cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Florida’s Multiple Approaches to Addressing Rural Mobility
Creators: name: Goodwill, Jay A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: The State of Florida presents many challenges to public transportation providers due to its diverse development patterns and multiple population segments. While the state is commonly thought of as dense and urbanized, Florida is also significantly influenced by rural communities. Like in other states, rural mobility is especially challenging for some residents due to longer trips, limited and declining infrastructure, and lack of available options and resources. Accessible, affordable, and reliable transportation is a critical component to community inclusion. Having access to community resources is essential to fostering independence and self-sufficiency. This article provides an overview of the mobility challenges faced by rural Floridians as well as some of the programs and approaches that the state has undertaken to address this need. Many of the initiatives highlighted below are Floridian applications of existing federal programs; thus, they can be implemented in any state to address rural residents’ mobility challenges.
Vibrarcharticle.pdf
Creators: name: Jimenez-Puerto, Joaquín
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 430101
subject: Archaeological science

description: The required conditions for the appearance of the urban life in the IberianPeninsula start with Neolithic arrival to these coasts. The introduction of acattle-farming combined economy is the arrival point for the spread of thesedentary way of life, which will conduct to the development ofthe social procedures needed for the development of the future urbanphenomenon, later in the Iron Age.Iron Age will be the moment when the hierarchical organization, the controlof the territory and the rising of a deeper degree of planning in thesettlements, reach a tangible level in the archaeologicalrecord. But such phenomenon will not pop up suddenly in the eastern Iberiastage, and it will be the consequence of a series of previous socialprocesses. The changes in the habitat and in occupation patterns areobvious, during the Neolithic, Chalcolithic and the Bronze Age.The purpose of this work is the study of the evolution in the social changes byanalysing their imprints in the habitat: settlements, houses, topology andconstruction techniques used in the buildings, from Neolithic to Bronze Age(5000-1800 BC), in the Iberian Levant zone, using data from the betterknown archaeological sites.
title: Der Gang in den Schatten der Macht. Warum engagiert man sich überhaupt in einer Klein(st)partei?
title: Walking in the Shadows of Power. Why Get Involved in a Small or Marginal Party at all?
titleType: AlternativeTitle
Creators: name: Bartels, Jan-Eric
name: Springer, Frederik
Publisher: name: Wiesbaden : Springer VS
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Party members
subject: Small parties
subject: Marginal parties
subject: General incentives model
subject: Motivations
subject: Kleinparteien
subject: Kleinstparteien
subject: Parteimitglieder
subject: General-Incentives-Modell
subject: Motivationen
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::320 | Politik

description: Ein erheblicher Anteil der Parteimitglieder in Deutschland entfällt auf Kleinparteien und Kleinstparteien. So stellt die Gruppe der Klein(st)parteien summiert die drittmeisten Parteimitglieder in Deutschland. In Anbetracht einer wachsenden Anzahl und eines zunehmenden Stimmenanteils von Klein(st)parteien ist von einer steigenden Relevanz ihrer Mitgliedschaft auszugehen. Über diese große Gruppe ist, trotz vieler Untersuchungen von Parteimitgliedern im Allgemeinen, bisher sehr wenig bekannt. Dieser Beitrag ermittelt mit Schwerpunkt auf dem General-Incentives-Modell die Motivationen für den „Gang in den Schatten der Macht“. Mittels Rückgriff auf Daten der Deutschen Parteimitgliederstudie 2009 wird gezeigt, dass die Mitgliedschaft in einer Klein(st)partei vor allem durch die Unzufriedenheit mit politischen Akteuren und dem System insgesamt sowie aus ideologischer Motivation gespeist wird. Klein(st)parteimitglieder sind ferner aktiver in ihrer Partei, verknüpfen mit ihrer Mitgliedschaft eher die Übernahme von Parteiämtern und ziehen eine größere Befriedigung aus ihrer Mitgliedschaft.
description: A considerable proportion of party members in Germany belong to small and marginal parties. Thus, the group of small and marginal parties is in third place when it comes to party members in Germany. In view of the growing number and share of votes of small and marginal parties, it can be assumed that their membership is becoming increasingly relevant. Little is known about this large group, despite many studies centering on party members in general. This paper focuses on the general incentives model to determine the motivations for “going into the shadow of power.” Using data from the German Party Membership Study of 2009, it is shown that membership in a small or marginal party is mainly driven by dissatisfaction with political actors and the political system and by ideological motivation. Members of small and marginal parties are also more active in their party, tend to associate their membership with the assumption of a party office, and derive greater satisfaction from their membership.
title: QAnon and the Rebirth of the Satanic Panic in the Digital Age
Creators: name: Hearst, Megan
Publisher: name: Georgetown University. Communication, Culture & Technology Graduate Program
Year: 2022

description: The dramatic rise of the novel conspiracy theory known as QAnon had many observers wondering how a belief system so divorced from reality could gain traction in the modern networked era. This paper seeks to answer that question by comparing the QAnon movement with the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. Like QAnon, the Satanic Panic rallied its believers around baseless claims of cultic child abuse and murder. This paper argues that the recurrence of such a belief system is the byproduct of a profound shift in how citizens consume information, comparing the deregulation of television in the 1980s to the adoption of social media as a legitimate news source in the present day. In both cases, the entrance of novel forms of media, which lacked sufficient regulatory standards, allowed ideologically and monetarily motivated individuals to enter the public sphere and peddle dangerously false information, eventually fomenting widespread moral panic. Hopefully, by looking towards the past for answers, this paper can help us understand why such panics occur and how the same media systems that helped to generate these panics can also stop them.
The vast thin plane of M31 co-rotating dwarfs: an additional fossil signature of the M31 merger and of its considerable impact in the whole Local Group
Creators: name: Hammer, François
name: Yang, Yanbin
name: Fouquet, Sylvain
name: Pawlowski, Marcel S.
name: Kroupa, Pavel
name: Puech, Mathieu
name: Flores, Hector
name: Wang, Jianling
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The recent discovery by Ibata et al. (2013) of a vast thin disk of satellites (VTDS) around M31 offers a new challenge for the understanding of the Local Group properties. This comes in addition to the unexpected proximity of the Magellanic Clouds (MCs) to the Milky Way (MW), and to another vast polar structure (VPOS), which is almost perpendicular to our Galaxy disk. We find that the VTDS plane is coinciding with several stellar, tidally-induced streams in the outskirts of M31, and, that its velocity distribution is consistent with that of the Giant Stream (GS). This is suggestive of a common physical mechanism, likely linked to merger tidal interactions, knowing that a similar argument may apply to the VPOS at the MW location. Furthermore, the VTDS is pointing towards the MW, being almost perpendicular to the MW disk, as the VPOS is. We compare these properties to the modelling of M31 as an ancient, gas-rich major merger, which has been successfully used to predict the M31 substructures and the GS origin. We find that without fine tuning, the induced tidal tails are lying in the VTDS plane, providing a single and common origin for many stellar streams and for the vast stellar structures surrounding both the MW and M31. The model also reproduces quite accurately positions and velocities of the VTDS dSphs. Our conjecture leads to a novel interpretation of the Local Group past history, as a gigantic tidal tail due to the M31 ancient merger is expected to send material towards the MW, including the MCs. Such a link between M31 and the MW is expected to be quite exceptional, though it may be in qualitative agreement with the reported rareness of MW-MCs systems in nearby galaxies.
description: Accepted for publication in MNRAS, 8 pages, 3 figures
title: GOES-R Socioeconomic Benefits Study: Phase 2 – Assessments of Additional Products and Services
Creators: name: Lubar, David G.
name: Jamilkowski, Michael L.
name: Lazo, Jeffrey K.
name: Civil Spectrum Engineering and Management
name: Jeffrey K. Lazo Consulting LLC
name: Goddard Space Flight Center
Publisher: name: United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Year: 2022

description: In this second phase of the GOES-R Socioeconomic Benefits Study, our goal was to undertake preliminary assessments of multiple other GOES-R-related benefits areas. To accomplish this, our objectives were to pursue the additional product/benefit areas for analysis and valuation by (1) using benefit transfers from other existing relevant studies and (2) utilizing the NESDIS TPIO NOAA Observing Systems Integrated Analysis (NOSIA) GOES-R refresh data for the GOES-R contribution percentages. This assessment must be understood to be preliminary due to limited resources (manpower and time).
description: Aerospace Technical Report ; ATR-2022-02019
Supplementary document for Experimental demonstration of in-situ surface and thickness profile measurement of thin film during deposition using a grating array based wavefront sensor - 6073564.pdf
Creators: name: Kumar, Nagendra
name: PATHAK, BISWAJIT
name: Kesarwani, Rahul
name: Goswami, Sumit
name: Khare, Alika
name: Boruah, Bosanta
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2022
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplement 1: More details on minimum required reflectivity, observed deposition rates and a comparison of the proposed method with the existing methods
Evaluating the Urban Trench Model for Improved Positioning in Urban Areas
Creators: name: Icking, Lucy
Publisher: name: Hannover : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universität, Institut für Erdmessung
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: multipath
subject: 3D map aided GNSS
subject: signal reflection
subject: Urban GNSS
subject: GNSS
subject: 3D Gebäudemodell
subject: Mehrwegeeffekte
subject: Hannover
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik

description: Urban environments still form a challenge for Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) positioning due to its diffcult conditions for signal propagation. Many obstruction sources disturb the GNSS signal, signal loss or multipath are examples for effects occurring in these cases. This work focuses on an approach which distinguishes visible line-of-sight (LOS) satellite signals from obstructed non-line-of-sight (NLOS) signals. These are determined in a self-developed algorithm with the help of a 3D CityModel that is provided by the city of Hanover. For the evaluation, a kinematic experiment is conducted with geodetic and high-sensitivity receivers in a repeated trajectory. Further sensors were used to generate a reference trajectory. Open questions not only concern the signal characterization with respect to LOS/NLOS properties but also to what extent NLOS observations can be used in a constructive sense. Therefore, reflection points of NLOS signals are calculated, examined and introduced in a Single Point Positioning (SPP) solution. Additionally, these issues are put in the context of different receivers, each of which has different properties and hence diverse outcomes. Results show that the LOS status can be determined reliably but that the computed detour lengths not always match the Observed Minus Computed (OMC) values. Taking only those additional path lengths into account that fit the OMC, an improvement could be achieved in an SPP solution. Further findings show that OMC are especially high in street sections that have a perpendicular orientation compared to the satellite's azimuth angle.
People of IASSIST: who are pushed out and who are or pulled in?
Creators: name: Bonifacio, Flavio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: User behaviour
Membership analysis

description: In VAC of IASSIST Sweden 2022 the following questions have been posed: We need to know more about what members want. How to meet their needs better beyond a conference? Do we want to be more global? Why do people not stay? Understand why people stay and why do people come to one conference and not return. How get people to be long term people? What do people want from the conference? In this presentation I will try to answer those questions. I will do that by using two tools: The analysis of IASSIST members in last ten year, building a stop and go model of their behaviours: which stay, which one went away, which one think to go away (in terms of structural variables) and the analysis of a questionnaire related to what they think about the usefulness of IASSIST conferences and other related topics
Huge field-effect surface charge injection and conductance modulation in metallic thin films by electrochemical gating
Creators: name: Tortello, M.
name: Sola, A.
name: Sharda, Kanudha
name: Paolucci, F.
name: Nair, J. R.
name: Gerbaldi, C.
name: Daghero, D.
name: Gonnelli, R. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The field-effect technique, popular thanks to its application in common field-effect transistors, is here applied to metallic thin films by using as a dielectric a novel polymer electrolyte solution. The maximum injected surface charge, determined by a suitable modification of a classic method of electrochemistry called double-step chronocoulometry, reached some units in 10^15 charges/cm^2. At room temperature, relative variations of resistance up to 8%, 1.9% and 1.6% were observed in the case of gold, silver and copper, respectively and, if the films are thick enough (> 25 nm), results can be nicely explained within a free-electron model with parallel resistive channels. The huge charge injections achieved make this particular field-effect technique very promising for a vast variety of materials such as unconventional superconductors, graphene and 2D-like materials.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures. Applied Surface Science, in press
Squared Eigenfunction Symmetries for the BTL and CTL Hierarchies
Creators: name: Cheng, Jipeng
name: He, Jingsong
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, the squared eigenfunction symmetries for the BTL and CTL hierarchies are explicitly constructed with the suitable modification of the ones for the TL hierarchy, by considering the BTL and CTL constraints. Also the connections with the corresponding additional symmetries are investigated: the squared eigenfunction symmetry generated by the wave function can be viewed as the generating function for the additional symmetries.
description: 11pages, no figures
The influence of adsorbate interactions on kinetics and equilibrium for CO on Ru(001). II. Desorption kinetics and equilibrium
Creators: name: Pfnür, Herbert
name: Feulner, P.
name: Menzel, D.
Publisher: name: College Park, MD : American Institute of Physics
Year: 1983
Subjects: subject: adsorption equilibirium
subject: CO2
subject: chemisorption
subject: desorption energy
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: A variety of methods [temperature programmed desorption via pressure rise and via work function changes (Δφ); isothermal desorption via Δφ: quasiequilibrium measurements via isobars monitored by Δφ, in combination with sticking coefficients] has been used to obtain detailed data on the coverage dependence of the adsorption equilibrium and desorption kinetics for CO on the basal Ru(001) face. While the deviation from reversibility varies strongly over these methods, no significant influence of the degree of irreversibility on the results has been found. Desorption energies and isosteric heats are constant at 160 kJ/mol for 0<Θ<0.2, then rise slowly up to 175 kJ/mol at Θ=0.33, where they fall abruptly to 120 kJ/mol and more gradually at higher coverage. The ‘‘first order’’ frequency factor (Arrhenius preexponential normalized by the coverage) is 1016 s−1 at Θ=0, rises precipitously, especially in the range 0.2<Θ<0.33, to 1019 s−1 at Θ≊0.33, where it drops abruptly to ≊1014 s−1. The main conclusions drawn are: (1) The dependence on coverage of the desorption energies and preexponentials can be understood in terms of the equilibrium statistical mechanics of the chemisorption layer, governed by lateral adsorbate–adsorbate interactions. In particular, the high preexponentials and their strong increase close to Θ=0.33 are due to strong localization in the adlayer. (2) No strong influence of precursor kinetics exists in desorption. (3) Possible dynamic effects have constant influence throughout the range of measurements and can be described by the behavior of the sticking coefficient. These conclusions are discussed in connection with other recent findings.
Superconductivity with extremely large upper critical fields in Nb2Pd0.81S5
Creators: name: Zhang, Q.
name: Li, G.
name: Rhodes, D.
name: Kiswandhi, A.
name: Besara, T.
name: Zeng, B.
name: Sun, J.
name: Siegrist, T.
name: Johannes, M. D.
name: Balicas, L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Here, we report the discovery of superconductivity in a new transition metal-chalcogenide compound, i.e. Nb2Pd0.81S5, with a transition temperature Tc > 6.6 K. Despite its relatively low Tc, it displays remarkably high and anisotropic superconducting upper critical fields, e.g. mu_0 H_{c2} (T approaching 0 K). 37 T for fields applied along the crystallographic b-axis. For a field applied perpendicularly to the b-axis, mu_0 H_{c2} shows a linear dependence in temperature which coupled to a temperature-dependent anisotropy of the upper critical fields, suggests that Nb2Pd0.81S5 is a multi-band superconductor. This is consistent with band structure calculations which reveal nearly cylindrical and quasi-one-dimensional Fermi surface sheets having hole and electron character, respectively. The static spin susceptibility as calculated through the random phase approximation, reveals strong peaks suggesting proximity to a magnetic state and therefore the possibility of unconventional superconductivity.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Looking Forward From Ten Years Back: A Decade of Carolina Planning
Creators: name: Grden-Ellson, Nancy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1984

description: It seems Impossible that ten years have passed since several second-year students in the Department of City and Regional Planning (DCRP) at the University of North Carolina first discussed the concept of a student planning publication. One year later, in May 1975, the first issue of Carolina planning was published. Because I was among those associated with that first issue, it is particularly gratifying to see that Carolina planning not only survived the decade, but flourished. The discussion below attempts to describe Carolina planning's evolution and its significance for Carolina planners.
The Community Land Trust as an Alternative Land Tenure System
Creators: name: Dyer, Donna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1979

description: Growing citizen concern over the conversion of farm land to more intensive uses, and about the disappearance of family farms, has captured the attention of numerous federal officials. Eleven federal agencies are currently pursuing a national agricultural lands study, constituting a review and synthesis of all existing studies of the changes in prime agricultural land in this country. Secretary of Agriculture Robert Bergland has called for a national dialogue on the structure of American agriculture. In ten public meetings, in 1979, he listened to testimony of citizens regarding land ownership, control, and tenancy; barriers to entering and leaving farming; size of farms; the role of technology ; returns to farmers; costs to consumers, and many other critical issues concerning the nature of rural life in the United States. A report and recommendations are forthcoming. These small steps reveal concern at a level that may slow the unchecked concentration of land ownership depicted below, or at least may support and encourage alternative tenure systems such as the community land trust.
Método de Aproximação para Cálculo de Raízes Quadradas com o Padrão Aritmético de Chalegre
Creators: name: André Igino Chalegre
name: André Igino Chalegre
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Este artigo apresenta um método de extração de raízes quadradas combinada com o Padrão Aritmético de Chalegre, uma abordagem prática e eficaz para calcular estimativas aproximadas de raízes quadradas de números na casa das centenas como cálculo de base que pode ser facilmente ampliado e convertido para qualquer outra classe decimal. O método envolve a análise dos dígitos iniciais e finais do radicando, juntamente com tabelas de correção. Demonstraremos o método através de breves exemplos de raízes exatas e inexatas, fornecendo um processo matemático transparente para cada cálculo.
Normalizers inside amalgamated free product von Neumann algebras
Creators: name: Vaes, Stefaan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Recently, Adrian Ioana proved that all crossed products by free ergodic probability measure preserving actions of a nontrivial free product group Γ_1 * Γ_2 have a unique Cartan subalgebra up to unitary conjugacy. Ioana deduced this result from a more general dichotomy theorem on the normalizer N_M(A)'' of an amenable subalgebra A of an amalgamated free product von Neumann algebra M = M_1 *_B M_2. We improve this dichotomy theorem by removing the spectral gap assumptions and obtain in particular a simpler proof for the uniqueness of the Cartan subalgebra in crossed products by Γ_1 * Γ_2.
Fluctuations in the electron system of a superconductor exposed to a photon flux
Creators: name: de Visser, P. J.
name: Baselmans, J. J. A.
name: Bueno, J.
name: Llombart, N.
name: Klapwijk, T. M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report on fluctuations in the electron system, Cooper pairs and quasiparticles, of a superconducting aluminium film. The superconductor is exposed to pair-breaking photons (1.54 THz), which are coupled through an antenna. The change in the complex conductivity of the superconductor upon a change in the quasiparticle number is read out by a microwave resonator. A large range in radiation power can be chosen by carefully filtering the radiation from a blackbody source. We identify two regimes. At high radiation power, fluctuations in the electron system caused by the random arrival rate of the photons are resolved, giving a straightforward measure of the optical efficiency (48%). At low radiation power fluctuations are dominated by excess quasiparticles, the number of which is measured through their recombination lifetime.
BETON QORISHMASINING REOLOGIK XOSSALARI
Creators: name: Ortikov, Shodiyor
name: Xolmurodov, Baxtiyor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024

description: O‘zbekistonda so‘nggi yillarda barcha sohalar kabi qurilish sohasini rivojlantirishga ham alohida e’tibor berilmoqda. Tizimni yanada takomillashtirishga qaratilgan hukumat va davlat rahbarining farmon hamda qarorlari, qabul qilingan davlat dasturlari, ular ijrosini ta’minlash, tarmoqda islohotlar samaradorligini oshirish bo‘yicha olib borilayotgan tadbirlar natijada bunyodkorlik ko‘lamlari tobora kengayib bormoqda.
Negative refraction and spatial echo in optical waveguide arrays
Creators: name: Khomeriki, Ramaz
name: Tkeshelashvili, Lasha
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The special symmetry properties of the discrete nonlinear Schrodinger equation allow a complete revival of the initial wavefunction. That is employed in the context of stationary propagation of light in a waveguide array. As an inverting system we propose a short array of almost isolated waveguides which cause a relative pi phase shift in the neighboring waveguides. By means of numerical simulations of the model equations we demonstrate a novel mechanism for the negative refraction of spatial solitons.
description: 3 pages, 2 figures
Effects of early nutritional interventions on the development of atopic disease in infants and children: The role of maternal dietary restriction, breastfeeding, timing of introduction of complementary foods, and hydrolyzed formulas
Creators: name: Burks, A. Wesley
name: Committee on Nutrition and Section on Allergy and Immunology
name: Greer, Frank R.
name: Sicherer, Scott H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: This clinical report reviews the nutritional options during pregnancy, lactation, and the first year of life that may affect the development of atopic disease (atopic dermatitis, asthma, food allergy) in early life. It replaces an earlier policy statement from the American Academy of Pediatrics that addressed the use of hypoallergenic infant formulas and included provisional recommendations for dietary management for the prevention of atopic disease. The documented benefits of nutritional intervention that may prevent or delay the onset of atopic disease are largely limited to infants at high risk of developing allergy (ie, infants with at least 1 first-degree relative [parent or sibling] with allergic disease). Current evidence does not support a major role for maternal dietary restrictions during pregnancy or lactation. There is evidence that breastfeeding for at least 4 months, compared with feeding formula made with intact cow milk protein, prevents or delays the occurrence of atopic dermatitis, cow milk allergy, and wheezing in early childhood. In studies of infants at high risk of atopy and who are not exclusively breastfed for 4 to 6 months, there is modest evidence that the onset of atopic disease may be delayed or prevented by the use of hydrolyzed formulas compared with formula made with intact cow milk protein, particularly for atopic dermatitis. Comparative studies of the various hydrolyzed formulas also indicate that not all formulas have the same protective benefit. There is also little evidence that delaying the timing of the introduction of complementary foods beyond 4 to 6 months of age prevents the occurrence of atopic disease. At present, there are insufficient data to document a protective effect of any dietary intervention beyond 4 to 6 months of age for the development of atopic disease.
Cytoplasmic flagellin activates caspase-1 and secretion of interleukin 1β via Ipaf
Creators: name: Dors, Monica
name: Miller, Samuel I.
name: Clark, April E.
name: Aderem, Alan
name: Miao, Edward A.
name: Alpuche-Aranda, Celia M.
name: Bader, Martin W.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Macrophages respond to Salmonella typhimurium infection via Ipaf, a NACHT–leucine-rich repeat family member that activates caspase-1 and secretion of interleukin 1β. However, the specific microbial salmonella-derived agonist responsible for activating Ipaf is unknown. We show here that cytosolic bacterial flagellin activated caspase-1 through Ipaf but was independent of Toll-like receptor 5, a known flagellin sensor. Stimulation of the Ipaf pathway in macrophages after infection required a functional salmonella pathogenicity island 1 type III secretion system but not the flagellar type III secretion system; furthermore, Ipaf activation could be recapitulated by the introduction of purified flagellin directly into the cytoplasm. These observations raise the possibility that the salmonella pathogenicity island 1 type III secretion system cannot completely exclude 'promiscuous' secretion of flagellin and that the host capitalizes on this 'error' by activating a potent host-defense pathway.
Tuning the onset voltage of resonant tunneling through InAs quantum dots by growth parameters
Creators: name: Hapke-Wurst, I.
name: Zeitler, U.
name: Keyser, U.F.
name: Haug, Rolf J.
name: Pierz, Klaus
name: Ma, Z.
Publisher: name: College Park, MD : American Institute of Physics
Year: 2003
Subjects: subject: Atomic force microscopy
subject: Current voltage characteristics
subject: Ground state
subject: Molecular beam epitaxy
subject: Photoluminescence
subject: Resonant tunneling
subject: Self assembly
subject: Semiconducting indium compounds
subject: Onset voltage
subject: Semiconductor quantum dots
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: A study was conducted on the onset voltage of resonant tunneling through indium arsenide (InAs) quantum dots by growth parameters. It was found that the onset voltage of the first step decreased from 200 mV to 0 with increasing InAs coverage. The results were confirmed by atomic force micrographs and photoluminescence experiments on reference samples.
Saxifraga tridactylites L.
Creators: name: Becherer
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 1956
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy

description: S. tridactylites L. Cat. 158. Var. exilis (Pollini) Gaudin (var. minutissima Schur) - Nichtselten,z.B.: Branson (P.);LeGuercet-Charrat (Closuit); Stalden (Vispertal) (Hirschmann).
description: Published as part of Becherer, 1956, Florae Vallesiacae Supplementum, pp. 1-556 in Denkschriften der Schweizerischen Naturforschenden Gesellschaft 71 on pages 1-556
Introduction to Case Studies
Creators: name: Cragnolin, Karen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: For a moment, imagine that North Carolina’s total water supply is stored in one immense bowl and that every resident, new and old, is given a straw to siphon water for their daily gardening, industrial, recreational, and personal needs. This consumption would be enormous, since every American uses about 100 gallons of water each day – compared with residents throughout the rest of the world, especially in poorer countries, who may have access to fewer than five gallons per day (National Geographic, 2010).
Constraining the initial conditions of globular clusters using their radius distribution
Creators: name: Alexander, Poul E. R.
name: Gieles, Mark
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Studies of extra-galactic globular clusters have shown that the peak size of the globular cluster (GC) radius distribution (RD) depends only weakly on galactic environment, and can be used as a standard ruler. We model RDs of GC populations using a simple prescription for a Hubble time of relaxation driven evolution of cluster mass and radius, and explore the conditions under which the RD can be used as a standard ruler. We consider a power-law cluster initial mass function (CIMF) with and without an exponential truncation, and focus in particular on a flat and a steep CIMF (power-law indices of 0 and -2, respectively). For the initial half-mass radii at birth we adopt either Roche-lobe filling conditions ('filling',meaning that the ratio of half-mass to Jacobi radius is approximately rh/rJ ~ 0.15) or strongly Roche-lobe under-filling conditions ('under-filling', implying that initially rh/rJ << 0.15). Assuming a constant orbital velocity about the galaxy centre we find for a steep CIMF that the typical half-light radius scales with galactocentric radius RG as RG^1/3. This weak scaling is consistent with observations, but this scenario has the (well known) problem that too many low-mass clusters survive. A flat CIMF with 'filling' initial conditions results in the correct mass function at old ages, but with too many large (massive) clusters at large RG. An 'underfilling' GC population with a flat CIMF also results in the correct mass function, and can also successfully reproduce the shape of the RD, with a peak size that is (almost) independent of RG. In this case, the peak size depends (almost) only on the peak mass of the GC mass function. The (near) universality of the GC RD is therefore because of the (near) universality of the CIMF. There are some extended GCs in the outer halo of the Milky Way that cannot be explained by this model.
description: 6 pages, 3 figures, accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters
Upper limits on a stochastic gravitational-wave background using LIGO and Virgo interferometers at 600-1000 Hz
Creators: name: Abadie, J.
name: Affeldt, Christoph
name: Allen, Bruce
name: Aufmuth, Peter
name: Aulbert, C.
name: Ballardin, G.
name: Bauchrowitz, J.
name: Bertolini, A.
name: Bock, O.
name: Bogan, C.
name: Born, Michael
name: Breyer, J.
name: Brinkmann, M.
name: Britzger, M.
name: Dahl, K.
name: Danzmann, Karsten
name: Di Palma, Irene
name: Eberle, Tobias
name: Fehrmann, H.
name: Frede, M.
name: Friedrich, Daniel
name: Goetz, E.
name: Goßler, S.
name: Graef, C.
name: Grote, Hartmut
name: Hewitson, M.
name: Kaufer, Henning
name: Kawazoe, F.
name: Khalaidovski, Alexander
name: Kim, H.
name: Kranz, O.
name: Kringel, V.
name: Kühn, G.
name: Kwee, P.
name: Lastzka, N.
name: Leong, J.R.
name: Lück, Harald
name: Machenschalk, Bernd
name: Mazzolo, G.
name: Mehmet, Moritz
name: Meier, Tobias
name: Mossavi, K.
name: Müller-Ebhard, H.
name: Pickenpack, M.
name: Pletsch, H.J.
name: Pöld, J.
name: Prijatelj, M.
name: Prix, R
name: Puncken, O.
name: Röver, C.
name: Rüdiger, A.
name: Salemi, F.
name: Schilling, R.
name: Schnabel, Roman
name: Schreiber, E.
name: Schulz, B.
name: Shaltev, M.
name: Steinlechner, J.
name: Steinlechner, S.
name: Tarabrin, S.P.
name: Taylor, J.R.
name: Thüring, A.
name: Vahlbruch, H.
name: Veltkamp, C.
name: Wanner, A.
name: Weinert, M.
name: Wessels, P.
name: Westphal, Tobias
name: Wette, K.
name: Willke, Benno
name: Winkelmann, L.
name: Winkler, W.
name: Wittel, H.
name: Yamamoto, K.
name: Et Al.
name: LIGO Scientific Collaboration
name: Collaboration, Virgo
Publisher: name: College Park, MD : American Physical Society
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Gravitational waves
subject: Gravitationswelle
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::530 | Physik

description: A stochastic background of gravitational waves is expected to arise from a superposition of many incoherent sources of gravitational waves, of either cosmological or astrophysical origin. This background is a target for the current generation of ground-based detectors. In this article we present the first joint search for a stochastic background using data from the LIGO and Virgo interferometers. In a frequency band of 600–1000 Hz, we obtained a 95% upper limit on the amplitude of ΩGW(f)=Ω3(f/900 Hz)3, of Ω3<0.32, assuming a value of the Hubble parameter of h100=0.71. These new limits are a factor of seven better than the previous best in this frequency band. © 2012 The American Physical Society
Biologic TNF inhibiting agents for treatment of inflammatory rheumatic diseases: Dosing patterns and related costs in Switzerland from a payers perspective
Creators: name: Zeidler, Jan
name: Mittendorf, Thomas
name: Müller, Rüdiger
name: Kempis, Johannes Von
Publisher: name: Heidelberg : Springer Verlag
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: Claims data
subject: Cost analysis
subject: Dosing patterns
subject: Inflammatory rheumatic diseases
subject: Switzerland
subject: Tumornecrosis factor inhibitor I
subject: adalimumab
subject: etanercept
subject: infliximab
subject: adult
subject: ankylosing spondylitis
subject: article
subject: billing and claims
subject: controlled study
subject: drug cost
subject: drug dose comparison
subject: drug dose increase
subject: drug dose regimen
subject: drug utilization
subject: drug withdrawal
subject: female
subject: human
subject: major clinical study
subject: male
subject: priority journal
subject: psoriatic arthritis
subject: rheumatoid arthritis
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::330 | Wirtschaft
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::600 | Technik::610 | Medizin, Gesundheit

description: Background: To obtain detailed real-life data on costs and dosing patterns in the utilisation of the TNF inhibitors adalimumab, etanercept, and infliximab in patients treated in Switzerland. Methods: Administrative claims processed by a major Swiss health insurer between 2005 and 2008 were analysed. Patients with inflammatory rheumatic diseases (IRDs) with at least one prescription for adalimumab, etanercept, or infliximab were identified. All-cause and disease-specific costs, as well as daily costs of treatment, were calculated. Dosing patterns and discontinuation rates were analysed. Results: A total of 555 IRD patients were identified. All-cause costs during the 12 months after the index event were 20,555CHF in the etanercept group, 24,152CHF in the adalimumab group, and 27,614CHF in the infliximab group. The most important cost driver was mean TNF inhibitor drug cost, which was 15,613CHF in the etanercept group, 19,166CHF in the adalimumab group, and 21,313CHF in the infliximab group. Discontinuation rates during the first year after the index event were 46.8% in etanercept, 41.3% in adalimumab, and 51.2% in the infliximab group. Rates of dosage increase were 13.3% in the etanercept group, 13.0% in the adalimumab group, and 14.1% in the infliximab group. When time on treatment was considered, daily costs of treatment were similar for etanercept and adalimumab, but were higher for infliximab. Conclusions: Marked differences in costs between subcutaneous and intravenous therapies were observed. Among the three groups of patients defined by TNF inhibitor treatment, costs for the infliximab group were highest during the year after the index event.
LabelRank: A Stabilized Label Propagation Algorithm for Community Detection in Networks
Creators: name: Xie, Jierui
name: Szymanski, Boleslaw K.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Social and Information Networks (cs.SI)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An important challenge in big data analysis nowadays is detection of cohesive groups in large-scale networks, including social networks, genetic networks, communication networks and so. In this paper, we propose LabelRank, an efficient algorithm detecting communities through label propagation. A set of operators is introduced to control and stabilize the propagation dynamics. These operations resolve the randomness issue in traditional label propagation algorithms (LPA), stabilizing the discovered communities in all runs of the same network. Tests on real-world networks demonstrate that LabelRank significantly improves the quality of detected communities compared to LPA, as well as other popular algorithms.
description: Proc. IEEE Network Science Workshop, 2013
Rural Land Use Mapping by Satellite: A Case Study of Region D COG, North Carolina
Creators: name: Reiman, Richard J.
name: Orsbon, Benjamin T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1978

description: One of the most important pieces of data necessary to develop an adequate analytical base for most land use and other natural resource planning is an existing land use map. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), through its "701" comprehensive planning regulations, mandated that all applicants for HUD "701" funds have a substantially completed land use element prior to August 22, 1977. HUD "701" was one of the major sources of planning funds for the Region D Council of Governments. To comply with these regulations and continue to receive funds. Region D developed a regional land use plan for the 1,615,000 acres in its seven-county area in northwestern North Carolina. Because planning is a relatively new concept in western North Carolina, staff personnel were preoccupied with grantsmanship for local governments and land use and natural resource education programs. It was not feasible to employ additional staff on a short term basis because Region D received only $31,000 of HUD "701" funds. Yet, to comply with the federal regulations, an accurate existing land use map had to be acquired within the budgetary and time constraints.
Sparsity-Aware STAP Algorithms Using $L_1$-norm Regularization For Radar Systems
Creators: name: Yang, Z.
name: de Lamare, R. C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This article proposes novel sparsity-aware space-time adaptive processing (SA-STAP) algorithms with $l_1$-norm regularization for airborne phased-array radar applications. The proposed SA-STAP algorithms suppose that a number of samples of the full-rank STAP data cube are not meaningful for processing and the optimal full-rank STAP filter weight vector is sparse, or nearly sparse. The core idea of the proposed method is imposing a sparse regularization ($l_1$-norm type) to the minimum variance (MV) STAP cost function. Under some reasonable assumptions, we firstly propose a $l_1$-based sample matrix inversion (SMI) to compute the optimal filter weight vector. However, it is impractical due to its matrix inversion, which requires a high computational cost when in a large phased-array antenna. Then, we devise lower complexity algorithms based on conjugate gradient (CG) techniques. A computational complexity comparison with the existing algorithms and an analysis of the proposed algorithms are conducted. Simulation results with both simulated and the Mountain Top data demonstrate that fast signal-to-interference-plus-noise-ratio (SINR) convergence and good performance of the proposed algorithms are achieved.
description: 6 figures
title: A Late Celtic-Early Roman miniature shield from the Martberg on the Moselle (Lkr. Cochem-Zell)
Creators: name: Nickel, Claudia
Publisher: name: University Library Heidelberg
Year: 2016

description: Ein Anhänger aus Bronzeblech in Form eines Miniaturschilds, der in einer Siedlungsgrube außerhalb des Heiligtums auf dem Martberg an der Mosel gefunden wurde, lässt Hinweise auf »kultische« Aktivitäten auch außerhalb der Tempel zu. Innerhalb des umfangreichen Fundmaterials vom Martberg – aus Heiligtum und Siedlung – ist das Objekt singulär. Die wenigen bekannten Parallelen stammen überwiegend aus dem Treverergebiet, allerdings auch aus der weiteren Umgebung. Die genaue Funktion und Datierung ist aufgrund der sekundären Lage in einer Siedlungsgrube nicht zu klären. Allerdings finden sich auch in der Siedlung immer wieder Belege ritueller Handlungen, wie die Ausgrabungen der letzten Jahre zeigen.
description: A bronze sheet pendant in the shape of a miniature shield found in the pit of a settlement outside the sanctuary on the Martberg on the Moselle indicates additional ritual activities outside the temples. The object is unique among the vast archaeological material from both sanctuary and settlement on the Martberg. Few parallels are predominantly known from the area of the Treveri as well as from further surroundings. As the object was discovered in the pit of a settlement its exact function and date cannot be determined. However, excavations of recent years repeatedly brought to light indications for ritual activities within the settlement.
Instrumentelle Leistungssteigerungen der ICP-MS Ultraspurenanalytik durch neue Zerstäuber oder Kaltplasma und Einsatz der Isotopenverdünnung
Creators: name: Wollenweber, Dirk
Publisher: name: Hannover : Universität Hannover
Year: 2000
Subjects: subject: ICP-MS
subject: isotope dilution
subject: cold plasma
subject: ICP-Massenspektrometrie
subject: Isotopenverdünnungsanalyse
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::500 | Naturwissenschaften::540 | Chemie

description: [no abstract]
title: Les représentations de cervidés dans l’art mobilier du Paléolithique Supérieur européen
Creators: name: Chirica, Valentin-Codrin
Publisher: name: University Library Heidelberg
Year: 2016

description: The Representations of Cervidae in the Portable Art of European Upper Palaeolithic

Our contribution focuses on cervidae in the narrow sense of the term (deer – doe), although we also analyze the representations of reindeer and the elk when we discuss the cervidae in general. Although less represented than horses or bison, the deer dominates the portable art of the Upper Magdalenian Cantabrian area, from Pyrenees to Asturias, the Basque Country and the Levant. There are all the stylistic trends and modes of representation. The deer carries a Uranian symbolism, associated with fertility, virility and the cycle of life.

 Keywords: deer, doe, portable art, Upper Palaeolithic, Europe.
Mapping the Research Landscape of Strategic Human Resource Management in Nonprofit Organizations : A Systematic Review and Avenues for Future Research
Creators: name: Baluch, Alina M.
name: Ridder, Hans-Gerd
Publisher: name: London : SAGE Publications Ltd.
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: HR architectures
subject: HR practices
subject: nonprofit organizations
subject: strategic human resource management
subject: systematic review
subject: Dewey Decimal Classification::300 | Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie::320 | Politik

description: A decade after key theoretical developments in strategic human resource management (SHRM) in nonprofit organizations (NPOs), we still lack a comprehensive understanding of the disparate strands of empirical evidence. Furthermore, this growing field requires integration and synthesis of new themes and conceptual developments. Therefore, we conducted a systematic review of SHRM studies in NPOs published between 2008 and 2017. Our review of 74 articles synthesizes a fragmented body of research and maps out the relationships into a more integrated whole. By mapping the research landscape, we provide insights into the tensions NPOs face between external pressures and values, highlighting the underexplored role of managerial discretion in shaping NPOs’ differing responses. Our review expands the resource orientation to include a social capital dimension and identifies new empirical manifestations of human resource management (HRM) types. We offer avenues for research on content, process, outcomes of SHRM, and discuss how the interplay across key themes can inform the development of the field. © The Author(s) 2020.