cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Novel RNA Secondary Structures in Chikungunya Virus and Their Impact on Viral Replication
Creators: name: White, Ashlyn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) is a single-stranded positive sense RNA mosquito borne alphavirus. In humans, this virus results in debilitating arthritis accompanied by fever, rash, myalgia, and headache. At this time, CHIKV has no licensed vaccines or approved specific treatments except for symptomatic relief such as NSAIDs to decrease inflammation. Thus far, the genome sequence of CHIKV and the proteins it encodes have been well studied, but the role the RNA secondary structure itself and the impact it has on viral replication and pathogenesis is less understood. Using SHAPE-MaP analysis, eighteen novel, highly stable RNA structures have been identified in the coding region of the CHIKV genome. To understand the function of these structures, we systematically disrupted each by introducing mutations that change their structure while maintaining codon usage and tested both the infectivity of the naked RNA through specific infectivity assays and viral replication through growth curves.  At this time these structural mutants have not shown an impact on RNA infectivity or viral replication compared to that of a wild type vaccine strain of CHIKV (181/25) in mosquito or mammalian cells; however, further characterization in additional immune competent cell lines is required to fully understand the impact that these structures have on viral replication, pathogenesis, and host range. By defining the role that the novel RNA structures play in the lifecycle and pathogenesis of the CHIKV virus, it may expand the possible targets for CHIKV therapies and vaccines.
Secure Communication Using Electronic Identity Cards for Voice over IP Communication, Home Energy Management, and eMobility
Creators: name: Falk, Rainer
name: Fries, Steffen
name: Hof, Hans-Joachim
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cryptography and Security (cs.CR)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Using communication services is a common part of everyday life in a personal or business context. Communication services include Internet services like voice services, chat service, and web 2.0 technologies (wikis, blogs, etc), but other usage areas like home energy management and eMobility are will be increasingly tackled. Such communication services typically authenticate participants. For this identities of some kind are used to identify the communication peer to the user of a service or to the service itself. Calling line identification used in the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) used for Voice over IP (VoIP) is just one example. Authentication and identification of eCar users for accounting during charging of the eCar is another example. Also, further mechanisms rely on identities, e.g., whitelists defining allowed communication peers. Trusted identities prevent identity spoofing, hence are a basic building block for the protection of communication. However, providing trusted identities in a practical way is still a difficult problem and too often application specific identities are used, making identity handling a hassle. Nowadays, many countries introduced electronic identity cards, e.g., the German "Elektronischer Personalausweis" (ePA). As many German citizens will possess an ePA soon, it can be used as security token to provide trusted identities. Especially new usage areas (like eMobility) should from the start be based on the ubiquitous availability of trusted identities. This paper describes how identity cards can be integrated within three domains: home energy management, vehicle-2-grid communication, and SIP-based voice over IP telephony. In all three domains, identity cards are used to reliably identify users and authenticate participants. As an example for an electronic identity card, this paper focuses on the German ePA.
Latest results from the NA61/SHINE beam energy scan with p+p and Be+Be collisions
Creators: name: Mackowiak-Pawlowska, Maja
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The NA61/SHINE experiment aims to discover the critical point of strongly interacting matter and study the properties of the onset of deconfinement by measurements of hadron production properties in proton-proton, proton-nucleus and nucleus-nucleus interactions in the CERN SPS energy range. This contribution presents results on the energy dependence of hadron spectra and yields as well as on fluctuations and two-particle correlations in p+p and centrality selected Be+Be collisions. In particular, the energy dependence of the signal of deconfinement, the "horn", observed in central Pb+Pb collisions is compared with the corresponding results from p+p interactions. Also string-hadronic models are tested using hadron spectra and fluctuations measured in p+p interactions. Results on fluctuations (multiplicity and transverse momentum) are presented as a function of the collision energy for Be+Be and p+p collisions in search for the critical point of strongly interacting matter.
description: HEP2015 proceedings
Reward Processing in First-Degree Relatives of Individuals with Schizophrenia
Creators: name: Jagadesh, Niveditha
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Schizophrenia is a psychological disorder that affects individuals’ cognitions, behaviors, emotions and ultimately, their ability to function in society. Finding ways to address and treat the abnormalities caused by this disorder could help to better affected individuals’ quality of life. This study addresses one such abnormality, dysfunctional reward processing, by studying first-degree relatives of individuals with schizophrenia, since they exhibit similar functional brain differences and are highly vulnerable. I examined whether there were functional connectivity differences between healthy control participants and first-degree relatives of individuals with schizophrenia in three networks: the default mode network (DMN), the salience network (SAL), and the subcortical regions of the reward network (SUB). 30 healthy participants (age range 8-18) and 10 first-degree relatives (age range 8-18) performed a probabilistic learning task while undergoing fMRI. Participants classified abstract stimuli into one of two categories and were given feedback in the form of a monetary reward. Results showed that for SUB within-network functional connectivity, first-degree relatives showed marginally higher mean connectivity than healthy control participants during stimulus presentation. First-degree relatives also showed significantly higher mean connectivity values between brain networks than healthy control participants during stimulus presentation; during feedback, this association was only marginally significant. Results imply that first-degree relatives have more diffuse functional connectivity than healthy controls, which suggests their ability to process information quickly and with targeted intent is less efficient. Future interventions addressing these functional abnormalities could be helpful in treating symptoms of schizophrenia, like anhedonia.
EUTOPIA Citizen Science Starter Kit - Tool 8: Assemble the project team
Creators: name: Veeckman, Carina
name: Van den Bogaert, Lawrence
name: Keersmaekers, Floor
name: Livémont, Eline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: citizen science

description: This template is part of Module 4 “Getting started with citizen science” (phase 1 – Prepare) of the EUTOPIA TRAIN Citizen Science Starter Kit. It helps you to assemble your project team.
Supplementary document for Introducing a 2V-resonator for improvement of pulse stability in a high-gain Q-switched Yb:YAG thin-disk laser - 6332661.pdf
Creators: name: Moshaii, Ahmad
name: Radmard, Saeid
name: Pasandideh, Kaveh
name: Arabgari, Saeed
Publisher: name: Optica Publishing Group
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Supplementary file
Directive Surface Plasmons on Tunable Two-Dimensional Hyperbolic Metasurfaces and Black Phosphorus: Green's Function and Complex Plane Analysis
Creators: name: Gangaraj, S. Ali Hassani
name: Low, Tony
name: Nemilentsau, Andrei
name: Hanson, George W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the electromagnetic response of two- and quasi-two-dimensional hyperbolic materials, on which a simple dipole source can excite a well-confined and tunable surface plasmon polariton (SPP). The analysis is based on the Green's function for an anisotropic two-dimensional surface, which nominally requires the evaluation of a two-dimensional Sommerfeld integral. We show that for the SPP contribution this integral can be evaluated efficiently in a mixed continuous-discrete form as a continuous spectrum contribution (branch cut integral) of a residue term, in distinction to the isotropic case, where the SPP is simply given as a discrete residue term. The regime of strong SPP excitation is discussed, and complex-plane singularities are identified, leading to physical insight into the excited SPP. We also present a stationary phase solution valid for large radial distances. Examples are presented using graphene strips to form a hyperbolic metasurface, and thin-film black phosphorus. The Green's function and complex-plane analysis developed allows for the exploration of hyperbolic plasmons in general 2D materials.
How does Women's Preconception Health Status Affect Infant Health?
Creators: name: Yu, Chenxi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: This research investigates the relationship between women's preconception health status and
infant health. Nearly half of all pregnancies in the United States are unintended, which presents a
significant public health challenge, as women often do not start necessary healthy practices until they
first discover their pregnancies. Several risk factors that have been shown to influence fetal
development can develop in women months or years before pregnancy. In this research, the
pregnancy outcomes that are examined include the probability of pregnancy, the probability of a live
birth, length of gestation, and birth weight of infants. Women's preconception health status is
measured by self-reported fair/poor health status, Body Mass Index, and smoker status at the time
of pregnancy as well as one, two, and three years prior to pregnancy. The effect of women's
preconception health status on pregnancy outcomes is investigated by several estimation methods
designed to reduce bias in the estimated marginal effects. These estimators include Ordinary Least
Squares, fixed effect, random effect, and Heckman selection. The research employs data from all
four waves of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health. However, instead of analyzing
the responses at each wave, information in the survey was used to identify the timing of all births to
a woman in the sample, expanding a 4-wave panel data set into a 21-year panel data set. Hence, an annual data set
is constructed with information on mothers' health multiple years prior to pregnancy,
allowing for a yearly hazard model of pregnancy. Self-reported fair/poor health one and three years
prior to pregnancy has a positive impact on the pregnancy probability on older women (age>21) but
a negative impact for younger women (age<21). Being underweight one and three years prior to
pregnancy negatively affects pregnancy probability. Smoking prior to pregnancy has a negative
impact on the probability of a live birth and birth weights of infants. Our findings suggest that we
cannot rule out a causal role of women's health multiple years prior to pregnancy in infant health
outcomes.
APLIKASI WEB PENGINGAT REGISTRASI MAHASISWA BERBASIS SMS (SHORT MESSAGE SERVICE) GATEWAY STUDI KASUS : UNIVERSITAS TRIBUANA KALABAHI
Creators: name: Malese, Lasarus
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Architecture
subject: FOS: Civil engineering
subject: Education
subject: Engineering
subject: Aplikasi, Web, Registrasi, SMS gateway, UML

description: Sistem registrasi mahasiswa di Universitas Tribuana Kalabahi (UNTRIB), diadakan hanya dalam kurun waktu sesuai kalender akademik semester tersebut. Tahapan registrasi dilakukan 2 (dua) kali setiap semester yakni registrasi biaya Sumbangan Pembinaan Pendidikan (SPP) dan registrasi biaya Satuan Kredit Semester (SKS). Pembayaran registrasi yang dilakukan oleh mahasiswa sering tidak tepat waktu sesuai kalender akademik. Hal ini memberikan dampak buruk bagi keberlanjutan pembelajaran mahasiswa itu sendiri karena dibatasi hak pelayanan akademiknya meliputi hak perkuliahan, praktikum, praktek kerja lapangan, praktek pengenalan lapangan, bimbingan akademik/kepenasehatan, bimbingan penulisan skripsi, bahkan ujian skripsi. Akibat lainnya adalah terjadi tunggakan pembayaran disetiap semester dengan angkatan yang berbeda pada 10 (sepuluh) program studi mencapai r± Rp. 2.264.690.000,- (dua milyar dua ratus enam puluh empat juta enam ratus sembilan puluh ribu rupiah). Hal ini dapat diatasi dengan rancangan aplikasi web berbasis SMS(Short Message Service) gateway yang dapat mengirimkan pesan jadwal registrasi administrasi ke semua mahasiswa, sistem yang di rancang ini juga dapat mengirimkan pesan keterlambatan (denda) registrasi pada ponsel mahasiswa yang lalai registrasi, Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah metode iterative. Secara umum dalam pembangunan perangkat lunak pada model iterative terdapat tahapan-tahapan yang meliputi : requirement, analysis, design sistem, implementation, dan review. Analisis kebutuhan perancangan dan implementasi sistem dilakukan melalui tahapan pembuatan Model UML (Unified Modelling Language). Sedangkan Analisis kebutuhan perangkat lunak menggunakan Web server apache, server-side scripting PHP, Gammu sebagai aplikasi SMS gateway dan basis data MySQL berbasis web yang sudah terbundel dalam apache. Aplikasi yang dibangun telah berhasil mengirimkan pesan jadwal registrasi administrasi ke semua mahasiswa Universitas Tribuana Kalabahi disetiap semester dan angkatan yang berbeda serta pesan keterlambatan (denda) bagi mahasiswa yang lalai melakukan registrasi secara administrasi.
The Impact of International Criminal Court Arrest Warrants on Peace Processes
Creators: name: Sturkey, Anna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: On July 17, 1998, the international community created the Rome Statute, the document outlining the creation of the ICC. The Rome Statute was ratified by 60 countries by July 1, 2002, making the ICC a legitimate and operating institution (About the Court). The ICC is able to prosecute four categories of crime – genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and crimes of aggression (Schabas 2011, 88) – for which it has temporal jurisdiction, personal jurisdiction, and territorial jurisdiction. Temporal jurisdiction limits the court to only considering crimes that occurred after the Rome Statute was ratified (Schabas 2011, 69). Personal jurisdiction allows the court to consider crimes where the accused is a national of a state party regardless of where the crimes occurred (Schabas 2011, 76). Finally, territorial jurisdiction empowers the ICC to exercise jurisdiction over crimes that occur within the territory of a state party to the ICC or where the United Nations Security Council gives jurisdiction to crimes occurring in a particular territory (Schabas 2011, 81). The ICC was created to end impunity for international criminals, and to subsequently stop and prevent international atrocities (Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court 2002, 1).
Although the creation of a court to end impunity for international crimes was celebrated by many, critics worried about the impact of the ICC in ongoing conflicts. Specifically, some scholars argued that, “When faced with indictment and punishment, a human rights abuser might in fact dig in his heels, and refuse to give up or compromise” (Ginsburg 2009, 502). This debate over the ICC has been termed the “peace versus justice” debate with scholars wondering if the ICC forces a choice between peace and justice. The question this thesis grapples with is the whether the ICC does pursue justice to the detriment of a peace process.
Improving search order for reachability testing in timed automata
Creators: name: Herbreteau, Frédéric
name: Tran, Thanh-Tung
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Formal Languages and Automata Theory (cs.FL)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Standard algorithms for reachability analysis of timed automata are sensitive to the order in which the transitions of the automata are taken. To tackle this problem, we propose a ranking system and a waiting strategy. This paper discusses the reason why the search order matters and shows how a ranking system and a waiting strategy can be integrated into the standard reachability algorithm to alleviate and prevent the problem respectively. Experiments show that the combination of the two approaches gives optimal search order on standard benchmarks except for one example. This suggests that it should be used instead of the standard BFS algorithm for reachability analysis of timed automata.
EUTOPIA Citizen Science Starter Kit - Tool 7: Impact statement
Creators: name: Veeckman, Carina
name: Van den Bogaert, Lawrence
name: Keersmaekers, Floor
name: Livémont, Eline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: citizen science

description: This template is part of Module 4 “Getting started with citizen science” (phase 1 – Prepare) of the EUTOPIA TRAIN Citizen Science Starter Kit. It helps you to reflect on the potential impact of your project.
Stochastic excitation of internal gravity waves inside rotating F-type stars - A non-linear approach through 3D simulation
Creators: name: Breton, Sylvain N.
name: Brun, Allan Sacha
name: García, Rafael A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: asteroseismology
solar-type stars
3D simulation
rotation
gravity waves

description: Nearly everywhere in the Hertzsprung-Russell diagram, internal gravity waves (IGW) are of primary importance to understand the dynamic of the radiative interiors. Their behaviour, directly related to the structure of their resonant cavity, is strongly influenced by rotation. For the stars where they have been observed, standing IGWs, or gravity modes (g modes), have shown evidences of a solid body rotational state for radiative interiors. If we want to probe in the same way the deep regions of solar-like stars, such g-mode observations are required at this range of effective temperatures. However, for these stars, the task is made difficult by the presence of the convective envelope, where IGWs are evanescent. Convective envelopes are found to be shallower in late F-type stars, which still exhibit solar-like acoustic pulsations. Therefore, we want to predict the surface amplitude of stochastically excited g modes for F-type stars with Teff ~ 6350 K. We use 3D simulations as they constitute a powerful tool to explore stellar interior dynamics. In particular, they are able to capture non-linearities of the considered system, especially concerning IGWs stochastic excitation.
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Bridging centrality and extremity: Refining empirical data depth using extreme value statistics
Creators: name: Einmahl, John H. J.
name: Li, Jun
name: Liu, Regina Y.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistics Theory (math.ST)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Statistical depth measures the centrality of a point with respect to a given distribution or data cloud. It provides a natural center-outward ordering of multivariate data points and yields a systematic nonparametric multivariate analysis scheme. In particular, the half-space depth is shown to have many desirable properties and broad applicability. However, the empirical half-space depth is zero outside the convex hull of the data. This property has rendered the empirical half-space depth useless outside the data cloud, and limited its utility in applications where the extreme outlying probability mass is the focal point, such as in classification problems and control charts with very small false alarm rates. To address this issue, we apply extreme value statistics to refine the empirical half-space depth in "the tail." This provides an important linkage between data depth, which is useful for inference on centrality, and extreme value statistics, which is useful for inference on extremity. The refined empirical half-space depth can thus extend all its utilities beyond the data cloud, and hence broaden greatly its applicability. The refined estimator is shown to have substantially improved upon the empirical estimator in theory and simulations. The benefit of this improvement is also demonstrated through the applications in classification and statistical process control.
description: Published at http://dx.doi.org/10.1214/15-AOS1359 in the Annals of Statistics (http://www.imstat.org/aos/) by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (http://www.imstat.org)
The Blazhko effect and additional excited modes in RR Lyrae stars
Creators: name: Benkő, J. M.
name: Szabó, R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recent photometric space missions, such as CoRoT and Kepler revealed that many RR Lyrae stars pulsate -- beyond their main radial pulsation mode -- in low amplitude modes. Space data seem to indicate a clear trend, namely overtone (RRc) stars and modulated fundamental (RRab) RR Lyrae stars ubiquitously show additional modes, while non-Blazhko RRab stars never do. Two Kepler stars (V350 Lyr and KIC 7021124), however, apparently seemed to break this rule: they were classified as non-Blazhko RRab stars showing additional modes. We processed Kepler pixel photometric data of these stars. We detected small amplitude, but significant Blazhko effect for both stars by using the resulted light curves and O$-$C diagrams. This finding strengthens the apparent connection between the Blazhko effect and the excitation of additional modes. In addition, it yields a potential tool for detecting Blazhko stars through the additional frequency patterns even if we have only short but accurate time series observations. V350 Lyr shows the smallest amplitude multiperiodic Blazhko effect ever detected.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures and 2 tables. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters
"A Witch? Who is Not?": Engendering Witchcraft on the Shakespearean Stage
Creators: name: Porter, Caroline
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: The main goal of my thesis is to examine the ways in which expressions of early modern witchcraft can be nontraditionally read into Shakespearean works. I hope to stress how witchcraft, while rooted in the feminine body, is not a practice exclusively performed by the old poor widow women who are commonly associated with it. As the witch of Edmonton herself recognizes, “A witch? Who is not? / Hold not that universal name in scorn then” (4.1.104-105). Reading witchcraft into Shakespeare’s work in nontraditional ways allows the analysis and discussion of witchcraft in the period to break away from the gendered construct it is often relegated to. I hope to emphasize that men, too, can be vulnerable to a marginalized discourse that shares many similarities with witchcraft. By tracking this discourse in Shakespeare’s works, we can further see how witchcraft thinking and language permeates the writing on more than just a superficial level, often shaping social and political conflict and struggles for power in telling ways.
Physiology of the Moral Mind: The Roles of the Sympathetic Nervous System and Immune System in Moral Judgments
Creators: name: Banks, Emmie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: The long-standing debate of the role of affect versus conscious reasoning in moral judgment has reached a new horizon, now that it is clear affect has a place in this process. However, our understanding of what physiological processes contribute to moral judgment, and how, is currently under-specified. To address this gap in our knowledge, the current study utilized a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled design in which a pharmacological manipulation was used to test if suppressing sympathetic nervous system (SNS) activity caused less severe moral judgments in purity violations compared to unaltered physiology. The study also tested if levels of inflammation, a core component of the innate immune system, influences moral judgment severity. Moral judgment was assessed by having participants rate 33 morally questionable acts on four critical dimensions (immorality, harm, disgust, and how much there is a victim involved). Inflammation was measured through blood samples using immunoassay procedures. The results are consistent with previous work showing that disgust is only impactful on judgments of immorality to the extent that a violation is seen as harmful, and builds on that to show that activation of the SNS when judging purity acts contributes to perceptions of harm, and thus, immorality. The hypothesis that a relationship exists between moral judgment severity and inflammation was not supported. Implications of the observed involvement of the SNS in moral judgment are made.
Cancellation of Glauber gluon exchange in the double Drell-Yan process
Creators: name: Diehl, Markus
name: Gaunt, Jonathan R.
name: Ostermeier, Daniel
name: Ploessl, Peter
name: Schafer, Andreas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An essential part of any factorisation proof is the demonstration that the exchange of Glauber gluons cancels for the considered observable. We show this cancellation at all orders for double Drell-Yan production (the double parton scattering process in which a pair of electroweak gauge bosons is produced) both for the integrated cross section and for the cross section differential in the transverse boson momenta. In the process of constructing this proof, we also revisit and clarify some issues regarding the Glauber cancellation argument and its relation to the rest of the factorisation proof for the single Drell-Yan process.
description: 65 pages, 23 figures
$L^p$-Asymptotics of Fourier transform of fractal measures
Creators: name: Raani, K. S. Senthil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 42B25, 42B10, 28A78, 28A80, 26D15, 37F35

description: One of the basic questions in harmonic analysis is to study the decay properties of the Fourier transform of measures or distributions supported on thin sets in $\mathbb{R}^n$. When the support is a smooth enough manifold, an almost complete picture is available. One of the early results in this direction is the following: Let $f\in C_c^{\infty}(\mathbb{R}^n)$ and $dσ$ be the surface measure on the sphere $S^{n-1}\subset\mathbb{R}^n$. Then $$|\widehat{fdσ}(ξ)|\leq\ C\ (1+|ξ|)^{-\frac{n-1}{2}}.$$ It follows that $\widehat{fdσ}\in L^p(\mathbb{R}^n)$ for all $p>\frac{2n}{n-1}$. This result can be extended to compactly supported measure on $(n-1)$-dimensional manifolds with appropriate assumptions on the curvature. Similar results are known for measures supported in lower dimensional manifolds in $\mathbb{R}^n$ under appropriate curvature conditions. However, the picture for fractal measures is far from complete. This thesis is a contribution to the study of asymptotic properties of the Fourier transform of measures supported in sets of fractal dimension $0
description: Thesis submitted in Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
Language detection
Creators: name: Lukács, Gáspár
name: Kawai, Claudia
name: Ansorge, Ulrich
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This experiment follows up on the two experiments introducing a response time Concealed Information Test (RT-CIT) to detect concealed knowledge of a language.
Britons, Beasts, and Benighted Savages: British Superiority in Nineteenth Century Children’s Periodicals
Creators: name: Soboeiro, Andrew
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: An intrepid British explorer outwits and escapes a horde of bloodthirsty African
cannibals. The Royal Navy defeats a fleet of merciless Arab slave traders. A cabal of
Indian thieves plots to rob a British official but fails because the thieves are too
untrustworthy to cooperate. Stories like these frequently appeared in British children’s
magazines during the nineteenth century. Meant to entertain child readers and teach them
moral lessons, these stories also reinforced popular racial and ethnic stereotypes, as well
as the belief that white, Protestant Britons were superior to other peoples. By studying the
stories published in nineteenth-century periodicals, I have illuminated the ways in which
British children learned to conceive of race, ethnicity, and national identity.
"Is Hijab for Kazakh Girls?": Shifting the Borders of Kazakh Nationhood and the Modern in Almaty, Kazakhstan
Creators: name: Herbert, Lily
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: In this thesis, I will focus on how women embody shifting definitions of Kazakh identity within a complex, post-colonial, fragmented national context. I draw on a body of feminist geopolitical and geographic literature that has emphasized the importance of considering scale and embodied practices in an analysis of geopolitical trends (Dowler and Sharpe 2001, Fluri 2006, Holloway 2006, Smith 2009). I examine women’s veiling as a socio-spatial practice that reflects local and national discourse on the nature of the relationship between the state and its citizens (Gokariksel 2009), and as a performance of discourse on and reaction to hegemonic corporeal modernity that has predominated in Kazakhstan’s wealthiest spaces since independence (Fluri 2011). Through an analysis of interviews with women, mass media and ethnographic participation in Almaty, Kazakhstan, I argue that women’s choices to veil or not are geopolitical, central to competing visions and formations of Kazakh identity and how Kazakhstan situates itself in relation to its past, its neighbors, and the world.
Generalizable Fabrication of Transferrable 2-Dimensional Metal Oxides on Ultraflat Sacrificial Ionic Substrates through Atomic Layer Deposition
Creators: name: White, Ryan Christopher
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Two-dimensional (2D) materials hold immense potential for both improvement of current technologies and employment in novel technology due to the alterations of material properties as size transitions from the macroscopic to nanoscopic state where quantum-confined states emerge. While some 2D materials have already been investigated, such as graphene, MoS2, and a few ultrathin transition metal oxide films, many of these materials are prepared via exfoliation or other physical breakdown methods of a bulk material with a few grown by CVD with low structural control. The class of materials where this is experimentally demonstrated is rather restricted in scope, and exfoliation methods are limited in product yield. In this study, I present a scalable method for general fabrication of 2D metal oxide materials through atomic layer deposition (ALD) using oriented ionic substrates. This study seeks to expand the availability of 2D materials by determining a fabrication method that would only be limited by the availability of ALD precursor materials and could be easily scaled to the size of the substrate. TiO2 was selected as a model system to fabricate for its practical usefulness and versatility in a number of applications such as catalysis and photovoltaic devices. Ultraflat, single-crystal NaCl slabs were chemically-treated and used as substrates for ALD TiO2 fabrication, employing only the (100) NaCl surface. A custom-designed “saturation-pulse deposition” (SPD) process was used to deposit the Ti precursor and fabricate the film. After deposition, the system was spin-coated with polypropylene carbonate (PPC) and the film was lifted off the NaCl substrate in a basin of ultrapure DI water, selectively dissolving the ionic substrate and allowing the resulting material to be isolated and transferred to a substrate of choice.
EUTOPIA Citizen Science Starter Kit - Tool 6: Reflect on your project objectives
Creators: name: Veeckman, Carina
name: Van den Bogaert, Lawrence
name: Keersmaekers, Floor
name: Livémont, Eline
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: citizen science

description: This template is part of Module 4 “Getting started with citizen science” (phase 1 – Prepare) of the EUTOPIA TRAIN Citizen Science Starter Kit. It helps you to reflect on the possible objectives you can achieve through your citizen science project.
Word Predictability Affects Saccade Length in Chinese Reading: An Evaluation of the Dynamic-Adjustment Model
Creators: name: Liu, Yanping
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022

description: How does a word’s within-sentence predictability influence saccade length during reading? An eye-movement experiment manipulating the predictability of target words indicates that, relative to low-predictability target words, high-predictability targets elicit longer saccades to themselves. Simulations using computational models that respectively instantiate the targeting of saccades to default locations (Yan, Kliegl, Richter, Nuthmann, & Shu, 2010) versus the dynamic adjustment of saccade length (Liu, Reichle, & Li, 2015, 2016) indicate that the latter model provides a more accurate and parsimonious account of saccade-targeting behavior in Chinese reading. The implications of these conclusions are discussed with respect to current models of eye-movement control during reading and the necessity to explain eye movements in languages as different as Chinese versus English.
Orientation, Flow, and Clogging in a Two-Dimensional Hopper: Ellipses vs. Disks
Creators: name: Tang, Junyao
name: Behringer, Robert P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Two-dimensional (2D) hopper flow of disks has been extensively studied. Here, we investigate hopper flow of ellipses with aspect ratio $α= 2$, and we contrast that behavior to the flow of disks. We use a quasi-2D hopper containing photoelastic particles to obtain stress/force information. We simultaneously measure the particle motion and stress. We determine several properties, including discharge rates, jamming probabilities, and the number of particles in clogging arches. For both particle types, the size of the opening, $D$, relative to the size of particles, $\ell$ is an important dimensionless measure. The orientation of the ellipses plays an important role in flow rheology and clogging. The alignment of contacting ellipses enhances the probability of forming stable arches. This study offers insight for applications involving the flow of granular materials consisting of ellipsoidal shapes, and possibly other non-spherical shapes.
description: 6 pages, 11 figures
Pictures of death in the Iraqi theatrical performance
Creators: name: Aldaghlawy, Hayder Jaafar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Fine arts

description: The research deals with the concept of death as one of the important phenomena that cast a shadow over the nature and entity of the individual. Human civilizations and religions have been interested in its two parts of heavenly and positivism, and the perception of it has become clear, each according to his beliefs and behaviors. With the development of human thought, currents and schools began to appear in various sciences by studying that phenomenon, especially after the outbreak of the World War and its consequences in human life at all levels, especially social and economic, and given the privacy that theater enjoys in terms of communication and reception, this study came to shed light on the phenomenon of death. This study included the introduction to the research in which the two researchers presented the research problem, its importance and its goal. Then the theoretical framework that dealt with a theoretical foundation for the research included two topics: death in ancient civilizations and religions, and the second: death in the world stage. After the analysis, the two researchers came up with a set of results, including: The show raised the ire of some specialists by daring to break the taboo barrier and smash the idea of the sacred. There were many images of death in the show, sometimes between bombings, and at other times between kidnapping and murder. I added some symbols with embedded images of death, including the cloak.
Chern slopes of surfaces of general type in positive characteristic
Creators: name: Codorniu, Rodrigo
name: Urzúa, Giancarlo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Let $\mathbb{K}$ be an algebraically closed field of characteristic $p>0$, and let $C$ be a nonsingular projective curve over $\mathbb{K}$. We prove that for any real number $x \geq 2$, there are minimal surfaces of general type $X$ over $\mathbb{K}$ such that a) $c_1^2(X)>0, c_2(X)>0$, b) $π_1^{\text{ét}}(X) \simeq π_1^{\text{ét}}(C)$, c) and $c_1^2(X)/c_2(X)$ is arbitrarily close to $x$. In particular, we show density of Chern slopes in the pathological Bogomolov-Miyaoka-Yau interval $]3,\infty[$ for any given $p$. Moreover, we prove that for $C=\mathbb{P}^1$ there exist surfaces $X$ as above with $H^1(X,\mathcal{O}_X)=0$, this is, with Picard scheme equal to a reduced point. In this way, we show that even surfaces with reduced Picard scheme are densely persistent in $[2,\infty[$ for any given $p$.
One session yoga for short-term anxiety relief
Creators: name: Stark, Claire
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Both yoga and mindfulness have been studied as treatments for anxiety. However, few studies have explored the effects of one session of yoga on short-term anxiety relief. In the current study, it was hypothesized that one session of yoga would lead to a decrease in state anxiety and that yoga taught with an emphasis on mindfulness would yield significantly larger decreases in state anxiety compared to yoga taught without a mindfulness component. Furthermore, it was hypothesized that high levels of anxiety sensitivity and experiential avoidance would result in smaller decreases in state anxiety, while high levels of distress tolerance would result in larger decreases in state anxiety. In a sample of 79 participants, results from a two-way ANOVA demonstrated a significant main effect of time on anxiety, F (1, 79) = 200.36, p < .001). There was no significant interaction between time and condition, F (1, 79) = .19, p = .665). Additionally, a positive linear relationship was found between anxiety sensitivity and change in state anxiety (β = .31, p < .01). Results suggest that one session of yoga could potentially be an effective intervention for short-term anxiety, though more research is needed before definitive conclusions can be drawn. Future directions and limitations will be discussed.
Time-resolved four-wave-mixing spectroscopy for inner-valence transitions
Creators: name: Ding, Thomas
name: Ott, Christian
name: Kaldun, Andreas
name: Blättermann, Alexander
name: Meyer, Kristina
name: Stooß, Veit
name: Rebholz, Marc
name: Birk, Paul
name: Hartmann, Maximilian
name: Brown, Andrew
name: Van Der Hart, Hugo
name: Pfeifer, Thomas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Non-collinear four-wave mixing (FWM) techniques at near-infrared (NIR), visible, and ultraviolet frequencies have been widely used to map vibrational and electronic couplings, typically in complex molecules. However, correlations between spatially localized inner-valence transitions among different sites of a molecule in the extreme ultraviolet (XUV) spectral range have not been observed yet. As an experimental step towards this goal we perform time-resolved FWM spectroscopy with femtosecond NIR and attosecond XUV pulses. The first two pulses (XUV-NIR) coincide in time and act as coherent excitation fields, while the third pulse (NIR) acts as a probe. As a first application we show how coupling dynamics between odd- and even-parity inner-valence excited states of neon can be revealed using a two-dimensional spectral representation. Experimentally obtained results are found to be in good agreement with ab initio time-dependent R-matrix calculations providing the full description of multi-electron interactions, as well as few-level model simulations. Future applications of this method also include site-specific probing of electronic processes in molecules.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures
It's Not Easy Being Green: Access to Sustainable Urban Infrastructure and Distributive Justice in Low-Income and Minority-Concentrated Communities
Creators: name: Carter, Jules
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: In urban environments, low-income and minority-concentrated neighborhoods are more likely to
be exposed to risk and vulnerability associated with environmental exposure, depending on the
unique riskscape of a geographic region. Often, the positive externalities of sustainable urban
infrastructure are disproportionately consumed by predominately non-Hispanic white
neighborhoods with moderate to high median incomes. This project is an analysis of the access
that residents in The Research Triangle region have to public sustainable urban infrastructure and
amenities across various measures of race and class, including proportion of Black residents,
proportion of Hispanic residents, median household income, educational attainment, and the
proportion of households receiving public assistance income. Quantitative analyses were
conducted at the census block group level, and it was hypothesized that block groups with a
higher proportion of Black residents, a higher proportion of Hispanic residents, lower median
household income, a lower proportion of residents that have received post-secondary education,
and a higher proportion of residents receiving public assistance income are likely to have a
greater average distance from the block group centroid to the 10 closest amenities. A multiple
regression analysis revealed that in a given block group a higher proportion of Black residents, a
higher proportion of Hispanic residents, and a lower proportion of residents having received a
post-secondary education were predictive of a higher average distance to sustainable amenities at
a statistically significant level.
Genetic Diversity and DNA Fingerprint of Cassava (Manihot esculenta Crantz.) Using SSR Markers
Creators: name: Suphawadee   Ngorian
Publisher: name: Department of Agriculture
Year: 2022
Subjects: Manihot esculenta
SSR marker
genetic diversity
DNA fingerprint

description: Thai Agricultural Research Journal, 40, 3, 251-264
Can LEGO Predict Couples' Closeness and Relationship Behaviors Over Time?
Creators: name: HARP Lab
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This registration involves the preregistration of new study hypotheses to be tested using data from parent project DRRAW I (see osf.io/ekv6x).
The Evaluation of Total Soluble Solid on Sugar cane Stalk using Near Infrared Spectroscopy Hyperspectral Imaging Technique
Creators: name: Jirawat Chiatrakul
Publisher: name: Department of Agriculture
Year: 2022
Subjects: total soluble solid
sugar cane stalk
near infrared spectroscopy hyperspectral imaging technique

description: Thai Agricultural Research Journal, 40, 3, 276-287
U.S. Corporate Accountability for Human Rights Abuses Abroad: A Case Study of Ford Motor Company in Argentina
Creators: name: Abrecht, Olivia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Ford Motor Company has been hailed as a company that “transformed the course of history.”  It has been described as an “inextricable part of the social, economic, and cultural heritage of many nations.” Its founder, Henry Ford, has been referred to as a heroic “industrial superman” that “[typifies] American civilization and genius.”  The innovation of the moving assembly line revolutionized global manufacturing and the Model T “put America on wheels.”  Henry Ford began building Ford Motor Company into an international empire only a year after its founding and today the company has subsidiaries on six different continents. Histories of Ford Motor Company often treat inconvenient truths that tarnish this history as externalities irrelevant to Ford’s legacy. This thesis hopes to expand our understanding of Ford Motor Company’s history beyond the borders of the United States and to incorporate the experience of workers at Ford plants abroad, who have experienced a different side of the company’s history. Ford’s history in Argentina is a dramatic case in point. Since 1976, in the minds of millions of Argentine citizens, the Ford Motor Company has been associated with terror, kidnapping, and murder.
Correlation Analysis among Chemical Properties, Viscosity Properties and Isoamylase Activities of Waxy Corn Flours
Creators: name: Theerawut Wongwarat
Publisher: name: Department of Agriculture
Year: 2022
Subjects: waxy Corns
Pearson correlation coefficient
chemical properties
viscosity properties
Isoamylase activities

description: Thai Agricultural Research Journal, 40, 3, 288-298
Fertilizer Suitable, Germination Stimulation of Cocklebur Seeds and Seedling Materials for Cocklebur Sprouts Production
Creators: name: Puttinun Jarruwat
Publisher: name: Department of Agriculture
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cocklebur
rate of fertilizer
germination stimulation
growing media

description: Thai Agricultural Research Journal, 40, 3, 299-306