cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Virtual Spaces and Physical Places: Analyzing Patron Use of Digital and Physical Collections at the Louis Round Wilson Library, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Creators: name: Chandler, Kelsey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015
Subjects: Special collections
Digital humanities
Digital archives

description: This study describes a multi-modal use assessment of the digital collections and corresponding special collections materials at Wilson Library, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The study includes: a study of Google Analytics data relating to specific digital collections, an analysis of physical collections use based on metadata provided by the Aeon request system, and a survey-based exploration of current user experiences and expectations regarding materials in Wilson Library's Special Collections.
Collections that data indicated were more popular had a higher bounce rate and a lower depth of exploration by patrons than collections with a smaller user population, the use of which suggested an in-depth, purposeful exploration of the collections. Subjects indicated interest as the most likely reason to use physical collection materials or visit a physical exhibit incorporating said materials, but also privileged accessibility and outreach as key components in use decisions. The study indicated an interest, among subjects, in more visible outreach and advertising regarding programming at Wilson Library and a need for greater awareness regarding the accessibility of special collections materials at Wilson Library.
MS Gr. class. c. 4 961
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1077 col. 46 col. 47. Philodemus, De pietate
Drawing by G.B. Malesci
Learning Contextual Dependencies with Convolutional Hierarchical Recurrent Neural Networks
Creators: name: Zuo, Zhen
name: Shuai, Bing
name: Wang, Gang
name: Liu, Xiao
name: Wang, Xingxing
name: Wang, Bing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Existing deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have shown their great success on image classification. CNNs mainly consist of convolutional and pooling layers, both of which are performed on local image areas without considering the dependencies among different image regions. However, such dependencies are very important for generating explicit image representation. In contrast, recurrent neural networks (RNNs) are well known for their ability of encoding contextual information among sequential data, and they only require a limited number of network parameters. General RNNs can hardly be directly applied on non-sequential data. Thus, we proposed the hierarchical RNNs (HRNNs). In HRNNs, each RNN layer focuses on modeling spatial dependencies among image regions from the same scale but different locations. While the cross RNN scale connections target on modeling scale dependencies among regions from the same location but different scales. Specifically, we propose two recurrent neural network models: 1) hierarchical simple recurrent network (HSRN), which is fast and has low computational cost; and 2) hierarchical long-short term memory recurrent network (HLSTM), which performs better than HSRN with the price of more computational cost. In this manuscript, we integrate CNNs with HRNNs, and develop end-to-end convolutional hierarchical recurrent neural networks (C-HRNNs). C-HRNNs not only make use of the representation power of CNNs, but also efficiently encodes spatial and scale dependencies among different image regions. On four of the most challenging object/scene image classification benchmarks, our C-HRNNs achieve state-of-the-art results on Places 205, SUN 397, MIT indoor, and competitive results on ILSVRC 2012.
Librarians and Left-Handedness: A Speculative Exploration
Creators: name: Bosman, Renee A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004
Subjects: Cognition
Librarianship--Psychological aspects
Laterality

description: About eleven percent of the world's population is left-handed, yet casual observation has led me to believe that significantly more than eleven percent of librarians are left-handed. The purpose of this research is to explore both the concept of left-handedness and the profession of librarianship, in an attempt to ascertain any similarities between the two that may lead a larger-than-average number of left-handed people to the library profession. To best explore the implications of left-handedness, the paper examines its causes and physiological implications, specifically those related to laterality and hemisphere dominance. Papers that examine thinking styles in librarianship are also discussed. One of the similarities between the cognitive processes of right-hemisphere dominant (and therefore more likely to be left-handed) people and librarians appears to be the issue of greater adaptability and use of the whole brain in problem solving.
Anabaena torulosa Lagerheim ex Bornet & Flahault 1886
Creators: name: Mcgregor, Glenn B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
Cyanophyceae
Nostocales
Nostocaceae
Anabaena
Anabaena torulosa

description: Anabaena torulosa Lagerheim ex Bornet & Flahault (1886: 236) Fig. 37 C–F.
Filaments benthic, often tycoplanktonic; trichomes solitary, growing amongst other algae or forming prostrate mats, straight or flexuous, cylindrical, distinctly constricted at the cross walls. Vegetative cells barrel-shaped, ± isodiametric, (2.0–) 3.5–5.0 μm long × 4–7 (–8) μm broad, blue-green in colour; apical cells conical. Heterocytes solitary, spherical to ovate, 6–10 μm long × 6–8 μm broad. Akinetes solitary or in series, widely cylindrical, flatly rounded at the ends, (5.5–) 14–24 (–28) μm long × (5–) 7–12 μm broad, epispore smooth, brownish-green in colour, adjacent to and on either side of the heterocytes.
 Specimens examined:—Bill Gunn Dam, Burnett R. at Ned Churchward Weir, Fairbairn Dam, Paradise Dam, Sandy Ck at Wivenhoe-Somerset Rd Crossing, Sheepstation Ck at Kilcoy-Murgon Rd.
 Other records:— Queensland: SE Queensland, McLeod (1975); South Australia, River Murray at Ross Lagoon, Warren Res., Strathalbyn Res., Bundaleer Res., Baker (1991), Ling & Tyler (2000).
 Observations:—Growing on the benthos in shallow littoral areas of lakes and backwaters of streams, usually on fine, unconsolidated sediments. Considered a cosmopolitan species with a wide distribution (Komárek 2013).
description: Published as part of Mcgregor, Glenn B., 2018, Freshwater Cyanobacteria of North-Eastern Australia: 3. Nostocales, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 359 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13704051
A Simple Solution for Heat Transfer in a Triple Tube Heat Exchanger
Creators: name: Bertoli, Sávio L.
name: Tribess, Richard
name: de Souza, Natalia
name: de Souza, Carolina K.
name: Reiter, Mercedes G. R.
name: Gonçalves, Marcel Jefferson
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 39999 Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Triple tube heat exchangers in general perform better when compared to double tube heat exchangers, mainly because they improve the heat transfer due to the passage of additional fluid and also of its larger heat transfer area per length unit. Nevertheless, for triple tube heat exchangers, the analytical solutions available in the literature are limited to specific boundary conditions or are cumbersome. Therefore, this work aims to obtain a compact form of the analytical solution, suitable for co-current and counter-current flow arrangements. The solution form is developed based on a solution from literature for a co-current moving bed heat exchanger model, through analogies with triple tube heat exchangers. From the solution form, explicit expressions for the crossover points are also obtained. For a better understanding of the underlying physics, a scale analysis is performed. When compared to experimental data and more complicated solutions from literature, the obtained results presented good agreement.
ACCTING Factsheet: Local is beautiful
Creators: name: Altınay, Ayşe Gül
name: Borhan Türeli, Burcu
name: Cacace, Marina
name: Vivas, Ana B.
name: Strid, Sofia
name: Düzel, Esin
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: climate change
European Green Deal
policy recommendations
behavioural change
climate adaptation
resilience
inclusivity
vulnerable groups
marginalised groups

description: Gender+ inclusive agricultural policies and civil society practices for and with small farmers
 Agriculture and rural areas are central to the European Green Deal. With the growing food crisis, environmentally sustainable and gender+ inclusive small-scale farming has the potential to play a prominent role in food security, as well as in soil regeneration, reduction of land degradation, mitigation of disasters, and the preservation of biodiversity and cultural diversity. The majority of the 10 million farms in the EU are small farms, only 30% of which are managed by women. There is an increasing amount of literature establishing a link between gender and sustainability, especially regarding sustainable farming practices: women farmers are more often involved in alternative and environmentally friendly approaches.
 Yet, existing EU policies fall short of supporting environmentally sustainable, gender inclusive small farming, thereby strengthening existing vulnerabilities and missing opportunities to reach Green Deal objectives. Scientific literature indicates that to move future EU Common Agricultural Policy and other climate and rural policies towards a socially transformative, gender and ecologically-just direction, the push for gender equality will need to come from progressive farmers and civil society.
Anabaena willei Gardner 1927
Creators: name: Mcgregor, Glenn B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
Cyanophyceae
Nostocales
Nostocaceae
Anabaena
Anabaena willei

description: Anabaena cf. willei Gardner (1927: 60) Fig. 40 A–H.
Filaments single, growing amongst other algae, or in fine, unstructured mats on the benthos. Trichomes straight, not or slightly attenuated towards the ends, constricted at the cross walls. Vegetative cells cylindrical to barrel-shaped, 0.6–1.3 × longer than wide, 3.5–8.0 μm long × 4.3–5.5 (–6.5) μm wide, contents homogeneous, blue-green in colour; apical cells conical. Heterocytes intercalary, cylindrical 9.3–14.1 μm long × 5.9–7.6 μm wide. Akinetes cylindrical with bluntly rounded ends, adjacent to, or remote from heterocytes, solitary or up to five in series, 2–3 × longer than wide, 10–20 μm long × 5.0–8.5 μm wide, with smooth exospore.
 Specimens examined:—Palmer R. at NESP Red.
 Observations:—The material from north Queensland, as compared to the original description of A. willei from Puerto Rico, was slightly wider and had akinetes which lacked coloured exospores. The observed material formed fine, flat, mucilaginous mats on sandy and silty substrates in the littoral areas and backwaters of a tropical river.
description: Published as part of Mcgregor, Glenn B., 2018, Freshwater Cyanobacteria of North-Eastern Australia: 3. Nostocales, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 359 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13704051
Novel Porous Polymorphs of Zinc Cyanide with Rich Thermal and Mechanical Behavior
Creators: name: Trousselet, Fabien
name: Boutin, Anne
name: Coudert, François-Xavier
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate the feasibility of four-connected nets as hypothetical zinc cyanide polymorphs, as well as their thermal and mechanical properties, through quantum chemical calculations and molecular dynamics simulations. We confirm the metastability of the two porous phases recently discovered experimentally (Lapidus, S. H.; et al. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 2013, 135, 7621-7628), suggest the existence of seven novel porous phases of Zn(CN)2, and show that isotropic negative thermal expansion is a common occurrence among all members of this family of materials, with thermal expansion coefficients close to that of the dense dia-c phase. In constrast, we find a wide variety in the mechanical behavior of these porous structures with framework-dependent anisotropic compressibilities. All porous structures, however, show pressure-induced softening leading to a structural transition at modest pressure.
description: Chem. Mater. 2015
Optimal Temporal Logic Planning in Probabilistic Semantic Maps
Creators: name: Fu, Jie
name: Atanasov, Nikolay
name: Topcu, Ufuk
name: Pappas, George J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Robotics (cs.RO)
subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: I.2.9
subject: 68T40, 03B44

description: This paper considers robot motion planning under temporal logic constraints in probabilistic maps obtained by semantic simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM). The uncertainty in a map distribution presents a great challenge for obtaining correctness guarantees with respect to the linear temporal logic (LTL) specification. We show that the problem can be formulated as an optimal control problem in which both the semantic map and the logic formula evaluation are stochastic. Our first contribution is to reduce the stochastic control problem for a subclass of LTL to a deterministic shortest path problem by introducing a confidence parameter $delta$. A robot trajectory obtained from the deterministic problem is guaranteed to have minimum cost and to satisfy the logic specification in the true environment with probability $delta$. Our second contribution is to design an admissible heuristic function that guides the planning in the deterministic problem towards satisfying the temporal logic specification. This allows us to obtain an optimal and very efficient solution using the A* algorithm. The performance and correctness of our approach are demonstrated in a simulated semantic environment using a differential-drive robot.
description: 8 pages, 6 figures. submitted to IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation 2016
Search Patterns Through a Health-Information Site: Considering the Need for Complex Subject Indexing
Creators: name: Sokoloff, Jason K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006
Subjects: Thesauri
Consumer health information
Query expansion

description: This study considers the impact of taxonomy development on user query-expansion patterns at NC Health Info, a Web database of North Carolina online health and medical resources. In consideration of simplifying NC Health Info's taxonomy, user session logs were analyzed for selection frequency of general and specific topics and directional patterns between general and specific topics as initial and subsequent selectors. Based on a sampling of session logs over a seven-month period, users exhibited no clear preference for general or specific topics. In an analysis of topics deemed crucial to North Carolinians by a governor's task force, patterns illustrated a significant preference for specific topics over general topics. This research, and the results of previous studies regarding taxonomy development and query-expansion, suggests that a simple taxonomy would less effectively serve users.
Exploring the Effects of Searcher-Social Source Relationship When Seeking Information Online
Creators: name: Yang, Nevin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012
Subjects: Collaboration
Information retrieval--Social aspects
Online searching

description: Finding information has become an essential skill in daily life, and people often turn to other people for assistance in finding information. This research study explores the effects of social source composition when seeking information online, and the decision process on selecting social sources, a human information source used by a searcher to help with an information need that may affect the search process, to collaborate with when searching. One-on-one interviews with graduate students were conducted and common characteristics and themes emerged. Effect on the information need and the search process caused by the relationship between the searcher and social sources were observed. The factors of trust, familiarity, and authority in the social source impacted the information seeking process in areas of communication, information sharing, and information need. Despite the observed effects of searcher-social source relationship, success in satisfying an information need appears unaffected by relationship.
Perspectives of optical lattices with state-dependent tunneling in approaching quantum magnetism in the presence of the external harmonic trapping potential
Creators: name: Sotnikov, Andrii
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study theoretically potential advantages of two-component mixtures in optical lattices with state-dependent tunneling for approaching long-range-order phases and detecting easy-axis antiferromagnetic correlations. While we do not find additional advantages of mixtures with large hopping imbalance for approaching quantum magnetism in a harmonic trap, it is shown that a nonzero difference in hopping amplitudes remains highly important for a proper symmetry breaking in the pseudospin space for the single-site-resolution imaging and can be advantageously used for a significant increase of the signal-to-noise ratio and thus detecting long-range easy-axis antiferromagnetic correlations in the corresponding experiments.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
MS Gr. class. c. 4 962
Creators: name: Oxyrhynchus Papyri
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470316
subject: Latin and classical Greek languages

description: P.Herc. 1077 col. 46 col. 47. Philodemus, De pietate
Drawing by G.B. Malesci
Light meson electromagnetic form factors from three-flavor lattice QCD with exact chiral symmetry
Creators: name: JLQCD Collaboration
name: Aoki, S.
name: Cossu, G.
name: Feng, X.
name: Hashimoto, S.
name: Kaneko, T.
name: Noaki, J.
name: Onogi, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the chiral behavior of the electromagnetic (EM) form factors of pion and kaon in three-flavor lattice QCD. In order to make a direct comparison of the lattice data with chiral perturbation theory (ChPT), we employ the overlap quark action that has exact chiral symmetry. Gauge ensembles are generated at a lattice spacing of 0.11 fm with four pion masses ranging between M_pi \simeq 290 MeV and 540 MeV and with a strange quark mass m_s close to its physical value. We utilize the all-to-all quark propagator technique to calculate the EM form factors with high precision. Their dependence on m_s and on the momentum transfer is studied by using the reweighting technique and the twisted boundary conditions for the quark fields, respectively. A detailed comparison with SU(2) and SU(3) ChPT reveals that the next-to-next-to-leading order terms in the chiral expansion are important to describe the chiral behavior of the form factors in the pion mass range studied in this work. We estimate the relevant low-energy constants and the charge radii, and find reasonable agreement with phenomenological and experimental results.
description: 59 pages, 34 figures
Developing a model for objectively evaluating the performance of project managers
Creators: name: Goldston, David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1999
Subjects: Employee Evaluation--Measures
Performance Measures
Performance Measures--Project Managers
Project Managers--Performance Measures
Employee Evaluation--Performance Measures

description: This paper describes the importance for managers of setting goals and objectives with employees, tying those goals and objectives to the organization's strategic goals and objectives. It suggests that combining the Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale with objective measures of performance can allow a manager to help his or her employees improve their performance. This paper describes using this approach to evaluate the performance of project managers.
Aulosira laxa Kirchner ex Bornet & Flahault 1886
Creators: name: Mcgregor, Glenn B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
Cyanophyceae
Nostocales
Nostocaceae
Aulosira
Aulosira laxa

description: Aulosira laxa Kirchner ex Bornet & Flahault (1886: 256) Fig. 43 A–C.
Filaments solitary or loosely entangled in mats, straight or flexuous, 8–10 (–11.5) wide. Sheaths fine, firm, colourless, sometimes diffluent, not lamellated. Trichomes ± cylindrical, constricted at the cross walls, not attenuated towards the apex. Vegetative cells barrel-shaped, shorter than wide, blue-green in colour, (3.5–) 4.2–5.3 μm long × 7.0–8.2 μm wide. Heterocytes intercalary, solitary, ± spherical to cylindrical, 7.0–8.5 μm wide. Akinetes solitary or in short series, cylindrical, remote or adjacent to the heterocytes, 15–25 μm long × 5–8 μm wide, with smooth colourless exospore.
 Specimens examined:—Toogoom Lagoon, Northshore.
 Observations:—Growing amongst other algae and submerged aquatic plants in a shallow eutrophic urban lagoon.
description: Published as part of Mcgregor, Glenn B., 2018, Freshwater Cyanobacteria of North-Eastern Australia: 3. Nostocales, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 359 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13704051
The Graphic Novel Gap:  Collection Strength and School Librarian Understandings of Graphic Novel Benefits
Creators: name: Stivers, Julie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015
Subjects: Graphic novels
Literacy
School libraries--Collection development

description: Educators and researchers advocate for including graphic novels in both the school library and curriculum, as a wide range of literacy benefits have been identified for both specific groups of youth-and students as a whole.  Despite this professional advice however, school librarians differ in the extent and manner in which they collect and promote these materials.  This research examined school librarian attitudes, behaviors, and collection habits regarding graphic novels to better understand the reasoning behind collection choices and how these factors were affected by librarians' knowledge of graphic novel benefits.  Interview data and collection analyses comparing libraries with study-specified strong and weak collections showed that expressed belief in the importance of graphic novels did not always translate into accompanying levels of use.  Those libraries with the strongest collections, however, promoted the format heavily in their own libraries and advocated graphic novel use throughout their schools.
Aulosira epiphytica Hindakova & Hindak 2017
Creators: name: Mcgregor, Glenn B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
Cyanophyceae
Nostocales
Nostocaceae
Aulosira
Aulosira epiphytica

description: Aulosira cf. epiphytica (Gardner) Hindáková & Hindák (2017: 495) Fig. 42 A–F.
 Basionym: Nodularia epiphytica Gardner 1927
Filaments solitary, or in ± irregular parallel arrangements, straight or slightly flexuous, attached to the substrate along the entire length, 5.9–6.8 μm wide. Sheath fine, firm, colourless, not lamellated, open at the ends. Trichome cylindrical, distinctly constricted at the cross walls, not attenuated towards the ends. Vegetative cells barrel-shaped, pale blue-green to olive-green in colour, 4.1–6.6 μm long × 4.7–5.5 μm wide; apical cell round to shortly conical. Heterocytes intercalary, oval to shortly cylindrical, 4.8–7.7 μm wide × 4.6–6.3 μm long. Akinetes long cylindrical, solitary or two in series, remote from heterocytes, 4.6–6.8 μm wide × 8.8–15.5 μm long.
 Specimens examined:—Atkinson Dam.
 Observations:—Growing attached to the substrate and amongst submerged aquatic plants in the littoral area of a subtropical reservoir. Gardner (1927) originally described A. epiphytica (as Nodularia epiphytica) from tropical habitats in Puerto Rico, where it was observed growing attached to aquatic plants. Hindáková & Hindák (2017) studied epiphytic material attached to filamentous algae from the littoral area of irrigation channels in Southern Slovakia, and transferred this species to Aulosira. This material from SE Queensland was only observed from the benthos of an artificial lake, not epiphytically as in previous observations from elsewhere.
description: Published as part of Mcgregor, Glenn B., 2018, Freshwater Cyanobacteria of North-Eastern Australia: 3. Nostocales, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 359 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13704051
Study of the stellar population properties in the discs of ten spiral galaxies
Creators: name: Morelli, L.
name: Corsini, E. M.
name: Pizzella, A.
name: Bontà, E. Dalla
name: Coccato, L.
name: Méndez-Abreu, J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigated the properties of the stellar populations in the discs of a sample of ten spiral galaxies. Our analysis focused on the galaxy region where the disc contributes more than 95 per cent of total surface brightness in order to minimise the contamination of the bulge and bar. The luminosity-weighted age and metallicity were obtained by fitting the galaxy spectra with a linear combination of stellar population synthesis models, while the total overabundance of α-elements over iron was derived by measuring the line-strength indices. Most of the sample discs display a bimodal age distribution and they are characterised by a total [α/Fe] enhancement ranging from solar and supersolar. We interpreted the age bimodality as due to the simultaneous presence of both a young (Age$\,\leq\,4$ Gyr) and an old (Age$\,>\,$4 Gyr) stellar population. The old stellar component usually dominates the disc surface brightness and its light contribution is almost constant within the observed radial range. For this reason, no age gradient is observed in half of the sample galaxies. The old component is slightly more metal poor than the young one. The metallicity gradient is negative and slightly positive in the old and young components, respectively. These results are in agreement with an inside-out scenario of disc formation and suggest a reduced impact of the radial migration on the stellar populations of the disc. The young component could be the result of a second burst of star formation in gas captured from the environment.
description: 13 pages 15 figures and 6 tables, MNRAS in press
An RR Lyrae family portrait: 33 stars observed in Pisces with K2-E2
Creators: name: Molnár, L.
name: Szabó, R.
name: Moskalik, P. A.
name: Nemec, J. M.
name: Guggenberger, E.
name: Smolec, R.
name: Poleski, R.
name: Plachy, E.
name: Kolenberg, K.
name: Kolláth, Z.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A detailed analysis is presented of 33 RR Lyrae stars in Pisces observed with the Kepler space telescope over the 8.9-day long K2 Two-Wheel Concept Engineering Test. The sample includes not only fundamental-mode and first overtone (RRab and RRc) stars but the first two double-mode (RRd) stars that Kepler detected and the only modulated first-overtone star ever observed from space so far. The precision of the extracted K2 light curves made it possible to detect low-amplitude additional modes in all subtypes. All RRd and non-modulated RRc stars show the additional mode at P_X/P_1~0.61 that was detected in previous space-based photometric measurements. A periodicity longer than the fundamental mode was tentatively identified in one RRab star that might belong to a gravity mode. We determined the photometric [Fe/H] values for all fundamental-mode stars and provide the preliminary results of our efforts to fit the double-mode stars with non-linear hydrodynamic pulsation models. The results from this short test run indicate that the K2 mission will be, and has started to be, an ideal tool to expand our knowledge about RR Lyrae stars. As a by-product of the target search and analysis, we identified 165 bona-fide double-mode RR Lyrae stars from the Catalina Sky Survey observations throughout the sky, 130 of which are new discoveries.
description: 15 pages, 14 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS. Data files can be accessed at http://konkoly.hu/KIK/data.html
The Phoenix stream: a cold stream in the Southern hemisphere
Creators: name: Balbinot, E.
name: Yanny, B.
name: Li, T. S.
name: Santiago, B.
name: Marshall, J. L.
name: Finley, D. A.
name: Pieres, A.
name: Abbott, T. M. C.
name: Abdalla, F. B.
name: Allam, S.
name: Benoit-Lévy, A.
name: Bernstein, G. M.
name: Bertin, E.
name: Brooks, D.
name: Burke, D. L.
name: Rosell, A. Carnero
name: Kind, M. Carrasco
name: Carretero, J.
name: Cunha, C. E.
name: da Costa, L. N.
name: DePoy, D. L.
name: Desai, S.
name: Diehl, H. T.
name: Doel, P.
name: Estrada, J.
name: Flaugher, B.
name: Frieman, J.
name: Gerdes, D. W.
name: Gruen, D.
name: Gruendl, R. A.
name: Honscheid, K.
name: James, D. J.
name: Kuehn, K.
name: Kuropatkin, N.
name: Lahav, O.
name: March, M.
name: Martini, P.
name: Miquel, R.
name: Nichol, R. C.
name: Ogando, R.
name: Romer, A. K.
name: Sanchez, E.
name: Schubnell, M.
name: Sevilla-Noarbe, I.
name: Smith, R. C.
name: Soares-Santos, M.
name: Sobreira, F.
name: Suchyta, E.
name: Tarle, G.
name: Thomas, D.
name: Tucker, D.
name: Walker, A. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report the discovery of a stellar stream in the Dark Energy Survey (DES) Year 1 (Y1A1) data. The discovery was made through simple color-magnitude filters and visual inspection of the Y1A1 data. We refer to this new object as the Phoenix stream, after its resident constellation. After subtraction of the background stellar population we detect a clear signal of a simple stellar population. By fitting the ridge line of the stream in color-magnitude space, we find that a stellar population with age $τ=11.5\pm0.5$ Gyr and $[Fe/H]
description: 8 pages, 5 figures. Accepted to ApJ. See also Li et al. 2016 (ApJ...817..135L)
Accurate theoretical prediction on positron lifetime of bulk materials
Creators: name: Zhang, Wenshuai
name: Gu, Bingchuan
name: Liu, Jiandang
name: Ye, Bangjiao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Based on the first-principles calculations, we perform an initiatory statistical assessment on the reliability level of theoretical positron lifetime of bulk material. We found the original generalized gradient approximation (GGA) form of the enhancement factor and correlation potentials overestimates the effect of the gradient factor. Furthermore, an excellent agreement between model and data with the difference being the noise level of the data is found in this work. In addition, we suggest a new GGA form of the correlation scheme which gives the best performance. This work demonstrates that a brand-new reliability level is achieved for the theoretical prediction on positron lifetime of bulk material and the accuracy of the best theoretical scheme can be independent on the type of materials.
description: 9 pages, 2 figure, 3 tables
Cylindrospermum licheniforme Kutzing ex Bornet & Flahault 1886
Creators: name: Mcgregor, Glenn B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
Cyanophyceae
Nostocales
Nostocaceae
Cylindrospermum
Cylindrospermum licheniforme

description: Cylindrospermum licheniforme Kützing ex Bornet & Flahault (1886: 253) Fig. 44 A–F.
Thallus mucilaginous, flat, amorphous, pale blue-green to brown in colour. Trichomes flexuous, constricted at the cross walls. Vegetative cells cylindrical barrel-shaped, isodiametric or slightly longer than wide, 4.5–7.0 μm long × 3.5–7.0 μm broad, without aerotopes. Heterocytes elongate conical or ovoid, 7–12 μm long × 7–8 μm broad, adjacent to akinetes. Akinetes elliptical to broadly ovate, 20–43 μm long × 10–14 μm broad, with smooth reddish-brown exospore.
 Specimens examined:—Balonne R. at Weribone, Condamine R. at Cotswold, Condamine R. at Leslie Reserve, Condamine R. at Sunnyside, Condamine R. at Yarramalong, Coopers Ck Yorakah Waterhole at Tanbar, Culgoa R. at Woolerbilla, Little Yabba Ck at Maleny Kenilworth Rd Crossing, Narran R. at Dirrandandi-Hebel Rd, Thomson R. Waterloo Waterhole at Noonbah, Yabba Ck at Stirling’s Crossing, Wenlock R. at Moreton.
 Other records:— Queensland: Bailey (1895), Bailey (1913), McLeod (1975), Möbius (1895); New South Wales: Paterson R., Pound Crossing Bridge, Singleton-Gresford Rd, Entwisle, 1991 (MEL).
 Observations:—Forming thin, unstructured mucilaginous mats on the substrate, or attached to submerged aquatic plants. Known from throughout temperate and subtropical areas. Komárek (2013) considers C. licheniforme to be a temperate species and populations from tropical countries most likely to be C. goetzei, a species which Playfair (1918) described as intermingled with C. stagnale from Lismore, New South Wales.
description: Published as part of Mcgregor, Glenn B., 2018, Freshwater Cyanobacteria of North-Eastern Australia: 3. Nostocales, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 359 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13704051
Community Analysis Methods and Program Performance
Creators: name: Doyle, Forest
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013
Subjects: Information needs
Libraries and community--United States
Public libraries--Activity programs

description: Community analysis techniques have been proposed as ways that public libraries can assess the information needs of their communities. Despite the need for community assessment or analysis, very little research has been done to compare the various techniques used by public libraries for gathering information about the service population. Using the libraries participating in the Building Common Ground initiative, this study attempted to see if there is a correlation between techniques used and the performance of subsequent programming. While failing to meet standards of statistical significance, the quantitative and qualitative data gathered through the study suggests that certain techniques, as well as the use of several techniques together, are associated with increased program performance.
D1.10– Final version of the MAGIC Decision Support System (DSS)
Creators: name: McCullum, Ian
name: Monti, Andrea
name: Canetti, Federica
name: Elberson, Ferien
name: van Eupen, Michiel
name: Staritsky, Igor
name: Dahl, Svenja
name: Banduka, Dušica
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biomass
Biobased
Marginal Lands
BioFuels

description: Several studies agree on the existence of a considerable amount of land in Europe deemed less favourable for conventional agriculture. This land has been either abandoned because of its productivity, or it is used as grassland. MAGIC is based on the premise that cultivation of selected industrial crops on areas facing natural constraints (e.g., extreme climatic conditions, low soil productivity, steep slope, etc.) can i) ensure the production of resource-efficient feedstocks, with low indirect land-use change (iLUC), for a growing bio-based industry, and ii) increase farmers’ incomes through access to new markets and the revalorization of marginal land.

 This Deliverable (D1.10) describes the final version of the Decision Support System (DSS), aiming to provide the underlying information as required from above and generated within the MAGIC project for various interested stakeholders across Europe. The marginal land area, marginality factors and associated information can now be visualized and queried at the Local Administrative Unit (LAU-2), which equates to the municipal level in most countries. For the Ukraine, the comparable administrative level was used.
 All three related information platforms (MAGIC-MAPS, MAGIC-CROPS and the MAGIC-DSS) are available at http://magic-h2020.eu/.
元: a multi-omics data resources for exploring animal microbial genomes and microbiomes
Creators: name: Hu, Ruirui
name: Li, Fulin
name: Chen, Yifan
name: Yang, Qing-Yong
name: Ni, Wei
name: hu, shengwei
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 310299
subject: Bioinformatics and computational biology not elsewhere classified

description: 动物元组学景观数据库（AnimalMetaOmics，https://yanglab.hzau.edu.cn/animalmetaomics#/https://yanglab.hzau.edu.cn/animalmetaomics#/）是一个全面且免费提供的资源，包括来自各种非人类动物物种的宏基因组、宏转录组和宏蛋白质组学数据，并提供有关动物微生物组的丰富信息，包括微生物同源基因的聚类分析、功能基因注释、活性微生物群组成、基因表达丰度和微生物蛋白鉴定。在这项工作中，注释了来自55种动物的898,581个微生物基因组，包括42,924个细菌基因组，12,336个病毒基因组，496个古菌基因组和142个真菌基因组。此外，分析了来自321种动物的31个宏转录组数据集和来自326种动物的679个宏蛋白质组学数据集，以及来自动物宿主的13种细菌和<>种古菌的泛基因组动力学和组成特征。研究人员可以通过用户友好的界面有效地访问和获取跨宿主微生物群的信息，例如物种、基因组、活性水平、表达的蛋白质序列和功能以及泛基因组组成。这些宝贵的资源为更好地探索动物微生物群的分类、功能多样性、生物过程多样性和功能基因提供了重要参考。
BCVEGPY2.2: A Newly Upgraded Version for Hadronic Production of the Meson $B_c$ and Its Excited States
Creators: name: Chang, Chao-Hsi
name: Wang, Xian-You
name: Wu, Xing-Gang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A newly upgraded version of the BCVEGPY, a generator for hadronic production of the meson $B_c$ and its excited states, is available. In comparison with the previous one [C.H. Chang, J.X. Wang and X.G. Wu, Comput. Phys. Commun. {\bf 175}, 624 (2006)], the new version is to apply an improved hit-and-miss technology to generating the un-weighted events much more efficiently under various simulation environments. The codes for production of $2S$-wave $B_c$ states are also given here.
description: 4 pages, 1 figures
Design Standards for LibGuides: Does Better Design Lead to Greater Use?
Creators: name: Slemons, Megan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013
Subjects: Library resources--Computer network resources
Computer-assisted instruction
Academic libraries

description: Web-based research guides are a major service provided by academic libraries, which require a significant investment of staff time to create and maintain. These guides, however, are not heavily used. Librarians need to understand the factors influencing the use a guide receives in order to make improvements that will increase usage. The literature suggests many design standards for guides to follow, but no quantitative assessment has been undertaken to determine whether good design really does increase research guide use.
In a case study of LibGuides at Kennesaw State University, use of guides is regressed against a specific list of design and usability standards based on the library science and web design literature. The results demonstrate the effect each variable has on use and how well design predicts use overall. A list of standard design recommendations is presented, and other factors influencing guide use are also considered.
Cylindrospermum stagnale ex Bornet & Flahault 1888
Creators: name: Mcgregor, Glenn B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
Cyanophyceae
Nostocales
Nostocaceae
Cylindrospermum
Cylindrospermum stagnale

description: Cylindrospermum stagnale (Kützing) ex Bornet & Flahault (1888: 250) Fig. 43 I–L.
Thallus mucilaginous, flat, amorphous, blue-green to greyish green in colour. Trichomes flexuous, constricted at the cross walls. Vegetative cells isodiametric or up to 2 × longer than wide, 4.5–7.0 μm long × 3.5–5.0 μm broad, without aerotopes. Heterocytes elongate conical or ovoid, 7–16 μm long × 5–8 μm broad, adjacent to akinetes. Akinetes cylindrical to broadly oval, rounded at the ends, 20–45 μm long × 10–15 μm broad, with smooth reddish-brown exospore.
 Specimens examined:—Babinda Ck at the Boulders, Soda Springs, Yabba Ck at Stirling’s Crossing.
 Other records:— Queensland: Mt Crosby, Queensland, A.B. Cribb, 1963 (BRI 0700614); New South Wales: Irrigation channel, Griffith-Leeton Rd, S. Skinner, 2001 (NSW 627239), Deer Park R., Waterfall Way, Dorrigo-Ebor Rd, S. Skinner, 2000 (NSW 481099), Zoom Ck, N of Walcha, S. Skinner, 2000 (NSW 446041).
 Observations:—Cosmopolitan species, growing amongst other algae, and attached to aquatic vegetation and woody debris (Komárek 2013); in northern Australia, more commonly encountered in cooler high-altitude streams.
description: Published as part of Mcgregor, Glenn B., 2018, Freshwater Cyanobacteria of North-Eastern Australia: 3. Nostocales, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 359 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13704051
Sculpting quasi one-dimensional Bose-Einstein condensate to generate calibrated matter-waves
Creators: name: Akram, Javed
name: Pelster, Axel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore theoretically how to tune the dynamics of a quasi one-dimensional harmonically trapped Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC) due to an additional red- and blue-detuned Hermite-Gaussian dimple trap (HGdT). To this end we study a BEC in a highly non-equilibrium state, which is not possible in a traditional harmonically confined trap. Our system is modeled by a time-dependent Gross-Pitaevskii equation, which is numerically solved by the Crank-Nicolson method in both imaginary and real time. For equilibrium, we obtain a condensate with two bumps/dips which are induced by the chosen TEM$_{01}$ mode for the red/blue-detuned HGdT, respectively. Afterwards, in time-of-flight dynamics, we examine the adherence/decay of the two bumps/dips in the condensate, which are induced by the still present red/blue-detuned HGdT, respectively. On the other hand, once the red/blue HGdT potential is switched off, shock-waves or bi-trains of gray/dark pair-solitons are created. During this process it is found that the generation of gray/dark pair-solitons bi-trains are generic phenomena of collisions of moderately/fully fragmented BEC. Additionally, it turns out that the special shape of generated solitons in the harmonically trapped BEC firmly depends upon the geometry of the HGdT.
"Her Book Not His": Women and Their Book Collections in Medieval And Early Modern Europe
Creators: name: Ellison, Melinda
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2001
Subjects: Women--History--Renaissance, 1450-1600
Women--History--Middle Ages, 500-1500
Book Collectors
Women--History--Modern Period, 1600-
Women book collectors

description: This paper examines book ownership by women in the medieval and early modern periods in Europe. The primary aim of this paper is to synthesize the diverse and fragmentary scholarship on women book collectors in an accessible single source. The secondary aim is to provide an historical overview of the changing social practices of European women who owned libraries, as those practices developed from the ninth to the eighteenth centuries. This paper summarizes existing research into a coherent narrative that describes and explains the histories and contexts of women book collectors throughout Europe, with a focus on the issues and problems of scholarship on book ownership. Topics discussed include the history of books, women's role in the growth of vernacular literature, how women accessed and acquired books, determining book ownership among women, women's literacy, and books written or produced for women. Specific examples and case studies are used to illustrate selected issues, problems, and topics.
Nostoc commune Vaucher ex Bornet & Flahault 1888
Creators: name: Mcgregor, Glenn B.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2018
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Bacteria
Cyanobacteria
Cyanophyceae
Nostocales
Nostocaceae
Nostoc
Nostoc commune

description: Nostoc commune Vaucher ex Bornet & Flahault (1888: 203) Fig. 48 A–D.
Colonies macroscopic, gelatinous, irregularly spherical when immature, later irregularly flattened or wavy, up to 15 cm in diameter, olive-green to yellow-green or brown in colour with firm periderm. Filaments flexuous, densely entangled, sheaths yellow-brown, sometimes lamellated. Vegetative cells shortly barrel-shaped to spherical, isodiametric or longer or shorter than wide, 3.0–5.5 (–7) μm long × 4.0–4.3 (–6) μm wide. Heterocytes subspherical, sometimes in series, both terminal and intercalary, 5.5–8.4 μm long × 5.0–8.0 μm wide. Akinetes 4–7 μm long × 5–6 μm wide with smooth colourless cell wall.
 Specimens examined:—Atkinson Dam, Mary R. at Gympie.
Other records:— Queensland: Marlong Ck at Marlong Caves, Mt Moffat, A.B. Cribb, 1986 (BRI 0701396), Surveyors Gully, Lake Broadwater, A.B. Cribb, 1986 (BRI 0701397), Sundown Natl Park, A.B. Cribb, 1985 (BRI 0701398), Big Bend area of Burdekin R., A.B. Cribb, 1981 (BRI 0701400), Darluca near Landsborough, A.B. Cribb, 1975 (BRI 0701405), Mt Cordeaux, A.B. Cribb, 1951 (BRI 0701412), Scawfell Is., A.B. Cribb, 1994 (BRI 0715673), Cribb (1971), Cribb (1984), SE Queensland, McLeod (1975); Victoria: Darling (1982), Watts (1887); New South Wales: cemetery, corner of Sydney Rd and Great Western Hwy, St Marys, S. Skinner, 2015 (NSW 848499), The Toll House, South Ck, Windsor, S. Skinner, 2015 (NSW 848501), White Gum Lookout, Coonamble, T.J. Entwisle, 2000 (NSW 627469), May (1970). South Australia: Mt Lofty, J.B. Cleland, 1922 (AD 54527). Western Australia: Northern end of Lake Coogee, Beeliar Regional Park, C. Prideaux, 2013 (PERTH 8560862), Warren Beach, Northcliffe, B. Muir, 1972 (PERTH 7051980).
 Observations:—Subaerophytic species, commonly found growing on edge of streams and wetlands on wet loamy substrates.
description: Published as part of Mcgregor, Glenn B., 2018, Freshwater Cyanobacteria of North-Eastern Australia: 3. Nostocales, pp. 448-450 in Phytotaxa 359 (1) on pages 448-450, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.359.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/13704051