cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
How to Plan Like an Ally: An Analysis of LGBTQ+ Planning in Carrboro, NC
Creators: name: Thompson, John
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: This Master’s Project first identifies and summarizes recent LGBTQ+ planning practices and policies across the United States. From there, the project looks at smaller-scale LGBTQ+ planning initiatives in Provincetown, Massachusetts; Palm Springs, California; and Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. From this research, a series of questions were generated to better understand how similar initiatives could be adopted for Carrboro and the Town's role in planning for them. To answer these questions, information was gathered from Carrboro staff members in various departments, including planning, economic development, housing and community services, recreation, parks, and cultural resources. Planning recommendations were then constructed for the Town of Carrboro that can help to expand opportunities for LGBTQ+ individuals and build a more inclusive community. These recommendations aim to ensure the Town's continued support of the LGBTQ+ community and serve as examples for other small southern municipalities to further their commitment to the LGBTQ+ population.
title: Diabetes und Schulung. Schulung bei Typ-2-Diabetes.
Creators: name: Ärztliches Zentrum Für Qualität In Der Medizin (ÄZQ)
Publisher: name: Bundesärztekammer (BÄK); Kassenärztliche Bundesvereinigung (KBV); Ärztliches Zentrum für Qualität in der Medizin (ÄZQ)
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: 610 Medical sciences; Medicine

description: Kurzinformation für Patienten
Joint Optimization of Radio and Computational Resources for Multicell Mobile-Edge Computing
Creators: name: Sardellitti, Stefania
name: Scutari, Gesualdo
name: Barbarossa, Sergio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Migrating computational intensive tasks from mobile devices to more resourceful cloud servers is a promising technique to increase the computational capacity of mobile devices while saving their battery energy. In this paper, we consider a MIMO multicell system where multiple mobile users (MUs) ask for computation offloading to a common cloud server. We formulate the offloading problem as the joint optimization of the radio resources-the transmit precoding matrices of the MUs-and the computational resources-the CPU cycles/second assigned by the cloud to each MU-in order to minimize the overall users' energy consumption, while meeting latency constraints. The resulting optimization problem is nonconvex (in the objective function and constraints). Nevertheless, in the single-user case, we are able to express the global optimal solution in closed form. In the more challenging multiuser scenario, we propose an iterative algorithm, based on a novel successive convex approximation technique, converging to a local optimal solution of the original nonconvex problem. Then, we reformulate the algorithm in a distributed and parallel implementation across the radio access points, requiring only a limited coordination/signaling with the cloud. Numerical results show that the proposed schemes outperform disjoint optimization algorithms.
description: Paper submitted to IEEE Trans. on Signal and Information Processing over Networks
Letter from George Orwell to Herbert Read, February 26, 1949
Creators: name: Orwell, George, 1903-1950
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Anarchists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/808401
subject: Orwell, George, 1903-1950
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/36162
subject: Art historians
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/815554
subject: Philosophers, Modern
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1060765
subject: Novelists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1039684
subject: Novelists, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1039718
subject: Journalists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/984188
subject: Critics
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/883769
subject: Philosophers
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1060746

description: A letter from novelist, critic, and essayist George Orwell, one of the most famous English writers of the twentieth century. In this letter, Orwell discusses the Freedom Defence Committee and his recent illness.
Electric Vehicle Charging Station Analysis: Recommendations for Greensboro
Creators: name: Anderson, William
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: The following study utilizes a multi-methods approach to determine how Greensboro can improve its public-access electric vehicle charging station network. Case studies on EV charging programs from Sacramento, California, Columbus, Ohio, and Memphis, Tennessee are analyzed to determine how Greensboro can create a successful EV charging program. To build off the findings from the case studies, this report constructs a suitability assessment to locate publicly owned parcels that are optimal for public-access EV charging stations.
Associations between Family Maltreatment Perpetration and Latent Profiles of Personal and Family Strengths among Active-Duty Air Force Members
Creators: name: Jensen, T.M.
name: Bowen, G.L.
name: King, E.L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Although individual and family strengths have been found to impact family maltreatment risk, optimal approaches to their assessment are lacking. To substantiate the utility of holistically assessing multiple strengths among active-duty Air Force members (i.e., Airmen) who might be at risk of perpetrating family maltreatment, the current study aimed to identify latent patterns of personal and family strengths among Airmen and assess associations with family maltreatment perpetration. A representative a sample of 30,187 Airmen from the 2011 Air Force Community Assessment Survey was used to identify patterns across latent-factor scores representing unit leader support, informal support, family functioning, individual fitness, and personal resilience. Latent profile analysis was conducted to extract an optimal number of response patterns and estimate associations with family maltreatment perpetration. A five-profile solution was optimal, representing patterns marked by low (10%), below average (26%), mixed (16%), above average (36%), and high (12%) levels of personal and family strengths. Predicted probabilities of family maltreatment among families not identifying as stepfamilies were 39%, 21%, 14%, 10%, and 8% across low, below average, mixed, above average, and high patterns, respectively. Among stepfamilies (20% of sample), predicted probabilities were 49%, 29%, 21%, 15%, and 12%, respectively. Findings encourage a holistic assessment of personal and family strengths among Airmen. The Personal and Family Strengths Inventory, which was developed to gauge these strengths, can position practitioners well to engage Airmen in conversations around strengths and growth opportunities for the purposes of service planning aimed at preventing family maltreatment.
Riemann Extension of the Anti-Mach Space time
Creators: name: Abdel-Megied, M.
name: Abdel-All, Nassar H.
name: Hegazy, E. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Riemann extension for the anti Mach metric is derived, the solution of geodesic equations for the extended space are given, some properties for the extended space was studied and compared with the basic space and the constructions of a translation surface for the anti Mach metric in four dimension is established.
description: 12 pages
Analysis of Leadership Styles Within Social Welfare Agency in Latvia: Literature Review
Creators: name: Jegede, Oluwaseun Ayotunde
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 130304 Educational Administration, Management and Leadership
subject: FOS: Educational sciences
subject: 170113 Social and Community Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 140219 Welfare Economics
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This article aims to analyze leadership styles in a selected social agency. The study identifies leadership styles in welfare and social enterprise organizations in Latvia; it examines leadership problems and their effect on the welfare situation and development of the people as revealed by OECD reports, national reports and scholarly studies. The study shows that the authoritarian leadership style is commonly used in Latvia institutions, and the democratic leadership style can be said to be often used as autocratic. Though the people would like their leaders to be democratic in their approach, autocratic seems to be often used and the situational or mixed leadership style. The findings of the studies also revealed that the general population has a positive attitude toward democratic methods of governance and acknowledges their significance. However, it seems that current leaders are still inspired by the leadership styles of their predecessors, particularly the regimes of Russia and the Soviet Union. The present research recommends that leaders practice self-awareness and use both bottom-up and top-down approaches to leadership. Doing so will assist the leader in becoming more democratic.
A systematic review of approaches for continuous quality improvement capacity-building
Creators: name: Morgan, J.D.
name: Farley, A.B.
name: Metz, A.J.
name: Jensen, T.M.
name: Loper, A.C.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Context: Continuous quality improvement (CQI) has become prominent in public health settings; yet, little consolidated guidance exists for building CQI capacity of community-based organizations. Objective: To synthesize relevant literature to identify guiding principles and core components critical to building the capacity of organizations to adopt and use CQI. Design: We employed a systematic review approach to assess guiding principles and core components for CQI capacity-building as outlined in the literature. Eligibility Criteria: Studies meeting the following criteria were eligible for review: (1) empirical, peer-reviewed journal article, evaluation study, review, or systematic review; (2) published in 2010 or later; and (3) capacity-building activities were described in enough detail to be replicable. Studies not including human subjects, published in a language other than English, or for which full text was not available were excluded. Study Selection: The initial return of records included 6557 articles, of which 1455 were duplicates. The research team single-screened titles and abstracts of 5102 studies, resulting in the exclusion of 4842 studies. Two hundred sixty-two studies were double-screened during full-text review, yielding a final sample of 61 studies from which data were extracted. Main Outcome Measures: Outcome measures of interest were operationalized descriptions of guiding principles and core components of the CQI capacity-building approach. Results: Results yielded articles from medical education, health care, and public health settings. Findings included guiding principles and core components of CQI capacity-building identified in current practice, as well as infrastructural and contextual elements needed to build CQI capacity. Conclusions: This consolidation of guiding principles and core components for CQI capacity-building is valuable for public health and related workforces. Despite the uneven distribution of articles from health care, medical education, and public health settings, our findings can be used to guide public health organizations in building CQI capacity in a well-informed, systematic manner.
title: The Political Economy of Pragmatic Paranoia: The Strange Case of Pakistan
Creators: name: Razmi, Arslan
Publisher: name: University of Massachusetts Amherst
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/0072zz521
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024

description: Pakistan's political economy has been characterized by some interesting and arguably unique features in recent decades. The combination of two stands out, in particular: (1) lifetime uncertainty for elected governments, and (2) a high degree of certainty that, due to reasons that are largely extraneous to popularity and policy performance, the incumbent party will not form the government in the next term. This paper argues, employing modified formal frameworks developed for other con- texts, that these features go a significant way in explaining why the economy has experienced dramatic cyclical fluctuations in internal and external macroeconomic indicators, especially official foreign exchange reserve stocks. In addition, the analysis helps explain the consistent underinvestment in tax revenue-generation capacity. The existing "partisan" and "opportunistic" varieties of political business cycle models do not satisfactorily capture these features. The analysis, thus, extends this literature in new directions.
Quality versus quantity in scientific impact
Creators: name: Kaur, Jasleen
name: Ferrara, Emilio
name: Menczer, Filippo
name: Flammini, Alessandro
name: Radicchi, Filippo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Digital Libraries (cs.DL)
subject: Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Citation metrics are becoming pervasive in the quantitative evaluation of scholars, journals and institutions. More then ever before, hiring, promotion, and funding decisions rely on a variety of impact metrics that cannot disentangle quality from quantity of scientific output, and are biased by factors such as discipline and academic age. Biases affecting the evaluation of single papers are compounded when one aggregates citation-based metrics across an entire publication record. It is not trivial to compare the quality of two scholars that during their careers have published at different rates in different disciplines in different periods of time. We propose a novel solution based on the generation of a statistical baseline specifically tailored on the academic profile of each researcher. Our method can decouple the roles of quantity and quality of publications to explain how a certain level of impact is achieved. The method is flexible enough to allow for the evaluation of, and fair comparison among, arbitrary collections of papers --- scholar publication records, journals, and entire institutions; and can be extended to simultaneously suppresses any source of bias. We show that our method can capture the quality of the work of Nobel laureates irrespective of number of publications, academic age, and discipline, even when traditional metrics indicate low impact in absolute terms. We further apply our methodology to almost a million scholars and over six thousand journals to measure the impact that cannot be explained by the volume of publications alone.
description: 20 pages, 7 figures, and 1 table
Characterising A/E pathogens’ Type III secretion system effector proteins
Creators: name: Slater, Sabrina Loretta
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: The human diarrhoeal pathogens enteropathogenic Escherichia coli, enterohaemorrhagic E. coli and their murine analogue Citrobacter rodentium are a family of enteric bacteria that cause characteristic attaching and effacing lesions at the site of intestinal colonisation. Lesion formation and successful infection depends on a Type III Secretion System and its cognate effector proteins. Once translocated into the host cytosol, effectors subvert several mammalian cell processes to create and maintain an infectious niche. With the advent of high-throughput screening techniques, the rate of effector discovery has surpassed their biochemical investigation. This work therefore explores the function of seven effectors, three uncharacterised and four previously described. Through machine learning algorithms, two completely novel C. rodentium effectors were identified and designated NleN and NleO. While nleN encodes a truncation of a conserved effector, NleO disrupts the host cytoskeleton by binding and cleaving the Rho GTPase Rac1 at a unique scission site. A third C. rodentium effector, EspS, which has previously demonstrated to modulate intestinal pathology, binds the host mitochondrial protein TRIAP1 and contributes to the remodelling of host lipids during infection of C57Bl/6 mice. Finally, the contribution of EspZ, TccP, EspT and NleG to the recently described pyroptotic cell death pathway in human macrophages is explored. The findings presented herein contribute to the ever-growing repertoire of effector protein knowledge and underscore the importance of studying effector synergy during infection.
The Seven Sisters DANCe. I. Empirical isochrones, Luminosity and Mass Functions of the Pleiades cluster
Creators: name: Bouy, H.
name: Bertin, E.
name: Sarro, L. M.
name: Barrado, D.
name: Moraux, E.
name: Bouvier, J.
name: Cuillandre, J. -C.
name: Berihuete, A.
name: Olivares, J.
name: Beletsky, Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The DANCe survey provides photometric and astrometric (position and proper motion) measurements for approximately 2 millions unique sources in a region encompassing $\approx$80deg$^{2}$ centered around the Pleiades cluster. We aim at deriving a complete census of the Pleiades, and measure the mass and luminosity function of the cluster. Using the probabilistic selection method described in Sarro+2014, we identify high probability members in the DANCe ($i\ge$14mag) and Tycho-2 ($V\lesssim$12mag) catalogues, and study the properties of the cluster over the corresponding luminosity range. We find a total of 2109 high probability members, of which 812 are new, making it the most extensive and complete census of the cluster to date. The luminosity and mass functions of the cluster are computed from the most massive members down to $\approx$0.025M$_{\odot}$. The size, sensitivity and quality of the sample result in the most precise luminosity and mass functions observed to date for a cluster. Our census supersedes previous studies of the Pleiades cluster populations, both in terms of sensitivity and accuracy.
description: Language Edition Done. Final version to be published in A&A. Tables will be published at CDS. Meanwhile, they can be requested to H. Bouy (hbouy -at- cab . inta - csic . es)
To understand the rare decay $B_s\toπ^+π^-\ell^+\ell^-$
Creators: name: Wang, Wei
name: Zhu, Rui-Lin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by the LHCb measurement, we analyze the $B_s\to π^+π^-\ell^+\ell^-$ decay in the kinematics region where the pion pairs have invariant mass in the range $0.5$-$1.3$ GeV and muon pairs do not originate from a resonance. The scalar $π^+π^-$ form factor induced by the strange $\bar ss$ current is predicted by the unitarized approach rooted in the chiral perturbation theory. Using the two-hadron light-cone distribution amplitude, we then can derive the $B_s\to π^+π^-$ transition form factor in the light-cone sum rules approach. Merging these quantities, we present our results for differential decay width which can generally agree with the experimental data. More accurate measurements at the LHC and KEKB in future are helpful to validate our formalism and determine the inputs in this approach.
description: 8 pages, 4 figures; v2: references added, match the published version
Vulcan Planets: Inside-Out Formation of the Innermost Super-Earths
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Sourav
name: Tan, Jonathan C.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The compact multi-transiting systems discovered by Kepler challenge traditional planet formation theories. These fall into two broad classes: (1) formation further out followed by migration; (2) formation in situ from a disk of gas and planetesimals. In the former, an abundance of resonant chains is expected, which the Kepler data do not support. In the latter, required disk mass surface densities may be too high. A recently proposed mechanism hypothesizes that planets form in situ at the pressure trap associated with the dead-zone inner boundary (DZIB) where radially drifting "pebbles" accumulate. This scenario predicts planet masses ($M_p$) are set by the gap-opening process that then leads to DZIB retreat, followed by sequential, inside-out planet formation (IOPF). For typical disk accretion rates, IOPF predictions for $M_p$, $M_p$ versus orbital radius $r$, and planet-planet separations are consistent with observed systems. Here we investigate the IOPF prediction for how the masses, $M_{p,1}$, of the innermost ("Vulcan") planets vary with $r$. We show that for fiducial parameters, $M_{p,1}\simeq5.0(r/{\rm{0.1\:AU}})\:M_\oplus$, independent of the disk's accretion rate at time of planet formation. Then, using Monte Carlo sampling of a population of these innermost planets, we test this predicted scaling against observed planet properties, allowing for intrinsic dispersions in planetary densities and Kepler's observational biases. These effects lead to a slightly shallower relation $M_{p,1}\propto{r}^{0.9\pm0.2}$, which is consistent with $M_{p,1}\propto{r}^{0.7\pm0.2}$ of the observed Vulcans. The normalization of the relation constrains the gap-opening process, favoring relatively low viscosities in the inner dead zone.
description: 8 pages, 5 figures, accepted to ApJL
Cooperation with the Chinese cultural sector in times of growing uncertainties
Creators: name: Jacoby, Marcin
name: Gryszkiewicz, Anna
name: Reismuller, Frantisek
name: Ilczuk, Dorota
name: Machajek, Piotr
name: Kaminska, Tamara
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Policy Brief on the Chinese cultural sector - part of deliverable for Year 1 of WP2 "Society and Culture" of the research project China Horizons - Dealing with a Resurgent China (DWARC), Horizon Europe research grant number 101061700.
Stepparent–Child Relationships and Child Outcomes: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Creators: name: Jensen, T.M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: An inclusive conceptualization of “family” can enable family-serving systems and professionals to leverage high-quality family relationships, wherever they are found, to support the health and well-being of individuals. Stepfamilies are an especially common family form with distinct needs and experiences, and stepparent–child relationships can take on a variety of functions with implications for family stability and individual well-being. The purpose of this systematic review and meta-analysis was to synthesize empirical associations between stepparent–child relationships and child outcomes. General findings from 56 studies highlighted significant associations between several dimensions of stepparent–child relationships and children’s psychological, behavioral, social, academic, and physical well-being. Meta-analytic findings from 68 effect-size estimates further substantiated significant and positive associations between stepparent–child relationship quality and child psychological well-being (mean r =.25) and academic well-being (mean r =.23), as well as significant and negative associations between stepparent–child relationship quality and child psychological problems (mean r = −.23) and behavioral problems (mean r = −.19).
Correlates of Help-Seeking Intentions among Airmen in the Context of Family Maltreatment Perpetration: Practical Barriers as a Moderating Influence
Creators: name: Jensen, T.M.
name: Bowen, G.L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022

description: Efforts are warranted to understand correlates of formal help-seeking among active-duty military members self-reporting family maltreatment perpetration. Drawing from the Integrated Model of Determinants of Behavioral Intentions, we evaluate a hypothesized model in which the intention to seek formal services is associated with a set of plausible social-psychological variables. Practical barriers to help-seeking is assessed as a moderating influence. A representative sample of 5326 Airmen (88% male) from the 2011 Air Force Community Assessment Survey who self-reported recent family maltreatment perpetration is used for structural equation modeling to estimate direct associations between social support and intention to seek services, and indirect associations via career stigma, unit-based stigma, and sense of community. Social support is negatively associated with career stigma and unit-based stigma, and positively associated with sense of community. Career stigma and sense of community are negatively associated with intention to seek services. Significant indirect effects include a positive effect between social support and intention to seek services via a reduction in career stigma, and a negative effect via increases in sense of community. Higher levels of practical barriers magnify most associations. Especially when facing practical barriers, social support can both increase help-seeking intentions by reducing career stigma, and reduce intentions, either directly or indirectly by strengthening a sense of community. Military leaders should address career stigma perceptually and systematically, and engage in public awareness efforts and trainings to position members of informal networks to guide individuals with problematic behavior toward relevant formal services.
Dual spatially resolved transcriptomics for human host-pathogen colocalization studies in FFPE tissue sections
Creators: name: Sounart, Hailey
name: Enikő Lázár
name: Yuvarani Masarapu
name: Wu, Jian
name: Várkonyi, Tibor
name: Glasz, Tibor
name: Kiss, András
name: Borgström, Erik
name: Hill, Andrew
name: Sefanit Rezene
name: Soham Gupta
name: Jurek, Aleksandra
name: Anezka Niesnerová
name: Druid, Henrik
name: Bergmann, Olaf
name: Giacomello, Stefania
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Code for reproducing the analysis done in the study Dual spatially resolved transcriptomics for human host-pathogen colocalization studies in FFPE tissue sections. More details of the same in the 'Availability of data and materials' section.
On objective and strong objective consistent estimates of unknown parameters for statistical structures in a Polish group admitting an invariant metric
Creators: name: Kintsurashvili, Murman
name: Kiria, Tengiz
name: Pantsulaia, Gogi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: G.3
subject: 62-02, 62D05

description: By using the notion of a Haar ambivalent set introduced by Balka, Buczolich and Elekes (2012), essentially new classes of statistical structures having objective and strong objective estimates of unknown parameters are introduced in a Polish non-locally-compact group admitting an invariant metric and relations between them are studied in this paper. An example of such a weakly separated statistical structure is constructed for which a question asking "{\it whether there exists a consistent estimate of an unknown parameter}" is not solvable within the theory $(ZF)~\&~(DC)$. A question asking "{\it whether there exists an objective consistent estimate of an unknown parameter for any statistical structure in a non-locally compact Polish group with an invariant metric when subjective one exists}" is answered positively when there exists at least one such a parameter the pre-image of which under this subjective estimate is a prevalent. These results extend recent results of authors. Some examples of objective and strong objective consistent estimates in a compact Polish group $\{0; 1\}^N$ are considered in this paper.
description: 40 pages, 3 figures. In Table 1 (p.4) last column is deleted; In Page 28, indications of Statistics $T_n^{(1)}$(and $T_n^{(3)}$ are corrected ((5.14) is replaced with (5.13); (5.30) is replaced with (5.19); P. 29, line 5,1 from above $T^{(1)}_ n$ is replaced with $T^{(2)}_ n$; The corresponding correction is entered in Table 2. AoS is deleted . Now pages are 34
Boson Sampling for Molecular Vibronic Spectra
Creators: name: Huh, Joonsuk
name: Guerreschi, Gian Giacomo
name: Peropadre, Borja
name: McClean, Jarrod R.
name: Aspuru-Guzik, Alán
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Computational Physics (physics.comp-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Quantum computers are expected to be more efficient in performing certain computations than any classical machine. Unfortunately, the technological challenges associated with building a full-scale quantum computer have not yet allowed the experimental verification of such an expectation. Recently, boson sampling has emerged as a problem that is suspected to be intractable on any classical computer, but efficiently implementable with a linear quantum optical setup. Therefore, boson sampling may offer an experimentally realizable challenge to the Extended Church-Turing thesis and this remarkable possibility motivated much of the interest around boson sampling, at least in relation to complexity-theoretic questions. In this work, we show that the successful development of a boson sampling apparatus would not only answer such inquiries, but also yield a practical tool for difficult molecular computations. Specifically, we show that a boson sampling device with a modified input state can be used to generate molecular vibronic spectra, including complicated effects such as Duschinsky rotations.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures
Mindful Parenting, Parenting Cognitions, and Parent-Youth Communication: Bidirectional Linkages and Mediational Processes
Creators: name: Coatsworth, J.D.
name: Duncan, L.G.
name: Lippold, M.A.
name: Greenberg, M.T.
name: Nix, R.L.
name: Jensen, T.M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Objectives: Mindful parenting and parenting cognitions likely have important linkages to each other and to parent-child communication, but these linkages have not been tested. In this article, we test the bidirectional linkages between mindful parenting and parenting cognitions (sense of competence, parent-centered attributions) and the underlying mediational processes that link them to parent-child communication (parental solicitation and youth disclosure). Methods: Longitudinal, autoregressive cross-lagged models were run within a longitudinal sample of rural and suburban early adolescents and their mothers (n = 421; mean adolescent age = 12.14, 46% male, 73% white). Results: Significant bidirectional linkages were found between mindful parenting and parenting cognitions across Time 1 and Time 2. Greater mindful parenting at Time 1 was associated with more positive parenting cognitions (e.g., greater perceptions of parental competence and fewer negative parent-centered attributions or self-blame) at Time 2. More positive parenting cognitions at Time 1 were also associated with greater levels of mindful parenting at Time 2. Mindful parenting at Time 2 mediated the association between parenting cognitions (both parent-centered attributions and sense of competence) at Time 1 and parental solicitation at Time 3. Conclusions: Mindful parenting and parenting cognitions influence each other over time. Parenting cognitions can affect parental solicitation via increases in mindful parenting. The discussion focuses on potential underlying processes.
An insight from computational approach to explore novel, high-affinity phosphodiesterase 10A inhibitors for neurological disorders
Creators: name: Sharma, Bhanu
name: Bhattacherjee, Dhananjay
name: Zyryanov, Grigory V.
name: Purohit, Rituraj
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biotechnology
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: The enzyme Phosphodiesterase 10A (PDE10A) plays a regulatory role in the cAMP/protein kinase A (PKA) signaling pathway by means of hydrolyzing cAMP and cGMP. PDE10A emerges as a relevant pharmacological drug target for neurological conditions such as psychosis, schizophrenia, Parkinson's, Huntington’s disease, and other memory-related disorders. In the current study, we subjected a set of 1,2,3-triazoles to be explored as PDE10A inhibitors using diverse computational approaches, including molecular docking, classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulations, Molecular Mechanics Poisson-Boltzmann Surface Area (MM-PBSA) calculations, steered MD, and umbrella sampling simulations. Molecular docking of cocrystallized ligands papaverine and PFJ, along with a set of in-house synthesized molecules, suggested that molecule 3i haded the highest binding affinity, followed by 3h and 3j. Furthermore, the structural stability studies using MD and MM-PBSA indicated that the 3h and 3j formed stable complexes with PDE10A. The binding free energy of −240.642 kJ/mol and −201.406 kJ/mol was observed for 3h and 3j, respectively. However, the cocrystallized ligands papaverine and PFJ exhibited comparitively higher binding free energy values of −202.030 kJ/mol and −138.764 kJ/mol, respectively. Additionally, steered MD and umbrella sampling simulations provided conclusive evidence that the molecules 3h and 3j could be exploited as promising candidates to target PDE10A. Communicated by Ramaswamy H. Sarma
A scoping review of research on well-being across diverse family structures: Rethinking approaches for understanding contemporary families
Creators: name: Sanner, C.
name: Jensen, T.M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: In the United States and across the globe, demographic trends have coalesced to produce an increasingly diverse set of family structures, fueling international interest in exploring diverse family structures as key developmental contexts for adults and children. Given the persistence of research focused on well-being differences across family structures, and in order to move this research into the future productively, it is critical to rigorously chart and evaluate how this research is being conducted. In this scoping review, we evaluate 283 studies that examined associations between family structure and well-being. We reflect on dominant methodological trends across four primary domains: (a) approaches to measuring family structure, (b) approaches to analyzing associations between family structure and well-being, (c) the application of theory, and (d) conceptualizations of well-being. In evaluating observable trends, we offer recommendations for rethinking where we can (and perhaps should) go next to better understand and support contemporary families.
Letter from Walter de la Mare to Douglas Goldring, June 23, 1944
Creators: name: De La Mare, Walter, 1873-1956
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/54738
subject: Novelists, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1039718
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Novelists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1039684
subject: Poets, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067870
subject: Goldring, Douglas, 1887-1960
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1798259
subject: Journalists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/984188
subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945

description: A letter from novelist, poet, and critic Walter de la Mare, in which de la Mare responds to a letter from Goldring containing concerns about writers’ struggles during the war and the R.L.F. Committee. This letter is published with acknowledgement to The Literary Trustees of Walter de la Mare and the Society of Authors as their Representative.
Classical and quantum behavior of the harmonic and the quartic oscillators
Creators: name: Brizuela, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a previous paper a formalism to analyze the dynamical evolution of classical and quantum probability distributions in terms of their moments was presented. Here the application of this formalism to the system of a particle moving on a potential is considered in order to derive physical implications about the classical limit of a quantum system. The complete set of harmonic potentials is considered, which includes the particle under a uniform force, as well as the harmonic and the inverse harmonic oscillators. In addition, as an example of anharmonic system, the pure quartic oscillator is analyzed. Classical and quantum moments corresponding to stationary states of these systems are analytically obtained without solving any differential equation. Finally, dynamical states are also considered in order to study the differences between their classical and quantum evolution.
description: 14 pages, 2 columns, 4 figures. Minor changes
Thermal equilibrium of non-neutral plasma in dipole magnetic field
Creators: name: Sato, Naoki
name: Kasaoka, Norikazu
name: Yoshida, Zensho
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Plasma Physics (physics.plasm-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Self-organization of a long-lived structure is one of the remarkable characteristics of macroscopic systems governed by long-range interactions. In a homogeneous magnetic field, a non-neutral plasma creates a "thermal equilibrium" which is a Boltzmann distribution on a rigidly rotating frame. Here, we study how a non-neutral plasma self-organizes in inhomogeneous magnetic field; as a typical system we consider a dipole magnetic field. In this generalized setting, the plasma exhibits its fundamental mechanism that determines the relaxed state. The scale hierarchy of adiabatic invariants is the determinant; the Boltzmann distribution under the topological constraint by the robust adiabatic invariants (hence, the homogeneous distribution with respect to the fragile invariant) is the relevant relaxed state, which turns out to be a rigidly rotating clump of particles (just same as in a homogeneous magnetic field), while the density is no longer homogeneous.
description: 7 pages, 11 figures
Crack propagation in the drying of complex fluids
Creators: name: Uppal, Arandeep
Publisher: name: Imperial College London
Year: 2019

description: The drying behaviour of thin films is a ubiquitous phenomena, important to a multitude of industries and applications. When a solid phase is present, the added complexity leads to a variety of possible patterning behaviours. This thesis focuses on thin films that crack during drying. The physical underpinning of the varying crack morphologies that occur is only partly understood and a hierarchy of models are derived to account for the evaporative process. We distinguish three regimes of interest; structure development, evolution and fracture formation. Each process is isolated to understand the intricacies that occur during drying. Structure formation is modelled by a structure parameter, inspired by the study of thixotropy. The initiation and propagation of cracks in drying gels are modelled with a damage parameter, whereby discrete cracks are homogenised into a continuous field. The naturally occurring length scales allow for dimension reduction by the lubrication approximation. At leading order in the aspect ratio, ε = H/L, the solid fraction is found to be enslaved to the evolution of the free surface. Increased evaporation at the contact line drives drying fronts, regions of increased solid fraction which invade into the bulk. Evaporation-driven compression induce tensile stresses within the plane, resulting in cracks initiating at the contact line. Similar to experimental evidence, cracking occurs before 20% of the droplet mass has evaporated off, further promoted by front formation. In addition, the crack morphologies display an order-to-disorder transition as drying fronts become stronger. During experiments, increased evaporation at the contact line results in the formation of a gelled annulus, surrounding a thinner gelled nucleus. An alternative model is derived, where we consider both regions independently, finding good agreement with experiments. In particular, the formation of radial cracks in the outer rim, alongside discrete or cellular morphologies within the bulk dependent upon effective parameters.
D3.3 - Overview of progress on topical task forces
Creators: name: Steiner, Tobias
name: Rettberg, Najla
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: OpenAIRE
National Open Access Desk
NOAD
task forces

description: The OpenAIRE-Advance project runs a number of task forces in three topical areas relevant to open science: Research Data Management, Open Science Policies, and Legal Issues for Research Data. This deliverable has the goal of outlining the development of these task forces, to present the players involved, and the outputs produced during these first 24 months. Drawing from the task forces’ experiences, suggestions will be made on how to streamline future activities in the topical fields covered by the task forces. The aim of the OpenAIRE-Advance task forces is to synergistically leverage the already-existing wealth of expertise in the network of OpenAIRE stakeholders, and to collaboratively develop a publicly shared pool of knowledge and communities of practice around these key issues. This is facilitated via joint production of dissemination material (e.g. guides, fact sheets, and checklists), as well as via a collection of webinars, which are organized by task force leaders, often in cooperation with internal experts from the network, and external stakeholders and third parties with expertise in a given topic. NOADs play an active role in OpenAIRE-Advance’s topical task forces not only in the contribution to the written outcomes (guides, fact sheets, and checklists) but also with the webinars organised by the task force leaders. In January 2019, it was decided to merge the legal and policy task forces. During the reporting period, a web page has been created to give visibility to the members of the Task Forces and their outputs. To give more visibility to the activities of the task forces, their outputs have also been added to OpenAIRE’s overall list of support materialson the website.
The bottom-quark mass from non-relativistic sum rules at NNNLO
Creators: name: Beneke, M.
name: Maier, A.
name: Piclum, J.
name: Rauh, T.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We determine the mass of the bottom quark from high moments of the bottom production cross section in e+ e- annihilation, which are dominated by the threshold region. On the theory side next-to-next-to-next-to-leading order (NNNLO) calculations both for the resonances and the continuum cross section are used for the first time. We find mb,PS(2 GeV) = 4.532 +0.013 -0.039 GeV for the potential-subtracted mass and mb,MSbar(mb,MSbar) = 4.193 +0.022 -0.035 GeV for the MSbar bottom-quark mass.
description: 37 pages, 5 figures. Minor change in charm-effect uncertainty, update of conversion uncertainty for MSbar mass, added clarifications and references
Toward More Accurate Measures of Family Structure: Accounting for Sibling Complexity
Creators: name: Sanner, C.
name: Jensen, T.M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: In this article, we argue that accounting for sibling complexity is a necessary step toward more accurate assessments of family structure. First, we argue that current conceptualizations of family structure are rooted in (and reinforce) Eurocentric definitions of family, and we highlight contradictions between family theory and measurements of family structure. Second, we discuss the prevalence of diverse sibling compositions in families and show the informative value of accounting for sibling complexity. Third, we explore the barriers to accounting for sibling structure by evaluating the extent to which complex sibling compositions are captured in publicly available secondary datasets recently used to study families. Finally, we consider both theoretical and methodological implications of failing to account for sibling complexity in family research and offer recommendations for future data collection efforts.
Letter from Walter de la Mare to John Betjeman, May 04, 1938
Creators: name: De La Mare, Walter, 1873-1956
Publisher: name: University of Victoria Libraries
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Poets laureate
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067788
subject: De la Mare, Walter, 1873-1956
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/54738
subject: Scholars
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1106878
subject: Authors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821688
subject: Periodical editors
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1058064
subject: Broadcasters
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/839184
subject: Novelists, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1039718
subject: Journalists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/984188
subject: Critics
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/883769
subject: Authors, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/821945
subject: Novelists
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1039684
subject: Betjeman, John, 1906-1984
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1427507
subject: Poets
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067778
subject: Poets, English
valueUri: http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1067870

description: A letter from English critic and writer Walter de la Mare, known for his children’s and horror stories. In this letter, de la Mare declines Betjeman’s invitation to take part in a memorial for Richard Jefferies and Alfred Williams, on the grounds that such a project requires significant amounts of time and correspondence. He suggests that Betjeman ask Henry Williamson instead. This letter is published with acknowledgement to The Literary Trustees of Walter de la Mare and the Society of Authors as their Representative.