cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Improving Housing Instability to Reduce Adverse Health Outcomes for Honorably Discharged Veterans and Their Families Through the Creation of an Accountable Care Community in  Cumberland County, North Carolina
Creators: name: Heindel, Gregory
name: Berdiel, Emilio
name: Merritt, Matthew
name: Fernando, Chamara
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Housing instability is a well-recognized social determinant of health (SDOH). Housing costs can force individuals to spend large portions of income on housing and lead to issues paying rent, mortgages, overcrowding, and moving frequently and is associated with negative health outcomes. Veterans are at a higher risk of housing instability than the general population. In addition, veterans are overrepresented in the population within Cumberland County. An Accountable Care Community will be established in Cumberland County, to address the SDOH of economic instability which exacerbates housing instability. This will be accomplished through housing support initiatives, as well as mental, physical, and rehabilitative services. This includes direct subsidies to alleviate housing costs and a case management referral program. The ACC partners include, but are not limited to, the Department of Public Health, the Cumberland County Veteran Services Office, Fayetteville City Council, Salvation Army Emergency Shelters, Fayetteville Housing Authority and VA Healthcare Providers.
Bicycle Parking in Chapel Hill, North Carolina: Where It's At and Where It's Going
Creators: name: Powell, Eli
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Chapel Hill, North Carolina, is a bustling college town with a great number of bicyclists, yet bicycle parking is a largely neglected topic by both its Code of Ordinances and its transportation planning staff. This project seeks to change that. Over six months in 2020, I collected a fieldwork inventory of almost all bicycle parking and maintenance 
resources within Town limits. I published this inventory as a public-facing interactive map and used it internally to perform a site-level analysis of adherence to the Town’s bicycle parking capacity requirements and design guidelines. I then evaluated the results of this analysis and consulted bicycle parking requirements in five United States municipalities similar to Chapel Hill to formulate recommendations to Town planning staff on improving their own codified bicycle parking requirements. My findings suggest that at least half of all sites in Chapel Hill have been violating bicycle parking capacity requirements and that almost all of them have been violating design guidelines, with the most common offense being an unsatisfactory amount of long-term parking. With my assistance, the Town of Chapel Hill Planning Department will use this dataset to amend bicycle parking capacity requirements and design guidelines in 
the Town’s Land Use Management Ordinance. The dataset will also be useful to all Chapel Hill bicyclists for more reliably locating bicycle parking at their destinations, making the Town of Chapel Hill a more bicycle-friendly place to live, work, and visit.
(4220) Elizabeth [Hepworth]
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
MPEC 2023-Q147 : 2023 QT6
Creators: name: Minor Planet Center Staff
Publisher: name: The Minor Planet Center
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Small Solar System bodies
valueUri: http://astrothesaurus.org/uat/1469
subject: 2023 QT6

description: The Minor Planet Electronic Circulars contain information on unusual minor planets, routine data on comets and natural satellites, and occasional editorial announcements.  They are published on behalf of Division F of the International Astronomical Union by the Minor Planet Center, Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory, Cambridge, MA 02138, U.S.A.
Determinants of Rural Water Point Functionality: But What is Functionality?
Creators: name: McManus, Catherine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Much of the drinking water around the world, especially in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, is provided through the use of water points, communal collection points shared by a community or neighborhood. However, these water points are frequently out of operation, and their users are forced to rely on water sources of lower quality, likely contributing to the high global disease burden associated with diarrheal disease. This study analyzes a survey of more than 3,700 water points in rural areas of twelve countries in Sub-Saharan Africa to identify community or management determinants of functionality of the water point. While the typical definition of functionality is binary, focusing mainly on operationality, this study considers operationality as well as the frequency and duration of breakdowns as part of the conceptualization of functionality. Through the use of regression analysis and structural equation modeling, this study identifies factors with the largest effects on functionality. Structural equation modeling, which allows for the identification of causal pathways, improving on the associations determined by regression analysis, also allows for the identification of factors which do not have direct effects on, but nevertheless have large total effects on, the functionality of rural water points. These factors, which include the involvement of a paid, trained caretaker in the management of a rural water point, demonstrate that there are important causal pathways by which water point managers can seek to improve the functionality of their rural water point. Other significant factors include continuous service provision, regular fee collection by a committee, and technical capacity consisting of external support response, and an operations and maintenance plan. Water point managers and water committees should seek to incorporate these factors in the operation of their rural water point; improving the functionality of rural water points worldwide will be a major determinant in the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of a safely managed drinking water source for all worldwide.
(4222) William Miller
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
INCREASING TRANSPORTATION ACCESS IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NC THROUGH AN ACCOUNTABLE CARE COMMUNITY TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF LOW-INCOME URBAN AND RURAL RESIDENTS
Creators: name: Fisher, Anna
name: Carrington, Makala
name: Kuykendall, Mikayla
name: Yates, Steven
name: Shubrook, Casey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: The Cumberland County Mobile Food Market (MFM) will be an Accountable Care Community (ACC) that focuses on increasing transportation access for low-income urban and rural residents in Cumberland County (CC). The MFM is an efficient and cost-effective strategy to distribute healthy, affordable food directly to residents in CC. The proposed program includes several innovative components that acknowledge the key issues of food insecurity and address lack of access to foods for residents of CC as a result of transportation limitations. This ACC will partner with the Cumberland County Department of Social Services (CCDSS) as the backbone organization for the MFM. Implementing the MFM will improve transportation access within Cumberland and has the potential to improve healthy food access and reduce rates of food insecurity within low-income urban and rural communities.
Measuring Phased-Array Antenna Beampatterns with High Dynamic Range for the Murchison Widefield Array using 137 MHz ORBCOMM Satellites
Creators: name: Neben, A. R.
name: Bradley, R. F.
name: Hewitt, J. N.
name: Bernardi, G.
name: Bowman, J. D.
name: Briggs, F.
name: Cappallo, R. J.
name: Deshpande, A. A.
name: Goeke, R.
name: Greenhill, L. J.
name: Hazelton, B. J.
name: Johnston-Hollitt, M.
name: Kaplan, D. L.
name: Lonsdale, C. J.
name: McWhirter, S. R.
name: Mitchell, D. A.
name: Morales, M. F.
name: Morgan, E.
name: Oberoi, D.
name: Ord, S. M.
name: Prabu, T.
name: Shankar, N. Udaya
name: Srivani, K. S.
name: Subrahmanyan, R.
name: Tingay, S. J.
name: Wayth, R. B.
name: Webster, R. L.
name: Williams, A.
name: Williams, C. L.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Detection of the fluctuations in 21 cm line emission from neutral hydrogen during the Epoch of Reionization in thousand hour integrations poses stringent requirements on calibration and image quality, both of which necessitate accurate primary beam models. The Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) uses phased array antenna elements which maximize collecting area at the cost of complexity. To quantify their performance, we have developed a novel beam measurement system using the 137 MHz ORBCOMM satellite constellation and a reference dipole antenna. Using power ratio measurements, we measure the {\it in situ} beampattern of the MWA antenna tile relative to that of the reference antenna, canceling the variation of satellite flux or polarization with time. We employ angular averaging to mitigate multipath effects (ground scattering), and assess environmental systematics with a null experiment in which the MWA tile is replaced with a second reference dipole. We achieve beam measurements over 30 dB dynamic range in beam sensitivity over a large field of view (65\% of the visible sky), far wider and deeper than drift scans through astronomical sources allow. We verify an analytic model of the MWA tile at this frequency within a few percent statistical scatter within the full width at half maximum. Towards the edges of the main lobe and in the sidelobes, we measure tens of percent systematic deviations. We compare these errors with those expected from known beamforming errors.
description: 22 pages, 8 figures. Accepted for publication in Radio Science
(4217) Thomas Headland
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Quantum Cohomology and Quantum Hydrodynamics from Supersymmetric Quiver Gauge Theories
Creators: name: Bonelli, Giulio
name: Sciarappa, Antonio
name: Tanzini, Alessandro
name: Vasko, Petr
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study the connection between N = 2 supersymmetric gauge theories, quantum cohomology and quantum integrable systems of hydrodynamic type. We consider gauge theories on ALE spaces of A and D-type and discuss how they describe the quantum cohomology of the corresponding Nakajima's quiver varieties. We also discuss how the exact evaluation of local BPS observables in the gauge theory can be used to calculate the spectrum of quantum Hamiltonians of spin Calogero integrable systems and spin Intermediate Long Wave hydrodynamics. This is explicitly obtained by a Bethe Ansatz Equation provided by the quiver gauge theory in terms of its adjacency matrix.
description: 70 pages, 2 figures. Invited contribution to Journal of Geometry and Physics, special issue "Instanton Counting: Moduli Spaces, Representation Theory and Integrable Systems"
INTEGRATING COMPUTER-ASSISTED INSTRUCTION IN QUANTITATIVE REASONING IN MIDDLE BASIC EDUCATION: AN IMPERATIVE TO REPOSITIONING EDUCATION FOR THE 4TH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION
Creators: name: Eneze,, Blessing Nkeiruka
name: Eziokwu,, Patricia Nkiruka
name: Ugwoke,, Mark E
name: Eloanyi,, Blessing Chekwube
Publisher: name: GO JOURNAL
Year: 2024
Subjects: Computer-assisted instruction, middle basic pupils, quantitative reasoning, 4th industrial revolution

description: As the Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) ushers in rapid technological advancements, the ability of pupils to engage in self-directed learning becomes increasingly crucial. To address the evolving educational landscape, this study investigates the impact of Computer Assisted Instruction (CAI) on enhancing the quantitative reasoning skills of middle school pupils. CAI is a method that leverages computers for instruction, progress tracking, and feedback. The research, conducted in the Enugu Education Zone of Enugu State, employed a quasi-experimental design, targeting 8924 middle basic two pupils across 98 schools during the 2019/2020 academic session. A sample of 490 pupils was selected using stratified, purposive, and simple random sampling techniques. The study utilized the Quantitative Reasoning Achievement Test (QRAT), a validated 40-item multiple-choice test with a reliability coefficient of 0.77 (KR-20). Data were analyzed using mean, standard deviation, and Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) at a 0.05 significance level. The findings indicate that pupils taught using CAI outperformed those taught through traditional methods. The study recommends the uniform implementation of CAI across schools in the Enugu Education Zone to standardize learning outcomes and ensure equitable instruction in quantitative reasoning amid the 4IR
Topological 'Luttinger' invariants protected by non-symmorphic symmetry in semimetals
Creators: name: Parameswaran, S. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Luttinger's theorem is a fundamental result in the theory of interacting Fermi systems: it states that the volume inside the Fermi surface is left invariant by interactions, if the number of particles is held fixed. Although this is traditionally justified using perturbation theory, it can be viewed as arising from a momentum balance argument that examines the response of the ground state to the insertion of a single flux quantum [M. Oshikawa, Phys. Rev. Lett. 84, 3370 (2000)]. This reveals that the Fermi sea volume is a topologically protected quantity. Extending this approach, I show that spinless or spin-rotation-preserving fermionic systems in non-symmorphic crystals possess generalized topological 'Luttinger invariants' that can be nonzero even in cases where the Fermi sea volume vanishes. A nonzero Luttinger invariant then forces energy bands to touch, leading to semimetals whose gaplessness is thus rooted in topology; opening a gap without symmetry breaking automatically triggers fractionalization. The existence of these invariants is linked to the inability of non-symmorphic crystals to host band insulating ground states except at special fillings. I exemplify the use of these new invariants by showing that they distinguish various classes of two- and three-dimensional semimetals.
description: 7 pages, 2 figures. v3 has an updated discussion, corrected typos, and new figures
Unfolding the color code
Creators: name: Kubica, Aleksander
name: Yoshida, Beni
name: Pastawski, Fernando
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The topological color code and the toric code are two leading candidates for realizing fault-tolerant quantum computation. Here we show that the color code on a $d$-dimensional closed manifold is equivalent to multiple decoupled copies of the $d$-dimensional toric code up to local unitary transformations and adding or removing ancilla qubits. Our result not only generalizes the proven equivalence for $d=2$, but also provides an explicit recipe of how to decouple independent components of the color code, highlighting the importance of colorability in the construction of the code. Moreover, for the $d$-dimensional color code with $d+1$ boundaries of $d+1$ distinct colors, we find that the code is equivalent to multiple copies of the $d$-dimensional toric code which are attached along a $(d-1)$-dimensional boundary. In particular, for $d=2$, we show that the (triangular) color code with boundaries is equivalent to the (folded) toric code with boundaries. We also find that the $d$-dimensional toric code admits logical non-Pauli gates from the $d$-th level of the Clifford hierarchy, and thus saturates the bound by Bravyi and König. In particular, we show that the $d$-qubit control-$Z$ logical gate can be fault-tolerantly implemented on the stack of $d$ copies of the toric code by a local unitary transformation.
description: 46 pages, 15 figures
INCREASING TRANSPORTATION ACCESS IN CUMBERLAND COUNTY, NC THROUGH AN ACCOUNTABLE CARE COMMUNITY TO IMPROVE THE HEALTH OF LOW-INCOME URBAN AND RURAL RESIDENTS
Creators: name: Yates, Steven
name: Carrington, Makala
name: Kuykendall, Mikayla
name: Shubrook, Casey
name: Fisher, Anna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: The Cumberland County Mobile Food Market (MFM) will be an Accountable Care Community (ACC) that focuses on increasing transportation access for low-income urban and rural residents in Cumberland County (CC). The MFM is an efficient and cost-effective strategy to distribute healthy, affordable food directly to residents in CC. The proposed program includes several innovative components that acknowledge the key issues of food insecurity and address lack of access to foods for residents of CC as a result of transportation limitations. This ACC will partner with the Cumberland County Department of Social Services (CCDSS) as the backbone organization for the MFM. Implementing the MFM will improve transportation access within Cumberland and has the potential to improve healthy food access and reduce rates of food insecurity within low-income urban and rural communities.
Green Infrastructure Site Suitability Analysis for Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas
Creators: name: Evans, Kathryn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Many cities are currently searching for sustainable solutions to stormwater flooding, climate change, and a multitude of associated negative impacts like heat stress and poor water quality. Green infrastructure has been recommended by the U.S. EPA as a potential solution to these problems, as it recreates natural drainage patterns and returns land previously dominated by pavement and concrete back to a healthy ecosystem. Green infrastructure site suitability analyses 
are a common form of land suitability analysis that utilize a range of criteria to assess potential sites for green infrastructure. The Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas (UGWC) is in the early stages of developing a green infrastructure program. This study employed a site suitability analysis methodology to determine the most suitable locations for green infrastructure within Wyandotte County. Sixteen criteria were derived from analysis of ten
case studies and direct recommendations from staff at the UGWC to assess sites for possible resulting benefits or constraints limiting the success of green infrastructure implementation. GIS technology was used to map the intersections of these criteria and produce suitability 
recommendations through five scenarios: Equal Weight, Case Study, Flooding, Connectivity, and Feasibility. The sites that were ranked most suitable for green infrastructure can be classified into six recommended regions: Jersey Creek/Downtown Kansas City, Turkey Creek, Industrial 
Kansas River Region, South Park, Wyandotte County Lake Park, and Welborn Residential Area. The UGWC will use the results of this study to guide the project implementation, policymaking, and community engagement efforts of their green infrastructure program.
Recursion relations for multi-gluon off-shell amplitudes on the light-front and Wilson lines
Creators: name: Cruz-Santiago, C.
name: Kotko, P.
name: Stasto, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We analyze the off-shell scattering amplitudes in the framework of the light-front perturbation theory. It is shown that the previously derived recursion relation between tree level off-shell amplitudes in this formalism actually resums whole classes of graphs into a Wilson line. More precisely, we establish a correspondence between the light-front methods for the computation of the off-shell amplitudes and the approach which makes use of the matrix elements of straight infinite Wilson lines, which are manifestly gauge invariant objects. Furthermore, since it is needed to explicitly verify the gauge invariance of light-front amplitudes, it is demonstrated that the Ward identities in this framework need additional instantaneous terms in the light-front graphs.
description: 26 pages, a few figures
Xeronycteris vieirai Gregorin & Ditchfield 2005
Creators: name: Wilson, Don E.
name: Mittermeier, Russell A.
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019
Subjects: Biodiversity
Taxonomy
Animalia
Chordata
Mammalia
Chiroptera
Phyllostomidae
Xeronycteris
Xeronycteris vieirai

description: 102. Vieira’s Long-tongued Bat Xeronycteris vieirai French: Lonchophylle de Vieira / German: Vieira-Langzungenfledermaus / Spanish: Xeronicterio de Vieira Other common names: Vieira's Flower Bat Taxonomy. Xeronycteris vieirai Gregorin & Ditchfield, 2005, “Fazenda Espirito Santo, Municipio de Soledade, state of Paraiba, Brazil (07°05’S, 36°21'W).” This species is monotypic. Distribution. NE & E Brazil, from Rio Grande do Norte S to N Minas Gerais, apparently mostly restricted to Caatinga Tropical Dry Forest ecoregion. Descriptive notes. Tail 6-6-8 mm, ear 10-12. 6 mm, hindfoot 10-8-13 mm, forearm 35-4-39-2 mm; weight 8-14 g (males) and 9-16 g (females). No other measurements are available. Vieira’s Long-tongued Bat is a medium-sized nectar specialist, with the most reduced dentition in the entire subfamily Lonchophyllinae. It is known from only few specimens. Dental formulais12/2,C1/1,P 2/3, M 3/3 (x2) = 34, although there is a report on a specimen with an additional (anterior) upper premolar. Habitat. Mainly xeric shrubland and thorn forest with annual precipitation of 300-500 mm and rain falling only during short rainy season in April-June. Vieira’s Longtongued Bat might venture occasionally into other semiarid habitats close to caatinga (e.g. cerrado). Food and Feeding. Dentition and limited observations indicate that Vieira’s Longtongued Bat is a rather strict nectarivore that visits flowers of columnar cacti (Pulosocereus pachycladus, Cactaceae), terrestrial bromeliads (Encholirium spectabile, Bromeliaceae), trees (Pseudobombax sp., Malvaceae), and herbs (Dicliptera sericea, Acanthaceae). Breeding. Reproduction of Vieira’s Long-tongued Bat seems to peak in dry season (June-December), although lactating females were observed in March. Activity patterns. Activity of Vieira’s Long-tongued Bats starts quickly after nightfall, perhaps related to temporal patterns of nectar production. Movements, Home range and Social organization. No information. Status and Conservation. Classified as Data Deficient on The IUCN Red List. The Caatinga ecoregion, which is core habitat of Vieira’s Long-tongued Bat, is under anthropogenic pressure from slash-and-burn agriculture, charcoal production, and livestock grazing. Bibliography. Cordero-Schmidt et al. (2017), Gomes et al. (2018), Gregorin & Ditchfield (2005), Nogueira, Gregorin & Peracchi (2014).
description: Published as part of Don E. Wilson & Russell A. Mittermeier, 2019, Phyllostomidae, pp. 444-583 in Handbook of the Mammals of the World – Volume 9 Bats, Barcelona :Lynx Edicions on page 533, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.6458594
(4219) Luke Hepworth
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
title: Technology Made Legible: A Cultural Study of Software as a Form of Writing in the Theories and Practices of Software Engineering
Creators: name: Frabetti, Federica
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of LOndon
Year: 2009

description: My dissertation proposes an analytical framework for the cultural understanding of the group of technologies commonly referred to as 'new' or 'digital'. I aim at dispelling what the philosopher Bernard Stiegler calls the 'deep opacity' that still surrounds new technologies, and that constitutes one of the main obstacles in their conceptualization today. I argue that such a critical intervention is essential if we are to take new technologies seriously, and if we are to engage with them on both the cultural and the political level. I understand new technologies as technologies based on software. I therefore suggest that a complex understanding of technologies, and of their role in contemporary culture and society, requires, as a preliminary step, an investigation of how software works. This involves going beyond studying the intertwined processes of its production, reception and consumption - processes that typically constitute the focus of media and cultural studies. Instead, I propose a way of accessing the ever present but allegedly invisible codes and languages that constitute software. I thus reformulate the problem of understanding software-based technologies as a problem of making software legible. I build my analysis on the concept of software advanced by Software Engineering, a technical discipline born in the late 1960s that defines software development as an advanced writing technique and software as a text. This conception of software enables me to analyse it through a number of reading strategies. I draw on the philosophical framework of deconstruction as formulated by Jacques Derrida in order to identify the conceptual structures underlying software and hence 'demystify' the opacity of new technologies. Ultimately, I argue that a deconstructive reading of software enables us to recognize the constitutive, if unacknowledged, role of technology in the formation of both the human and academic knowledge. This reading leads to a self-reflexive interrogation of the media and cultural studies' approach to technology and enhances our capacity to engage with new technologies without separating our cultural understanding from our political practices.
On 3D water waves system above a flat bottom
Creators: name: Wang, Xuecheng
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: As a starting point of studying the long time behavior of the $3D$ water waves system in the flat bottom setting, in this paper, we try to improve the understanding of the Dirichlet-Neumann operator in this setting. As an application, we study the $3D$ gravity waves system and derive a new $L^2-L^\infty$ type energy estimate, which has a good structure in the $L^\infty-$type space. In our second paper, base on the results we obtained in this paper, we prove the global regularity of the $3D$ gravity waves system for suitably small initial data.
description: Revised version
A Sociophysonomic Model of Gentrification: Predicting Neighborhood Level Demographic Change in Birmingham, AL Using Social, Physical, and Economic Indicators
Creators: name: Tindal, Matthew
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: The many criteria that can increase the likelihood of a neighborhood to gentrify have been well researched and documented. Much of the relevant academic literature has focused on socioeconomic factors as the primary cause of gentrification, with a smaller but growing body of work that has stressed instead the historical role of the built environment in contemporary patterns of neighborhood level demographic change. This study focuses not on the importance of individual causal mechanisms, but rather on the compounding predictive ability that numerous gentrification susceptibility factors can have when layered atop a single neighborhood. The study proposes a hybrid model of gentrification under which such demographic shifts are primarily caused by the interplay between racist housing policies and disruptive redevelopment practices within the built environment. Most socioecological models of gentrification have been tested only in the larger urban areas of the United States. This study’s adaptation of the model will be applied to Birmingham, Alabama in order to test its internal validity and its applicability to mid-size American cities.
Sensitive Data Toolkit for Researchers Part 3: Research Data Management Language for Informed Consent
Creators: name: Sensitive Data Expert Group
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The Sensitive Data Expert Group of the Portage Network has create a suite of tools for Canadian researchers. These tools have been created to help researchers understand how research data is involved in the research ethics process, and to address the evolution of research data management (RDM) practices such as data sharing and deposit in the context of existing research ethics frameworks. This tool, Research Data Management Language for Informed Consent, is intended to assist researchers working with sensitive data in the development of tailored, deposit-friendly language for ethics approval and informed consent.
Evaluating the Framing of Safety, Equity, and Policing: Responses to the Murder of George Floyd, Black Lives Matter, and Calls to Defund the Police
Creators: name: Brown, Sarah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: This project aimed to construct a narrative to explore how the framing of safety, equity, and policing is changing in the active transportation profession following the murder of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 by Minneapolis Police Department officer Derek Chauvin. This study uses relational content analysis to study the nuances of how organizational leadership is talking about safety, equity, and policing in response to his death and the following calls for Black Lives Matter and defunding the police. Ten active transportation organizations studied had racial equity-imbued rhetoric in response to this intense and emotional time in U.S. history. Findings show that the definition of safety in transportation is expanding to include safety from police. Additionally, mentions of condemning acts of racism, human rights, alternatives to policing, and addressing ways to decrease interactions with police in transportation are explored. Overall, there is strong support for questioning the reliance on the “Es” framework, specifically Enforcement, and looking toward Safe Systems approaches within transportation. This project hopes to contribute to the conversation around the definition of safety, the use of police, and the “Es" framework in active transportation policies, programs, and research.
How Has COVID-19 Affected Telework Attitudes and Behaviors?
Creators: name: Snelgrove, Christian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Any change is difficult, but massive disruptions such as COVID-19 often make people see their daily habits in a new light. Transportation systems and habits have been acutely affected by the pandemic, and one significant way this disruption has manifested is in a large shift from traditional commuting to telework. The question is how long these changes will last, if at all. Using a cross-sectional attitudinal survey, my paper examines how COVID-19 has affected telework attitudes and behaviors. I asked respondents to report their pre-COVID-19 and current telework attitudes and behavior, as well as different socioeconomic and attitudinal indicators to further stratify the data. My data indicate a sizeable shift in workers’ desired commuting behavior. My respondents largely had positive experiences with telework, resulting in them wanting to telework most of the time moving forward. Commute-mode preferences shifted as well, with many respondents who previously preferred to drive alone now wishing to primarily telework. These results suggest a significant change in commuting attitudes that should be harnessed. Many employers have made large investments in telework technology and training due to the pandemic. This serves as an opportunity to offer workers more choice, creating a working environment better attuned to their needs.
Model trained on 11th century manuscripts to produce expanded transcription (Latin).
Creators: name: Michael Schonhardt
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: kraken_pytorch

description: This model has been trained as part of the ongoing edition project Burchards Dekret Digital (www.burchards-dekret-digital.de), funded by the Academy of Sciences and Literature Mainz. It is the project's first high-quality model specifically designed to produce a normalized transcription. The model was trained on three 11th-century manuscripts that can be traced to the episcopal scriptorium in Worms: Bamberg, SB, Msc.Can.6 (https://mdz-nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:12-bsb00140701-0), Frankfurt, UB, Ms. Barth. 50 (https://sammlungen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/msma/urn/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:2-12488) and Vatican, BAV, Pal.lat.585 (https://digi.vatlib.it/mss/detail/Pal.lat.585). However, it also works well as a base model for later medieval scripts.
The model was trained by Dr. Michael Schonhardt (Universität Kassel, https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2750-1900). Transcriptions were provided and proofread by Helena Geitz, Daniel Gneckow, Dr. Andreas Grote, Prof. Dr. Lotte Kéry, Dr. Birgit Kynast, Dr. Hans-Christian Lehner, Dr. Melanie Panse-Buchwalter, Michaela Parma, Dr. Cornelia Scherer, Dr. Michael Schonhardt and Dr. des. Elena Vanelli. The project is led by Prof. Dr. Ingrid Baumgärtner, Prof. Dr. Klaus Herbers and Prof. Dr. Ludger Körntgen.
The model was trained in 47 epochs using a learning rate of 0.0008 and a batch size of 64.
Exploration of Algorithmic Bias in Machine Learning Methods Used to Predict Vacancy Rates
Creators: name: Amandolia, Kenneth Austin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: This project brings the discussion of machine learning algorithms and the potential associated bias to planning practitioners. This is accomplished by building machine learning algorithms to predict housing vacancy rates. Our models were built on census tract data under four scenarios. These included a model built on data from the southeastern portion of the United States, rural census tracts, majority BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) census tracts, and a random set of census tracts. For each training set, we built a linear model and a support vector machine (SVM) model. The performance of these models was compared to prediction by average. Through this analysis, we will discuss how machine learning can introduce or exacerbate bias in data, how models might be useful in certain circumstances and not others, and how planners can decide what models to use within their departments, including models build by private partners. Included in our discussion will be an analysis of model performance on the Research Triangle and the Bay Area. Example results are found in Figure 1.
(4221) William Miller
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
ADDRESSING WALKABILITY TO IMPROVE THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND BUILT ENVIRONMENT TO BETTER QUALITY OF LIFE IN FAYETTEVILLE, NORTH CAROLINA
Creators: name: Lanning, Miranda
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Research shows that approximately 80% of a person’s overall health is driven by social and environmental factors and the behavior influenced by them, also known as the social determinants of health. Our work focuses on addressing walkability which falls under the scope of the neighborhood and built environment, which is the intersection of the places where people live, work, pray, and play and their health and well-being. Fayetteville North Carolina has a walkability score of 21 out of 100, which is among the lowest in the country. Walkability is defined by how easily residents can walk to and from places in the community such as from their home, work, and entertainment. There is not an adequate walking infrastructure to support the people who walk as a primary mode of transportation or exercise. The Cumberland County Community Health Needs Assessment documented that 40.1% of the community members do not engage in any physical activity or exercise during the week. Heart disease, diabetes, and other weight-related diseases are among the leading causes of death in the county. We will focus our efforts in Fayetteville, NC and within low-income areas of the city. 
	Fayetteville is the large city within Cumberland County and is an ideal location to create an accountable care community. We would like to build on existing infrastructure and systems in an equitable way to ensure low-income communities are experiencing the benefits of walkability. Our proposed policy is to switch to SmartCode Zoning which creates new guidelines for where types of buildings can be placed in the city limits while discouraging suburban sprawl. The goal of this policy is to bring the residents' daily needs closer to where they live so that they can either walk or bike to their destination over driving a car. We must include structures to ensure that we also keep the current residents from being pushed out of their communities due to these changes. Our intended impact from this policy is to reduce the negative health outcomes that are associated with walkability which are weight-related diseases.
Script Training and Social Outcomes for Persons with Aphasia: A Systematic Review
Creators: name: Kelly, Sarah
name: Sudbrink, Erika
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Aphasia is an acquired language impairment resulting from stroke, braininjury, or progressive disease that affects all four domains of language tovarying degrees: reading, writing, spoken language, and comprehension thereof. Script training is a functional treatment approach that addresses both routine and occasional communication needs by implementing intensive rehearsal of highly-personalized monologues and/or dialoguesuntil the scripts become sufficiently automatized that the person withaphasia can access these fluent “islands of automatic speech” for use in real-life discourse that is natural and personally-relevant (Youmans, Holland, Muñoz &Bourgeois, 2005). Initially developed by Holland and colleagues to facilitate verbal communication on client-selected topics for individuals whose speech production is no longer automatic, script training is based on the instance theory of automatization, which maintains that skills must bepracticed in a holistic fashion, rather than in a component-based manner. Studies have supported the use of script training for individuals with aphasia and apraxia of speech due to demonstrated improvements in natural discourse and greater communicative competence. However, the current literature inconsistently addresses the outcomes generated for persons with aphasia following script training intervention, nor has a comprehensive analysis consolidating findings on this topic been conducted to date.
Impact of JASPER and SCERTS on Social-Communication Outcomes in Children with Autism: A Systemactic Review
Creators: name: Mayhall, Laura A.
name: Donovan, Audrey A.
name: Simpson, Madison E.B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) has a prevalence of one in 54 (Maenner et al., 2020). Current study gathers data on social-communication outcomes of the JASPER and SCERTS intervention models. JASPER, or Joint Attention Symbolic Play Engagement and Regulation, naturalistically addresses social communication (Kasari Lab, 2016). SCERTS, or Social Communication, Emotional Regulation, and Transactional Support, is a model that targets the core challenges associated with ASD (Prizant et al., 2003). To the authors’ knowledge, no other reviews have been performed that look at social-communication outcomes related to JASPER and SCERTS exclusively. Recent reviews did not include outcomes related to the SCERTS intervention model (Parsons et al., 2017; French & Kennedy, 2017), or excluded specialist-interventionists (Naveed et al., 2019).
Three-Family Particle Physics Models from Global F-theory Compactifications
Creators: name: Cvetic, Mirjam
name: Klevers, Denis
name: Peña, Damián Kaloni Mayorga
name: Oehlmann, Paul-Konstantin
name: Reuter, Jonas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct four-dimensional, globally consistent F-theory models with three chiral generations, whose gauge group and matter representations coincide with those of the Minimal Supersymmetric Standard Model, the Pati-Salam Model and the Trinification Model. These models result from compactification on toric hypersurface fibrations $X$ with the choice of base $\mathbb{P}^3$. We observe that the F-theory conditions on the $G_4$-flux restrict the number of families to be at least three. We comment on the phenomenology of the models, and for Pati-Salam and Trinification models discuss the Higgsing to the Standard Model. A central point of this work is the construction of globally consistent $G_4$-flux. For this purpose we compute the vertical cohomology $H_V^{(2,2)}(X)$ in each case and solve the conditions imposed by matching the M- and F-theoretical 3D Chern-Simons terms. We explicitly check that the expressions found for the $G_4$-flux allow for a cancelation of D3-brane tadpoles. We also use the integrality of 3D Chern-Simons terms to ensure that our $G_4$-flux solutions are adequately quantized.
description: 45 pages, 6 figures, 13 tables
Hypernasality After Surgical Intervention for Velopharyngeal Insufficiency
Creators: name: Hart, Rachel
name: Costen, Emmie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Velopharyngeal insufficiency (VPI) is distinct from velopharyngeal incompetence or mislearning in that behavioral modifications cannot help children seal the velopharyngeal port. Indeed, structural limitations in the velopharyngeal mechanism can preclude normal resonance and speech production (for a review, see Ruda, Krakovitz & Rose, 2012). Children with cleft palate (CP) with or without cleft lip may demonstrate velopharyngeal insufficiency, but surgical management to correct the anatomy does not guarantee functional use of the new mechanism in speech (Witt, 1994). Surgery aims to physically permit a child to create a complete seal between the velum and posterior lateral pharyngeal walls (Perry, 2011). However, behavioral intervention (i e speech therapy) to teach a child to utilize the new mechanism may be imperative for communication success. The present systematic review sought to answer the following questions: 1. To what extent does surgical intervention to correct VPI support achievement of normal resonance in children? 2. Does surgical intervention to correct VPI lead to success across other speech outcomes? If so, how are they described?
Functional Outcomes of EMST and Mendelsohn Maneuver in Patients with Oropharyngeal Dysphagia
Creators: name: Beingolea, Monica
name: Cordell, Mason
name: Wastchak, Ashtyn
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2020

description: Recently, the use of expiratory muscle strength training (EMST) as a treatment for oropharyngeal dysphagia in both the inpatient and outpatient settings has burgeoned. This treatment has shown to improve maximal expiratory pressure and cough strength, which can protect the airway by expelling penetrated materials from the laryngeal vestibule (Palmer et al. 2018; Anand et al. 2012). However, there is limited reliable evidence on whether these outcomes translate to a safer swallow and improved functional, swallowing-related outcomes in patients with dysphagia. Regarding specific sub-populations of adults with dysphagia, there are limited numbers of articles and studies to support its use. The current research utilized a formal systematic review to evaluate published research on the functional outcomes of the Mendelsohn maneuver, a traditional means of dysphagia therapy, and juxtapose these outcomes with those of EMST in adults with oropharyngeal dysphagia.