular and other frustrated lattices. We pay special attention to the combined effects of magnetic field h, spatial anisotropy R, and spin magnitude S. The focus of the review is on the novel collinear spin density wave and spin nematic states, which are characterized by fully gapped transverse spin excitations with $S^z = \pm 1$. We discuss extensively R-h phase diagram of the antiferromagnet, both in the large-S semiclassical limit and the quantum S=1/2 limit. When possible, we point out connections with experimental findings.
description: 22 pages, 12 figures. This is the originally submitted version of the invited review, to be published in Reports on Progress in Physics in 2015. The link, via DOI, to the accepted and published version of the manuscript, which is updated according to the referees comments, will be provided upon its actual publication
Inundated: An Analysis of Flooded Environmental Disamenities in Eastern North Carolina
Creators: name: Fierros, Christy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Flood events do not impact communities equally and often expose the legacy of public policies, practices, and plans that result in certain communities experiencing more damage after flood events. At the same time, extensive research has shown environmental disamenities (also referred to as Locally Unwanted Land Uses) are often located in Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC) and low-income communities compared to white and wealthier communities. Outside these areas of affluence, BIPOC communities are often exposed to a variety of hazards, whether that be flooding, polluting industries, or a mixture of natural and human-made hazards. Differences in impacts and recovery from disasters can widen societal inequalities. Communities with high social vulnerability (as defined by income, race, age, educational attainment, and other characteristics) typically have a slower recovery trajectory than those with low social vulnerability. There is little known about how communities are impacted from the interaction between environmental hazards (flooding) and human-made hazards (living near polluting industries). In this project, I examine the impact of flooding from Hurricane Matthew (2016) and Hurricane Florence (2018) on four different types of environmental disamenities (hog concentrated feeding operations, solid waste facilities, hazardous waste facilities, and toxic release inventory sites (TRI) in 22 southeastern North Carolina counties and compare the level of social vulnerability of communities with flooded disamenities. The study area is ideal for this analysis because of its extensive flood risk and numerous unwanted land uses, with hog concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) as the most prominent. Through geospatial analysis of disamenities guided by the theoretical frameworks of social vulnerability and environmental justice, I find the odds of the presence of flooded environmental disamenities increases in census block groups for every one unit increase in the social vulnerability score. This demonstrates a relationship between areas of high social vulnerability and the presence of environmental disamenities. Unpacking and addressing these disparities is essential to ensure everyone can live, work, and play in safe and healthy spaces regardless of their demographic characteristics or geography.
Custom CRM development services
Creators: name: Globaldev
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: Looking to unlock the potential of your business with a fully tailored CRM system, designed to improve customer management, streamline workflows, and enhance team productivity? At Globaldev Group, we specialize in building solutions that meet the unique requirements of your business, ensuring long-term success and scalability. Our CRM software development expertise helps businesses optimize their operations for future growth.
The Daugavet property in the Musielak-Orlicz spaces
Creators: name: Kamińska, Anna
name: Kubiak, Damian
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 46B20, 46E30, 47B38

description: We show that among all Musielak-Orlicz function spaces on a $σ$-finite non-atomic complete measure space equipped with either the Luxemburg norm or the Orlicz norm the only spaces with the Daugavet property are $L_1$, $L_{\infty}$, $L_1\oplus_1 L_{\infty}$ and $L_1\oplus_{\infty} L_{\infty}$. We obtain in particular complete characterizations of the Daugavet property in the weighted interpolation spaces, the variable exponent Lebesgue spaces (Nakano spaces) and the Orlicz spaces.
description: 20 pages
The equivariant cohomology rings of regular nilpotent Hessenberg varieties in Lie type A: a research announcement
Creators: name: Abe, Hiraku
name: Harada, Megumi
name: Horiguchi, Tatsuya
name: Masuda, Mikiya
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $n$ be a fixed positive integer and $h: \{1,2,...,n\} \rightarrow \{1,2,...,n\}$ a Hessenberg function. The main result of this manuscript is to give a systematic method for producing an explicit presentation by generators and relations of the equivariant and ordinary cohomology rings (with $\mathbb{Q}$ coefficients) of any regular nilpotent Hessenberg variety $\mathrm{Hess}(h)$ in type A. Specifically, we give an explicit algorithm, depending only on the Hessenberg function $h$, which produces the $n$ defining relations $\{f_{h(j),j}\}_{j=1}^n$ in the equivariant cohomology ring. Our result generalizes known results: for the case $h=(2,3,4,...,n,n)$, which corresponds to the Peterson variety $\mathrm{Pet}_n$, we recover the presentation of $H^*_S(\mathrm{Pet}_n)$ given previously by Fukukawa, Harada, and Masuda. Moreover, in the case $h=(n,n,...,n)$, for which the corresponding regular nilpotent Hessenberg variety is the full flag variety $\mathrm{Flags}(\mathbb{C}^n)$, we can explicitly relate the generators of our ideal with those in the usual Borel presentation of the cohomology ring of $\mathrm{Flags}(\mathbb{C}^n)$. The proof of our main theorem includes an argument that the restriction homomorphism $H^*_T(\mathrm{Flags}(\mathbb{C}^n)) \to H^*_S(\mathrm{Hess}(h))$ is surjective. In this research announcement, we briefly recount the context and state our results; we also give a sketch of our proofs and conclude with a brief discussion of open questions. A manuscript containing more details and full proofs is forthcoming.
description: 8 pages. Expository changes based on comments by a referee
Additional file 6: of Self-reported impulsivity in women with borderline personality disorder: the role of childhood maltreatment severity and emotion regulation difficulties
Creators: name: Krause-Utz, Annegret
name: Erol, Ezgi
name: Brousianou, Athina
name: Cackowski, Sylvia
name: Paret, Christian
name: Ende, Gabriele
name: Bernet Elzinga
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Science Policy
subject: 111714 Mental Health
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Conditional process analysis without the subscale Urgency. (DOCX 13 kb)
Notes on the BMS group in three dimensions: II. Coadjoint representation
Creators: name: Barnich, Glenn
name: Oblak, Blagoje
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The coadjoint representation of the BMS$_3$ group, which governs the covariant phase space of three-dimensional asymptotically flat gravity, is investigated. In particular, we classify coadjoint BMS$_3$ orbits and show that intrinsic angular momentum is free of supertranslation ambiguities. Finally, the link with induced representations upon geometric quantization is discussed.
description: 22 pages, references added, accepted for publication in JHEP. v3: Minor typos corrected, matches published version
Electric field of a point charge in truncated hyperbolic motion
Creators: name: Franklin, Jerrold
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Classical Physics (physics.class-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We find the electric field of a point charge in `truncated hyperbolic motion', in which the charge moves at a constant velocity followed by motion with a constant acceleration in its instantaneous rest frame. The same Lienard-Wiechert formula holds for the acceleration phase and the constant velocity phase of the charge's motion. The only modification is that the formula giving the retarded time is different for the two motions, and the acceleration is zero for the constant velocity motion. The electric field lines are continuous as the retarded time increases through the transition time between constant velocity and accelerated motion. As the transition time approaches negative infinity the electric field develops a delta function contribution that has been introduced by others as necessary to preserve Gauss's law for the electric field.
description: The discussion has been modified and some equations added, with no change in the results or the figures