cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The XMM spectral catalog of SDSS optically selected Seyfert 2 galaxies
Creators: name: Koulouridis, E.
name: Georgantopoulos, I.
name: Loukaidou, G.
name: Corral, A.
name: Akylas, A.
name: Koutoulidis, L.
name: Jiménez-Andrade, E. F.
name: Tavares, J. León
name: Ranalli, P.
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 present an X-ray spectroscopic study of optically selected (SDSS) Seyfert 2 (Sy2) galaxies. The goal is to study the obscuration of Sy2 galaxies beyond the local universe, using good quality X-ray spectra in combination with high S/N optical spectra for their robust classification. We analyzed all available XMM-Newton archival observations of narrow emission line galaxies that meet the above criteria in the redshift range 0.05
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Tracking fast neutrons
Creators: name: Wang, Zhehui
name: Morris, Christopher L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on elastic collisions, the linear momentum of a fast neutron can be measured from as few as two consecutive recoil ion tracks plus the vertex position of the third collision, or `two and half' ion tracks. If the time delay between the first two consecutive ion tracks is also measured, the number of ion tracks can be reduced to one and a half. The angular and magnitude resolutions are limited by ion range straggling to about ten percent. Multi-wire proportional chambers and light-field imaging are discussed for fast neutron tracking. Single-charge or single-photon detection sensitivity is required in either approach. Light-field imaging is free of charge-diffusion-induced image blur, but the limited number of photons available can be a challenge. $^1$H,$^2$H and $^3$He could be used for the initial development of fast neutron trackers based on light-field imaging.
description: 13 pages, 14 figures
Tra economia della religione ed economia religiosa. Spigolature italiane di storia e teoria economica
Creators: name: Noto, Sergio
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2020

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. Una rivoluzione contraddittoria - 3. Chiesa e denaro: la questione del prestito a interesse - 4. La svolta della Rerum Novarum: associazionismo e cooperazione - 5. Cattolicesimo e corporativismo - 6. Gli anni ’30 e l’eclissi dell’economia liberale - 7. Il dopoguerra italiano: un miracolo a metà - 8. Gli effetti negativi dei cattolici in politica, Giovanni Paolo II e il dialogo con il mercato. Between the Economics of Religion and Religious Economics. Tangent Questions Regarding Italian History and Economic Theory. ABSTRACT: The paper discusses the most important points of the relationship between social Christian thought and economic facts and how they developed in Italy, with particular reference to the application of competitive market principles. Starting with the second half of the 1800s, it is possible to argue that both the social doctrine and market theories had scarse impact on each other and more importantly, that they did not interact in a way which would have been useful. The author covers the main and most significant contributions that economists, sociologists, philosophers and politicians tried to bring to this missing debate between economic science and religious principles. In view of the creation of a society which responds to mankind’s real needs, we feel the lack of such a debate even though today we are witnessing a certain awakening.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2020: 18 maggio
A double-helix neutron detector using micron-size B-10 powder
Creators: name: Wang, Zhehui
name: Morris, C. L.
name: Bacon, J. D.
name: Brockwell, M. I.
name: Ramsey, J. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A double-helix electrode configuration is combined with a $^{10}$B powder coating technique to build large-area (9 in $\times$ 36 in) neutron detectors. The neutron detection efficiency for each of the four prototypes is comparable to a single 2-bar $^3$He drift tube of the same length (36 in). One unit has been operational continuously for 18 months and the change of efficiency is less than 1%. An analytic model for pulse heigh spectra is described and the predicted mean film thickness agrees with the experiment to within 30%. Further detector optimization is possible through film texture, power size, moderator box and gas. The estimated production cost per unit is less than 3k US\$ and the technology is thus suitable for deployment in large numbers.
Strategic Plays: A Model for Organizational Planning
Creators: name: Malizia, Emil
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1984

description: Strategic planning is a form of organizational planning appropriate for local development organizations (LDO's). It is a "producer-oriented" process to the extent that the aims, resources and capabilities of the local development organization are determined before area-wide goals and problems are addressed. Rather than represent a general prescriptive plan for all local organizations, the plan of the local development organization is one piece of the mosaic of organizational plans which must be jointly pursued to effect successful economic development. This article provides an overview of the strategic planning process as it might be used by local economic development directors.
The $RO(ΠB)$-graded $C_2$-equivariant ordinary cohomology of $B_{C_2} U(1)$
Creators: name: Costenoble, Steven R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary: 55N91, Secondary: 14N15, 55R40, 55R91

description: We calculate the ordinary $C_2$-cohomology, with Burnside ring coefficients, of $CP_{C_2}^\infty = B_{C_2} U(1)$, the complex projective space, a model for the classifying space for $C_2$-equivariant complex line bundles. The $RO(C_2)$-graded Bredon ordinary cohomology was calculated by Gaunce Lewis, but here we extend to a larger grading in order to capture a more natural set of generators. These generators include the Euler class of the tautological bundle, which lies outside of the $RO(C_2)$-graded theory.
description: 52 pages. Accepted manuscript; main difference from previous versions is the removal of Part 4 with general results about equivariant cohomology and the calculation of the cohomology of a point and EC_2
Helicity inversion in spherical convection as a means for equatorward dynamo wave propagation
Creators: name: Duarte, Lúcia D. V.
name: Wicht, Johannes
name: Browning, Matthew K.
name: Gastine, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss here a purely hydrodynamical mechanism to invert the sign of the kinetic helicity, which plays a key role in determining the direction of propagation of cyclical magnetism in most models of dynamo action by rotating convection. Such propagation provides a prominent, and puzzling constraint on dynamo models. In the Sun, active regions emerge first at mid-latitudes, then appear nearer the equator over the course of a cycle, but most previous global-scale dynamo simulations have exhibited poleward propagation (if they were cyclical at all). Here, we highlight some simulations in which the direction of propagation of dynamo waves is altered primarily by an inversion of the kinetic helicity throughout much of the interior, rather than by changes in the differential rotation. This tends to occur in cases with a low Prandtl number and internal heating, in regions where the local density gradient is relatively small. We analyse how this inversion arises, and contrast it to the case of convection that is either highly columnar (i.e., rapidly rotating) or locally very stratified; in both of those situations, the typical profile of kinetic helicity (negative throughout most of the northern hemisphere) instead prevails.
description: 17 pages, 16 figures, 1 table, accepted in MNRAS
Shrinkage = Factor Model
Creators: name: Kakushadze, Zura
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Portfolio Management (q-fin.PM)
subject: Risk Management (q-fin.RM)
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: Shrunk sample covariance matrix is a factor model of a special form combining some (typically, style) risk factor(s) and principal components with a (block-)diagonal factor covariance matrix. As such, shrinkage, which essentially inherits out-of-sample instabilities of the sample covariance matrix, is not an alternative to multifactor risk models but one out of myriad possible regularization schemes. We give an example of a scheme designed to be less prone to said instabilities. We contextualize this within multifactor models.
description: 5 pages; a trivial typo corrected; to appear as an Invited Editorial in Journal of Asset Management
Per un repubblicanesimo religioso. Libertà e fede nella storiografia di Maurizio Viroli
Creators: name: Greco, Tommaso
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2020

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Un’idea della politica - 2. Del rapporto costitutivo tra libertà e religione - 3. Repubblicanesimo e religione - 4. Lo spazio (pubblico) della religione. For a religious republicanism. Freedom and faith in Maurizio Viroli's historiography ABSTRACT: This article analyzes the Maurizio Viroli's historiographic thought, highlighting the central relationship between the spirit of freedom and the religious sentiment, from which a full knowledge of the public significance of religion descends.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2020: 18 maggio
Single top quark production at the LHC
Creators: name: Giammanco, Andrea
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper is an experimental review of the study of processes with a single top quark at the LHC. The pioneering times are over, and this is now a sector of "precision physics" at colliders. Angular distributions of the decay products of singly-produced top quarks are unique tests of the electroweak interaction. Searches for rare final states of the form t+X (where X=$γ$, Z, H) are very sensitive to new physics, and will enter with Run II in a very interesting zone of the parameter space of some theories. The relative sign of the Yukawa coupling of the top quark with respect to the Higgs coupling to gauge bosons will be conclusively measured very soon in the tHq final state.
description: Invited review paper, to be published on Reviews in Physics
The Circus Comes to Town: The RTC's Affordable Housing Program and its First North Carolina Auction
Creators: name: Levy, Sharon
name: Spence, David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1991

description: On a late June afternoon, hundreds of spectators sat waiting in the yellow heat beneath a big-top tent. Young couples fanned children with folded programs and craned to see any movement on stage. Finally as organ music filled the tent, the master of ceremonies ascended the stage and barked greetings into the microphone. The crowd was captivated. But this was not the circus they had come to see. This was Resolution Trust Corporation's Affordable Housing Program! Since the Resolution Trust Corporation (RTC) took its first steps toward implementing the Affordable Housing Disposition Program in 1989, housing advocates, congressional sponsors, and the press have lambasted the agency's efforts to reconcile the competing statutory objectives of the program. In recent months, criticism of the program has been calmed somewhat by the RTC's success at moving huge numbers of low-priced homes in highly publicized public auctions. Unlike the RTC's earlier attempts to dispose of its affordable housing inventory, the auctions have been spared most criticism, attracting instead the fanfare and hyperbole of a big-top circus coming to town. As part of its sales blitzkrieg covering the Northeast, Southeast, and Southwest, the RTC sponsored a series of real estate auctions in North Carolina's Research Triangle Park in late June 1991. All of the properties, ranging from undeveloped land to small shopping centers, were taken from the real-estate-owned inventories of Raleigh's failed First Federal Savings and Loan. The 107 properties eligible for the Affordable Housing Disposition Program were sold during to two days of auctioning. Under the program, low-priced single-family and multi-family homes are separated from other assets and marketed for 90 days solely to low- and moderate-income households, nonprofits, and public agencies. According to its own criteria, the RTC considered the North Carolina affordable housing auction a smashing success. The question remains whether the auction was a success when measured in terms set by statute, housing advocates, public agencies, and the buyers themselves.
L’evoluzione del concetto di ordine pubblico nel giudizio di delibazione
Creators: name: Cavana, Paolo
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2020

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Alle origini del concetto di ordine pubblico nel giudizio di delibazione (Corte cost., sent. n. 18 del 1982) - 2. L’interpretazione giurisprudenziale: il criterio della “maggiore disponibilità” verso l’ordinamento canonico e il principio di tutela dell’affidamento incolpevole (Cass. civ., S.U., sent. 1° ottobre 1982, n. 5026) - 3. La delibazione nella nuova disciplina concordataria del 1984 e l’autonomia delle parti - 4. Il decorso del tempo, la convivenza dei coniugi e le esigenze di riforma del regime degli effetti patrimoniali della delibazione (Cass. civ., S.U., sent. 20 luglio 1988, n. 4700) - 5. L’evoluzione dell’ordinamento italiano e la sua incidenza sul concetto di ordine pubblico - 6. La tipicità dei vizi di nullità come espressione dell’accresciuta rilevanza del rapporto coniugale nella disciplina civilistica del matrimonio. La convivenza dei coniugi come elemento ostativo alla delibazione (Cass. civ., S.U., sent. 18 luglio 2008, n. 19809) - 7. Le successive oscillazioni della giurisprudenza: verso la pronuncia delle Sezioni Unite del 2014 - 8. Ragioni del progressivo allontanamento dell’ordine pubblico italiano dal sistema matrimoniale canonico - 9. Le esigenze di protezione della persona e il principio della parità dei coniugi alla base della rilevanza assunta dal rapporto coniugale nell’evoluzione dell’ordine pubblico in materia matrimoniale - 10. Criticità delle pronunce delle Sezioni Unite del 2014 - 11. Il superamento della pregiudiziale economica e i suoi effetti sul processo canonico - 12. Osservazioni conclusive. The development of the concept of public order in the judicial proceeding of exequatur for ecclesiastical judgements of marriage nullity in Italy ABSTRACT: This paper examines the controversial development of the concept of public order in the judicial proceeding of exequatur in the decisions of the Italian Supreme Court. Under the current Concordat between Italy and the Holy See (1984) the concept of public order represents a limit for the civil recognition (“delibazione”) of a declaration of marriage nullity. The paper then focuses on the effects of the latest judgements issued by the United Sections of the Supreme Court (2014), banning the exequatur of ecclesiastical nullity sentences for marriages lasting over three years. It provides a critical view of this restrictive move in the light of the deep transformations undergone by Italian family law in the last decades.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2020: 18 maggio
Origin of the Proton-to-Helium Ratio Anomaly in Cosmic Rays
Creators: name: Tomassetti, Nicola
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent data on Galactic cosmic rays (CRs) revealed that the helium energy spectrum is harder than the proton spectrum. The AMS experiment has now reported that the proton-to-helium ratio as function of rigidity $R$ (momentum-to-charge ratio) falls off steadily as p/He $\sim R^Δ$, with $Δ\approx$-0.08 between $R\sim$40 GV and $R\sim$2 TV. Besides, the single spectra of proton and helium are found to progressively harden at $R\gtrsim$100 GV. The p/He anomaly is generally ascribed to particle-dependent acceleration mechanisms occurring in Galactic CR sources. However, this explanation poses a challenge to the known mechanisms of particle acceleration since they are believed to be "universal", composition blind, rigidity mechanisms. Using the new AMS data, we show that the p/He anomaly can be simply explained in terms of a two-component scenario where the GeV-TeV flux is ascribed to a hydrogen-rich source, possibly a nearby supernova remnant, characterized by a soft acceleration spectrum. This simple idea provides a common interpretation for the p/He ratio and for the single spectra of proton and helium: both anomalies are explained by a flux transition between two components. The "universality" of particle acceleration in sources is not violated in this model. A distinctive signature of our scenario is the high-energy flattening of the p/He ratio at multi-TeV energies, which is hinted at by existing data and will be resolutely tested by new space experiments ISS-CREAM and CALET.
description: 5 pages, 4 figures; matches the published version
Bagattelle per una pandemia
Creators: name: Botti, Federica
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2020

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Premessa - 2. La democrazia in pericolo? - 3. La libertà religiosa tra Costituzione e Concordato - 4. Sulla libertas Ecclesiae e sulle regole del diritto internazionale - 5. Le trattative diplomatiche de facto tra la CEI e il Governo e il dibattito pubblico - 6. Il FEC e il (mancato) trasferimento della proprietà delle chiese con personalità giuridica in favore dell’autorità ecclesiastica: un case study. Trifles for a pandemic ABSTRACT: The emergency regulations for the containment of Covid-19 as well as affecting religious freedom (art. 19 of the Italian Constitution) can also be relevant from the point of view of the bilaterality of the pact between the Italian State and the Holy See by opening up to the principles of international law and the Vienna Convention the entrance to the list of instruments that can be applied for the solution of the problem, alongside the usual pragmatic instruments of realpolitik.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2020: 18 maggio
A multilayer surface detector for ultracold neutrons
Creators: name: Wang, Zhehui
name: Hoffbauer, M. A.
name: Morris, C. L.
name: Callahan, N. B.
name: Adamek, E. R.
name: Bacon, J. D.
name: Blatnik, M.
name: Brandt, A. E.
name: Broussard, L. J.
name: Clayton, S. M.
name: Cude-Woods, C.
name: Currie, S.
name: Dees, E. B.
name: Ding, X.
name: Gao, J.
name: Gray, F. E.
name: Hickerson, K. P.
name: Holley, A. T.
name: Ito, T. M.
name: Liu, C. -Y.
name: Makela, M.
name: Ramsey, J. C.
name: Pattie,, R. W.
name: Salvat, D. J.
name: Saunders, A.
name: Schmidt, D. W.
name: Schulze, R. K.
name: Seestrom, S. J.
name: Sharapov, E. I.
name: Sprow, A.
name: Tang, Z.
name: Wei, W.
name: Wexler, J. W.
name: Womack, T. L.
name: Young, A. R.
name: Zeck, B. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A multilayer surface detector for ultracold neutrons (UCNs) is described. The top $^{10}$B layer is exposed to the vacuum chamber and directly captures UCNs. The ZnS:Ag layer beneath the $^{10}$B layer is a few microns thick, which is sufficient to detect the charged particles from the $^{10}$B(n,$α$)$^7$Li neutron-capture reaction, while thin enough so that ample light due to $α$ and $^7$Li escapes for detection by photomultiplier tubes. One-hundred-nm thick $^{10}$B layer gives high UCN detection efficiency, as determined by the mean UCN kinetic energy, detector materials and others. Low background, including negligible sensitivity to ambient neutrons, has also been verified through pulse-shape analysis and comparisons with other existing $^3$He and $^{10}$B detectors. This type of detector has been configured in different ways for UCN flux monitoring, development of UCN guides and neutron lifetime research.
description: 21 pages, 10 figures
Additional file 7 of Learning effect of online versus onsite education in health and medical scholarship – protocol for a cluster randomized trial
Creators: name: Raffing, Rie
name: Konge, Lars
name: Tønnesen, Hanne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 7.
On the Single-Photon-Counting (SPC) modes of imaging using an XFEL source
Creators: name: Wang, Zhehui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The requirements to achieve high detection efficiency (above 50\%) and gigahertz (GHz) frame rate for the proposed 42-keV X-ray free-electron laser (XFEL) at Los Alamos are summarized. Direct detection scenarios using C (diamond), Si, Ge and GaAs semiconductor sensors are analyzed. Single-photon counting (SPC) mode and weak SPC mode using Si can potentially meet the efficiency and frame rate requirements and be useful to both photoelectric absorption and Compton physics as the photon energy increases. Multilayer three-dimensional (3D) detector architecture, as a possible means to realize SPC modes, is compared with the widely used two-dimensional (2D) hybrid planar electrode structure and 3D deeply entrenched electrode architecture. Demonstration of thin film cameras less than 100-$μ$m thick with onboard thin ASICs could be an initial step to realize multilayer 3D detectors and SPC modes for XFELs.
description: 11 pages, 3 figures, 17th IWoRID workshop, Jun. 28 to July 2, 2015, Hamburg, Germany
Il papa e la sfida della pandemia
Creators: name: Cimbalo, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2020

description: SOMMARIO: 1. Unilateralità e/o bilateralità dei provvedimenti Covid-19 e libertà della Chiesa - 2. L’esercizio della libertà religiosa di fronte alla pandemia - 3. Gli atti rituali nell’era del Covid-19 - 4. La dimensione territoriale della religione. The Pope and the challenge of the pandemic ABSTRACT: The measures taken to tackle the pandemic, although taken unilaterally by the State, were shared by the ecclesiastical authority without giving rise to disputes. Pope Francis unilaterally adopted ways of celebrating the rites and administering the sacraments in order to protect life. His innovative use of the media has updated the language, the forms of celebration of the rites and collective participation of the Catholic faithful, arousing perplexity in some faithful who complain about violations of religious freedom and the principle of bilaterality in Church-State relations.
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2020: 4 maggio
Photon Detection System Designs for the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment
Creators: name: Whittington, Denver
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment (DUNE) will be a premier facility for exploring long-standing questions about the boundaries of the standard model. Acting in concert with the liquid argon time projection chambers underpinning the far detector design, the DUNE photon detection system will capture ultraviolet scintillation light in order to provide valuable timing information for event reconstruction. To maximize the active area while maintaining a small photocathode coverage, the experiment will utilize a design based on plastic light guides coated with a wavelength-shifting compound, along with silicon photomultipliers, to collect and record scintillation light from liquid argon. This report presents recent preliminary performance measurements of this baseline design and several alternative designs which promise significant improvements in sensitivity to low-energy interactions.
description: 9 pages, 8 figures, prepared for the conference proceedings of LIght Detection In Noble Elements (LIDINE 2015), updated to address review comments
Finanza cattolica: il potere del denaro per il bene comune
Creators: name: Pirovano, Giovanni
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2020

description: Prendo spunto per iniziare il mio intervento citando il punto n. 19 del documento Oeconomicae et Pecuniariae Quaestiones (d’ora in poi, “OPQ”): “La sanità del sistema, del mercato finanziario dipende dalla sanità delle singole persone e dalle singole azioni che vi vengono attuate”. Le mie riflessioni partono dall’essere in primis cristiano e cattolico, e poi dall’essere un professionista che lavora in una determinata realtà bancaria, e che partecipa al Comitato di Presidenza dell’Associazione Bancaria Italiana, l’ABI, con deleghe sulla Corporate Social Responsibility e sull’Innovazione tecnologica. (segue)
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2020: 4 maggio
A Global Air Cargo-Industrial Complex for North Carolina
Creators: name: Kasarda, John D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1991

description: Transportation accessibility and changes in transportation technology have always been paramount to community economic development. America's first great commercial centers developed around seaports. Next came riverine and canal-linked cities that formed the backbone of America's industrial revolution. Railroads fostered the third wave of state and local economic development, opening up America's land-locked interior to manufacturing and trade. Major centers of goods processing and distribution emerged at rail hubs, generating massive numbers of jobs and commercial activity at these terminal and break-in-bulk points. In fact, the contemporary South's largest commercial center, Atlanta, developed as a railway hub and was initially known as Terminus. The fourth wave of economic development was spawned by highways and the shift to cars and trucks to move people and goods. With the introduction of freeways, beltways, expressways and interstate highways, massive deconcentration of economic activity commenced. Major suburban commercial centers developed and previously inaccessible rural communities along the interstates had new economic life pumped into them, while those that remained isolated stagnated. We are now entering the fifth, and perhaps most opportune, economic era where international markets and international sourcing will play increasingly dominant roles, and speed will become a critical competitive factor. This new era is being ushered in by three irreversible forces of immense significance: the globalization of economic transactions; fundamental changes in manufacturing methods from producing large, uniform batches to making customized goods on short notice and to just-in-time processes that substantially cut production and delivery cycles to minimize inventory costs; and a growing requirement of business to ship products by air rather than by surface. The combined thrust of these interacting forces is creating an entirely new economy where aviation and airports will ultimately supplant seaports, rail and highway systems as the primary job and wealth generators for states and localities. North Carolina's ability to maximize indigenous commercial growth, expand exports, and attract major investment from around the country and the world will require an understanding of the new global economy and the forces creating it. Competitive success will also require vision and pro-action regarding the pivotal role aviation will play. After briefly describing the forces shaping the new economy, this article describes the concept of a global air cargo-industrial complex that would exploit these forces to provide North Carolina with an edge in capturing a disproportionate share of the nation's future economic development.
Stack
Creators: name: Fedor, Anna
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: This registration contains a model that was described in Fedor, Ittzés, Szathmáry, 2011. Parsing recursive sentences with a connectionist model including a neural stack and synaptic gating (Journal of Theoretical Biology, 271, 100-105). The registration contains the paper and all the MatLab files necessary to reproduce the results described in the paper and its corrigendum. The authors noticed that there was a mistake during generating data for the paper. In the paper, we state that the model was trained with grammatical sentences and tested with a random mix of novel grammatical and agrammatical sentences. That was the plan, but we forgot to add the agrammatical sentences to the mix, so the model was only tested on novel grammatical sentences. Accordingly, the following sections in the published paper should be omitted: • In Section2.1: “Additionally, random agrammatical sentences were also generated. These sentences were also composed of three A words and three B words and always started with an A, just as grammatical sentences, but did not conform to any of the above rules”. • Caption to Fig.3: “Mixed with agrammatical sentences”. The last two sentences of Section3.1 should read as below: • “Training was performed on a randomly chosen subset of the 336 grammatical sentences, while testing was performed on the rest of the grammatical sentences. Note, that the theoretical maximum for prediction performance is 50% in the case of grammatical sentences for both grammars”. The pdf file in this project is the manuscript with the necessary changes. When we added agrammatical sentences to the testing set as described in the original version of the paper, it turned out that the model mistakenly categorizes most agrammatical sentences as grammatical. This means that when tested with a mix of grammatical and agrammatical sentences, “Decision” is not at 100% as in Fig.3/a and 3/b, but lower, usually around 60%. The original (published) model could be ran with script_stack_figuregenerator_published.m. The model can be fixed, if we pre-train the push-pop neurons and the decision neuron. The push-pop neurons should be able to decide whether two words are the same or different, and the decision neuron should recognize if the stack is not empty. If these components work properly, the model reaches maximum performance when tested with a mix of grammatical and agrammatical sentences. The corrected, pre-trained model can be run with script_stack_figuregenerator_pretrained.m.
Position-sensitive detection of ultracold neutrons with an imaging camera and its implications to spectroscopy
Creators: name: Wei, Wanchun
name: Broussard, L. J.
name: Hoffbauer, M. A.
name: Makela, M.
name: Morris, C. L.
name: Tang, Z.
name: Adamek, E. R.
name: Callahan, N. B.
name: Clayton, S. M.
name: Cude-Woods, C.
name: Currie, S.
name: Dees, E. B.
name: Ding, X.
name: Geltenbort, P.
name: Hickerson, K. P.
name: Holley, A. T.
name: Ito, T. M.
name: Leung, K. K.
name: Liu, C. -Y.
name: Morley, D. J.
name: Ortiz, Jose D.
name: Pattie,, R. W.
name: Ramsey, J. C.
name: Saunders, A.
name: Seestrom, S. J.
name: Sharapov, E. I.
name: Sjue, S. K.
name: Wexler, J.
name: Womack, T. L.
name: Young, A. R.
name: Zeck, B. A.
name: Wang, Zhehui
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Position-sensitive detection of ultracold neutrons (UCNs) is demonstrated using an imaging charge-coupled device (CCD) camera. A spatial resolution less than 15 $μ$m has been achieved, which is equivalent to an UCN energy resolution below 2 pico-electron-volts through the relation $δE = m_0g δx$. Here, the symbols $δE$, $δx$, $m_0$ and $g$ are the energy resolution, the spatial resolution, the neutron rest mass and the gravitational acceleration, respectively. A multilayer surface convertor described previously is used to capture UCNs and then emits visible light for CCD imaging. Particle identification and noise rejection are discussed through the use of light intensity profile analysis. This method allows different types of UCN spectroscopy and other applications.
description: 12 figures, 28 pages, accepted for publication in NIMA
"Senza D". La campagna Uaar tra libertà di propaganda e divieto di discriminazioni
Creators: name: Pasquali Cerioli, Jlia
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2020

description: 1 - Nel tempo della pandemia l'attenzione di commentatori e studiosi si è concentrata sulle limitazioni al (diritto di riunirsi per finalità di) culto. Non sembra avere ricevuto lo stesso interesse un altro contagiato dal virus, ancor più a rischio perché malato cronico: l'esercizio della propaganda in contesto di effettivo pluralismo, sul quale grava il consueto silenzio. Il dramma che oggi tutti viviamo è favorevole a un racconto incline ad accentuare le componenti emotive dei messaggi veicolati, al fine di coinvolgere la platea più ampia di "spettatori". Trionfa così la rappresentazione, fortemente mediatizzata, delle immagini di maggior efficacia, da rendere iconiche per il loro impatto sinestetico: potenti strumenti di persuasione a svantaggio, in un circolo vizioso, delle fedi di minore "ascolto", più che mai senza voce. (segue)
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2020: 4 maggio
Sums of Random Matrices and the Potts Model on Random Planar Maps
Creators: name: Atkin, Max R.
name: Niedner, Benjamin
name: Wheater, John F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute the partition function of the $q$-states Potts model on a random planar lattice with $p\leq q$ allowed, equally weighted colours on a connected boundary. To this end, we employ its matrix model representation in the planar limit, generalising a result by Voiculescu for the addition of random matrices to a situation beyond free probability theory. We show that the partition functions with $p$ and $q-p$ colours on the boundary are related algebraically. Finally, we investigate the phase diagram of the model when $0\leq q\leq 4$ and comment on the conformal field theory description of the critical points.
description: 31 pages, 4 figures, typos corrected
Additional file 3 of Learning effect of online versus onsite education in health and medical scholarship – protocol for a cluster randomized trial
Creators: name: Raffing, Rie
name: Konge, Lars
name: Tønnesen, Hanne
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy

description: Supplementary Material 3.
Migrant Farmworkers - Those Who Would Be Saved
Creators: name: Buckwalter, Jane
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1982

description: Every year, migrant farmworkers follow the Southeastern migrant stream from Florida to Delaware to harvest truck crops, crops that cannot be harvested by machine because they require human judgment in order to be picked when ripe. Many crops which end up in America's kitchens are harvested by migrant farmworkers: oranges picked in Florida; peaches from Georgia and South Carolina; tobacco, cucumbers, sweet potatoes, cabbage, squash, watermelons, and soy beans in eastern North Carolina; apples in northern North Carolina and Virginia; and mushrooms in Deleware. North Carolina is in the middle of this migrant stream and is the summer host for 30,000 to 60,000 migrant farmworkers per year. These migrant workers are an increasingly important part of the agricultural economy of North Carolina. North Carolina migrant and seasonal farmworkers ( those who live in a community year round but do not work full time at farming) harvested crops which represented almost $2 billion in agricultural production in 1980; yet in North Carolina, migrant farmworkers receive a lower average wage than migrant workers in any other state in the country. In his opening remarks to the Legislative Study Committee on Migrants (February 26, 1982), North Carolina's Commissioner of Labor, John C. Brooks, stated: "Without migrant farmworkers our crops would rot in the field, and our agricultural economy would be in a shambles." Even so, North Carolina does not have a very good track record concerning farmworkers' rights. In a 1979 report which focused on 20 agricultural states that employed migrants, Duke University Fellow Dr. Joshua S. Richert found that North Carolina was rated rock bottom as 20th among states which afforded legal protections to their farmworkers. The need for legal protection arises out of problems inherent in the crewleader system by which migrant farmworkers are hired. This system can easily lead to abuses concerning recruitment, wages, and the health and safety of the workers.
Materials & Experiment
Creators: name: Vasilev, Martin
name: Parmentier, Fabrice
name: Kirkby, Julie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: auditory distraction
subject: deviance distraction
subject: novelty distraction
subject: oculomotor control
subject: reading
subject: saccades

description: Materials and Matlab/ Psychtoolbox script used to run the experiment
Revitalizing Pittsburgh’s Waterfront Brownfields: An Interview with Former Mayor Tom Murphy
Creators: name: Schroeder, Heather
name: Eklund, Brika
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: On January 29, 2010, former Pittsburgh Mayor and current Urban Land Institute fellow Tom Murphy visited The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to deliver the 2010 Robert and Helen Siler Lecture, entitled “Raleigh/Durham/Chapel Hill: Building a World Class Region to Compete in a Changing Economy.” Earlier that day, he sat down with the Carolina Planning editors to share leadership lessons and strategies for using urban greening to revitalize industrial cities. A condensed and edited transcript follows.
Quando l’etica è intolleranza
Creators: name: Colaianni, Nicola
Publisher: name: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale
Year: 2020

description: L’ultimo numero della Rivista ha ospitato un singolare intervento ad personam: la mia. Non intendo discutere nel merito le critiche mossemi, la cui consistenza, come lo stesso prof. Pacillo ammette, è affidata al dibattito, che, del resto, su questo tema si sta sviluppando in maniera virale. Sì, invece, la premessa - un intero paragrafo - sulla “necessità etica”, dalla quale egli si dice essere stato mosso in conseguenza del mio approccio, asseritamente privo di “forme rispettose e sempre dubitative” laddove Nanni Moretti ci ha parlato dell’importanza delle parole e Pacillo stesso di quella dei toni. (segue)
description: Stato, Chiese e pluralismo confessionale, 2020: 4 maggio
The AIMSS Project III: The Stellar Populations of Compact Stellar Systems
Creators: name: Janz, Joachim
name: Norris, Mark A.
name: Forbes, Duncan A.
name: Huxor, Avon
name: Romanowsky, Aaron J.
name: Frank, Matthias J.
name: Escudero, Carlos G.
name: Faifer, Favio R.
name: Forte, Juan Carlos
name: Kannappan, Sheila J.
name: Maraston, Claudia
name: Brodie, Jean P.
name: Strader, Jay
name: Thompson, Bradley R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In recent years, a growing zoo of compact stellar systems (CSSs) have been found whose physical properties (mass, size, velocity dispersion) place them between classical globular clusters (GCs) and true galaxies, leading to debates about their nature. Here we present results using a so far underutilised discriminant, their stellar population properties. Based on new spectroscopy from 8-10m telescopes, we derive ages, metallicities, and [α/Fe] of 29 CSSs. These range from GCs with sizes of merely a few parsec to compact ellipticals larger than M32. Together with a literature compilation, this provides a panoramic view of the stellar population characteristics of early-type systems. We find that the CSSs are predominantly more metal rich than typical galaxies at the same stellar mass. At high mass, the compact ellipticals (cEs) depart from the mass-metallicity relation of massive early-type galaxies, which forms a continuous sequence with dwarf galaxies. At lower mass, the metallicity distribution of ultra-compact dwarfs (UCDs) changes at a few times $10^7$ M$_{\odot}$, which roughly coincides with the mass where luminosity function arguments previously suggested the GC population ends. The highest metallicities in CSSs are paralleled only by those of dwarf galaxy nuclei and the central parts of massive early types. These findings can be interpreted as CSSs previously being more massive and undergoing tidal interactions to obtain their current mass and compact size. Such an interpretation is supported by CSSs with direct evidence for tidal stripping, and by an examination of the CSS internal escape velocities.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS
Random on-board pixel sampling (ROPS) X-ray Camera
Creators: name: Wang, Zhehui
name: Iaroshenko, O.
name: Li, S.
name: Liu, T.
name: Parab, N.
name: Chen, W. W.
name: Chu, P.
name: Kenyon, G.
name: Lipton, R.
name: Sun, K. -X.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent advances in compressed sensing theory and algorithms offer new possibilities for high-speed X-ray camera design. In many CMOS cameras, each pixel has an independent on-board circuit that includes an amplifier, noise rejection, signal shaper, an analog-to-digital converter (ADC), and optional in-pixel storage. When X-ray images are sparse, i.e., when one of the following cases is true: (a.) The number of pixels with true X-ray hits is much smaller than the total number of pixels; (b.) The X-ray information is redundant; or (c.) Some prior knowledge about the X-ray images exists, sparse sampling may be allowed. Here we first illustrate the feasibility of random on-board pixel sampling (ROPS) using an existing set of X-ray images, followed by a discussion about signal to noise as a function of pixel size. Next, we describe a possible circuit architecture to achieve random pixel access and in-pixel storage. The combination of a multilayer architecture, sparse on-chip sampling, and computational image techniques, is expected to facilitate the development and applications of high-speed X-ray camera technology.
description: 9 pages, 6 figures, Presented in 19th iWoRID
What Are We Gonna Do With Those Package Plants?
Creators: name: Snaman, Sue K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1983

description: Construction of two major water impoundments in the Triangle area has placed local governments in the hot seat. The Falls of the Neuse and the Jordan Reservoirs were built for water supply, recreation, and flood control. Due to the scenic and recreational qualities, they have also inspired a tremendous increase in residential development. County Health Departments have an important role in protecting water supplies at a time when regulatory responsibilities of state agencies are in transition, with new regulations effective January 1984. As more and more developers elect to construct private wastewater treatment facilities, the control of public health problems has county health departments worried. Issues of public management of private wastewater systems concern conventional on-site disposal systems serving .individual homes or several homes, as well as on or off-site community systems such as treatment works, spray irrigation, or land application of treated wastewater. Package treatment plants have recently received the most attention. The term "package plant" is often used to describe any small discharging wastewater system serving a group of homes. More accurately, package treatment plants are smaller versions of conventional sewer system which have been transported to the site in modules. Package treatment plants are available in various treatment capacities as well as treatment levels. Ongoing problems with malfunctioning private systems and package treatment plants go beyond public health concerns and hit the municipalities squarely in the pocket. Who pays for necessary repairs or replacement when the private wastewater system fails and the public sector must step in to operate and manage?
Moving Beyond Imagery (Commentary)
Creators: name: Richmond, Jonathan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1987

description: As motorists sit stuck in traffic, they dream of speeding into the horizon on bold new freeways or of being whisked to work in luxurious comfort on board futuristic-looking rail rapid transit. Experience elsewhere provides the imagery for what should exist here and now. Trips down uncongested rural interstates suggest an ideal for the city. Rides on the rapid transit systems of San Francisco, London or Paris provide the vision for cities not currently served by rail.