cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
MOESM1 of Changes in FTO and IRX3 gene expression in obese and overweight male adolescents undergoing an intensive lifestyle intervention and the role of FTO genotype in this interaction
Creators: name: Saeid Doaei
name: Kalantari, Naser
name: Pantea Izadi
name: Salonurmi, Tuire
name: Alireza Mosavi Jarrahi
name: Rafieifar, Shahram
name: Ghasem Azizi Tabesh
name: Ghazaleh Rahimzadeh
name: Gholamalizadeh, Maryam
name: Goodarzi, Mark
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Marine Biology

description: Additional file 1. CONSORT 2010 Flow Diagram.
Dynamical quark loop light-by-light contribution to muon g-2 within the nonlocal chiral quark model
Creators: name: Dorokhov, A. E.
name: Radzhabov, A. E.
name: Zhevlakov, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The hadronic corrections to the muon anomalous magnetic moment a_mu, due to the gauge-invariant set of diagrams with dynamical quark loop light-by-light scattering insertions, are calculated in the framework of the nonlocal chiral quark model. These results complete calculations of all hadronic light-by-light scattering contributions to a_mu in the leading order in the 1/Nc expansion. The result for the quark loop contribution is a_mu^{HLbL,Loop}=(11.0+-0.9)*10^(-10), and the total result is a_mu^{HLbL,NxQM}=(16.8+-1.2)*10^(-10).
description: 11 pages, 5 figures, 1 table
Impact of premenopausal status at breast cancer diagnosis in women entered on the placebo-controlled NCIC CTG MA17 trial of extended adjuvant letrozole
Creators: name: Tu, D.
name: Pritchard, K. I.
name: Muss, H. B.
name: Shepherd, L. E.
name: Whelan, T.
name: Martino, S.
name: Ingle, J. N.
name: Livingston, R. B.
name: Robert, N. J.
name: Cameron, D. A.
name: Perez, E. A.
name: Davidson, N. E.
name: Chavarri-Guerra, Y.
name: Goss, P. E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: MA17 showed improved outcomes in postmenopausal women given extended letrozole (LET) after completing 5 years of adjuvant tamoxifen.
Investigating Preceptor Experiences with Cultural Intelligence in Pharmacy Education
Creators: name: Li, Anna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: By examining how preceptors experience and promote culturally relevant opportunities for students in the experiential setting, we hope to inform the development of strategies for facilitating these student learning opportunities. A convergent parallel mixed methods approach was used with a 10-item survey measuring preceptor teaching self-efficacy and interviews/focus groups to further understand cultural intelligence teaching experiences. Preceptors described various pedagogical strategies, such as case discussions, reflection, and simulation. Participants provided insight into pedagogical strategies for cultural intelligence that could promote student learning in experiential settings and help explicate curricular gaps.
MOESM1 of Association between post-procedural hyperoxia and poor functional outcome after mechanical thrombectomy for ischemic stroke: an observational study
Creators: name: López, Héctor
name: Vivas, Miguel
name: Ruiz, Rafael
name: Martínez, José
name: Navaridas, Blanca
name: Villa, Manuel
name: Lázaro, Cristina
name: Rubio, Rubén
name: Ortiz, Ana
name: Lacal, Laura
name: Diéguez, Antonio
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Computational Biology

description: Additional file 1. Appendix that describes in detail the treatment algorithm, the inclusion and exclusion criteria and the anesthetic protocol during intra-arterial thrombectomy.
Preschool for Mothers: How Universal Preschool Impacts Maternal Employment in Vermont
Creators: name: Juedemann, Gabriel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Given the burden childcare places on female labor market outcomes, reducing public childcare costs through universal preschool provision may increase the likelihood women join the workforce. Extensive research on the impact of childcare cost-reducing policies generally indicates a positive effect of cost-reducing policies on female labor force participation, but universal preschool is a relatively novel policy in the United States; as a result, there are few studies on American universal preschool’s effect on maternal employment. Building on previous work analyzing the impact of universal preschool programs in Georgia, Oklahoma, District of Columbia, Florida, and Vermont, this paper investigates how a 2014 policy to implement state-funded preschool for all three, four, and five-year-old children in Vermont affects employment of mothers of young children using difference in differences and triple differences methods and interaction of the treatment effect with covariates on American Community Survey microdata from 2012-2019. The study finds a significant 8.5 percentage point effect (12.1 percent increase from baseline) on maternal employment from universal preschool provision in Vermont using an inverse propensity weighted triple differences model, with even stronger effects on white, single, uneducated mothers not in poverty. Comparing this result and the specifics of the Vermont policy with research on policies in other states lends guidance to future policy construction.
A phase II/III randomized study to compare the efficacy and safety of rigosertib plus gemcitabine versus gemcitabine alone in patients with previously untreated metastatic pancreatic cancer
Creators: name: Cohen, D. J.
name: Jimeno, A.
name: Boles, J.
name: Cohen, S. J.
name: Coveler, L.
name: Fanta, P.
name: Gomes, C. L.
name: Phillip, P.
name: Baranda, J. C.
name: Bajaj, R.
name: Cusnir, M.
name: Messersmith, W. A.
name: Menter, A. R.
name: Aisner, D. L.
name: Cho, J. K.
name: Scott, A. J.
name: Bathini, V.
name: Granfortuna, J.
name: O'Neil, B. H.
name: Maniar, M.
name: Olowokure, O. O.
name: Wilhelm, F.
name: Rarick, M.
name: Tejani, M. A.
name: Radford, J.
name: McRee, A. J.
name: Nazemzadeh, R.
name: Berlin, J.
name: Fehrenbacher, L.
name: Ma, W. W.
name: Maguire, R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Rigosertib (ON 01910.Na), a first-in-class Ras mimetic and small-molecule inhibitor of multiple signaling pathways including polo-like kinase 1 (PLK1) and phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K), has shown efficacy in preclinical pancreatic cancer models. In this study, rigosertib was assessed in combination with gemcitabine in patients with treatment-naïve metastatic pancreatic adenocarcinoma.
MOESM2 of Association between post-procedural hyperoxia and poor functional outcome after mechanical thrombectomy for ischemic stroke: an observational study
Creators: name: López, Héctor
name: Vivas, Miguel
name: Ruiz, Rafael
name: Martínez, José
name: Navaridas, Blanca
name: Villa, Manuel
name: Lázaro, Cristina
name: Rubio, Rubén
name: Ortiz, Ana
name: Lacal, Laura
name: Diéguez, Antonio
Publisher: name: Figshare
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Neuroscience
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 2. Appendix that describes in detail the construction of the regression model.
Low carrier concentration crystals of the topological insulator Bi$_{2-x}$Sb$_{x}$Te$_{3-y}$Se$_{y}$: a magnetotransport study
Creators: name: Pan, Y.
name: Wu, D.
name: Angevaare, J. R.
name: Luigjes, H.
name: Frantzeskakis, E.
name: de Jong, N.
name: van Heumen, E.
name: Bay, T. V.
name: Zwartsenberg, B.
name: Huang, Y. K.
name: Snelder, M.
name: Brinkman, A.
name: Golden, M. S.
name: de Visser, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In 3D topological insulators achieving a genuine bulk-insulating state is an important research topic. Recently, the material system (Bi,Sb)$_{2}$(Te,Se)$_{3}$ (BSTS) has been proposed as a topological insulator with high resistivity and a low carrier concentration (Ren \textit{et al.} \cite{Ren2011}). Here we present a study to further refine the bulk-insulating properties of BSTS. We have synthesized Bi$_{2-x}$Sb${_x}$Te$_{3-y}$Se$_{y}$ single crystals with compositions around $x = 0.5$ and $y = 1.3$. Resistance and Hall effect measurements show high resistivity and record low bulk carrier density for the composition Bi$_{1.46}$Sb$_{0.54}$Te$_{1.7}$Se$_{1.3}$. The analysis of the resistance measured for crystals with different thicknesses within a parallel resistor model shows that the surface contribution to the electrical transport amounts to 97% when the sample thickness is reduced to $1 μ$m. The magnetoconductance of exfoliated BSTS nanoflakes shows 2D weak antilocalization with $α\simeq -1$ as expected for transport dominated by topological surface states.
description: 16 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in New Journal of Physics
Nasal Nitric Oxide and Lifestyle Exposure to Tobacco Smoke
Creators: name: Zou, Baiming
name: Carson, Johnny L.
name: Zhou, Haibo
name: Hazucha, Milan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Nitric oxide (NO) is a reactive gas generated by inflammatory cells and mucosal epithelial cells of the nose and paranasal sinuses and is an important mediator in nonspecific host defense against infectious agents. However, NO also mediates physiologic events such as vasodilation, mucus hypersecretion, and mucosal disruption that are associated with inflammatory conditions, and it is a regulator of ciliary beat frequency. In the present study, we hypothesized that lifestyle exposure to tobacco smoke, whether through active smoking or by inadvertent exposure to secondhand tobacco smoke, would result in higher detectable levels of nasal NO (nNO) than are found in well-documented nonsmokers.
Did a deadly pandemic create a healthier election?  An Evaluation of the Effects of COVID-19 Related Voting Reforms on Voter Turnout in the 2020 U.S Presidential Election.
Creators: name: Bacon, Katherine
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: 	The 2020 United States Presidential election saw unprecedented voter turnout. This paper examines the potential causes of this change in turnout from the 2016 presidential election. I accounted for the COVID-19 pandemic, the increase in convenience voting reforms, and the increase in political polarization. I created a dataset with total turnout numbers, Democratic vote share, Republican vote share, Black voter turnout, White voter turnout, mail-in voting numbers, voting reforms, age, COVID-19 hotspots, and competition level for each state. I conducted an analysis for 2016, 2020, and the change from 2016 to 2020. I explored how voting laws impacted total turnout, turnout by party, and turnout by race. Using regression analysis, I found limited results for the impact of voting laws on total turnout. I found significant results for positive effects on Democratic share and negative effects on Republican share. Finally, I found a differential between Black and White voters. I found significant results for voting laws positively impacting White voters and negatively impacting Black voters. Future research can explore this finding, which was contrary to my initial research and hypothesis.
Demand for Pork Meats: A Multiple-Discrete-Continuous Extreme Value Model Analysis
Creators: name: Kwon, Ohsang
name: Kwon, Ohsang
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Livestock Production/Industries
subject: discrete-continuous model
subject: pork demand
subject: scanner data

description: This study estimates household demand for fresh pork cuts using a Korean scanner data set and a multiple-discrete-continuous extreme value econometric model. The choices for purchasing cuts and purchasing amounts are derived from an MDCEV utility function consistently. We estimate the own and cross price elasticities of demand, income elasticities, and the impacts of household characteristics on demands using a simulation approach. The study finds that the estimates for own price elasticities are larger than those found by a comparable reduced-form study, while those for cross price and income elasticities obtained from the two different approaches are quite similar. It is shown that the belly, the ribs, the shoulder, and the special cuts are normal while the others are inferior. The impacts of household size, age, family composition, housing type, and purchasing season on the choice of pork cuts are also estimated.
Simple inflationary models in Gauss-Bonnet brane-world cosmology
Creators: name: Okada, Nobuchika
name: Okada, Satomi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In light of the recent Planck 2015 results for the measurement of the CMB anisotropy, we study simple inflationary models in the context of the Gauss-Bonnet brane-world cosmology. The brane-world cosmological effect modifies the power spectra of scalar and tensor perturbations generated by inflation and causes a dramatic change for the inflationary predictions of the spectral index ($n_s$) and the tensor-to-scalar ratio ($r$) from those obtained in the standard cosmology. In particular, the power spectrum of tensor perturbation is suppressed due to the Gauss-Bonnet brane-world cosmological effect, which is in sharp contrast with inflationary scenario in the Randall-Sundrum brane-world cosmology where the power spectrum is enhanced. Hence, these two brane-world cosmological scenarios are distinguishable. With the dramatic change of the inflationary predictions, the inflationary scenario in the Gauss-Bonnet brane-world cosmology can be tested by more precise measurements of $n_s$ and future observations of the CMB $B$-mode polarization.
description: 18 pages, 8 figures, an updated version with Planck 2015 results. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:1407.3544
Noisy metamolecule: strong narrowing of fluorescence line
Creators: name: Andrianov, E. S.
name: Chtchelkatchev, N. M.
name: Pukhov, A. A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider metamolecule consisting of bosonic mode correlated with the two-level system: it can be, for example, plasmonic mode interacting with the quantum dot. We focus on the parameter range where all the correlations are strong and of the same order: interaction between bosonic mode correlated with the two-level system, external coherent drive and dissipation. Quantum Monte-Carlo simulations show a fluorescence of this system at dissipation larger than the driving amplitude and strong (by the order of magnitude) narrowing of its spectral line. This effect may be related to kind of a quantum stochastic resonance. We show that the fluorescence corresponds to finite domain over the coherent drive with sharp lower threshold and there is splitting of the Wigner function.
description: 4+1 pages, 4 figures
Additional file 1 of Modeling and optimizing in vitro percentage and speed callus induction of carrot via Multilayer Perceptron-Single point discrete GA and radial basis function
Creators: name: Fallah Ziarani, Masoumeh
name: Tohidfar, Masoud
name: Navvabi, Mohammad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1. Row data in MS with 8 treatment by using 4 explants at 2 times.
title: Resonancias del Quijote en el siglo XXI 7
Creators: name: Tecnológico de Monterrey
Publisher: name: Tecnológico de Monterrey
publisherIdentifier: https://ror.org/03ayjn504
publisherIdentifierScheme: ROR
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 6.2
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: Este 2024, el programa Pasión por la Lectura, iniciativa de la Cátedra Alfonso Reyes del Tecnológico de Monterrey, ha elegido como libro del año al emblemático El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha. Con orgullo se presenta el XXVI capítulo de la segunda parte prologado por Liliana Weinberg, Consejera de la Cátedra Alfonso Reyes y por Rodrigo Esparza, profesor del Campus Puebla.
Osteoinduction of Umbilical Cord and Palate Periosteum–Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells on Poly(Lactic-Co-Glycolic) Acid Nanomicrofibers
Creators: name: Roden, Katherine S.
name: Caballero, Montserrat
name: van Aalst, John A.
name: Krochmal, Daniel J.
name: Pappa, Andrew K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The need for tissue engineered bone to treat complex craniofacial bone defects secondary to congenital anomalies, trauma, and cancer extirpation is sizeable. Traditional strategies for treatment have focused on autologous bone in younger patients and bone substitutes in older patients. However, the capacity for merging new technologies, including the creation of nano and microfiber scaffolds with advances in natal sources of stem cells, is crucial to improving our treatment options. The advantages of using smaller diameter fibers for scaffolding are two-fold: the similar fiber diameters mimic the in vivo extracellular matrix construct;, and smaller fibers also provide a dramatically increased surface area for cell-scaffold interactions. In this study, we compare the capacity for a polymer with Federal Drug Administration (FDA) approval for use in humans, poly-co-glycolytic acid (PLGA) from Delta polymer, to support osteoinduction of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) harvested from the umbilical cord (UC) and palate periosteum (PP). Proliferation of both UC- and PP-derived MSCs was improved on PLGA scaffolds. PLGA scaffolds promoted UC MSC differentiation (indicated by earlier gene expression and higher calcium deposition), but not in PP-derived MSCs. UC-derived MSCs on PLGA nano-micro-fiber scaffolds have potential clinical utility in providing solutions for craniofacial bone defects, with the added benefit of earlier availability.
How COVID-19 Changed Provisioning Habits in the North Carolina Triangle: The Move Towards Technology in How We Get Our Food
Creators: name: DeWald, Tori
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: 	In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic wreaked havoc on global society. Across the globe and in an unprecedented way, consumers had to navigate COVID-19 guidelines, store and restaurant closures, and inflation to acquire food for themselves and their dependents (Severson 2020). The height of the pandemic, during 2020 and 2021 and a series of societal lockdowns, resulted in an increase in the use of technology to acquire food, particularly in the forms of curbside pickup, grocery delivery services, meal kits, and order-ahead programs. Now, in the post-lockdown era of the pandemic, beginning in late 2021, these technology services are still being utilized at higher rates than before. This thesis sought to determine if the COVID-19 pandemic changed food provisioning strategies for consumers in the Central Piedmont region of North Carolina and if so, how. For the context of this thesis, provisioners can be understood as consumers, or someone who supplies food to themselves and/or others, specifically from the Triangle region of North Carolina. Providers are those who work in the production, processing, manufacturing, or distribution of food to provisioners in the Triangle region of North Carolina. Based on provisioner survey data from 54 participants, 4 provider interviews, and 4 months of field notes, this thesis argues that the COVID-19 pandemic has created lasting cultural change in provisioning practices that will go beyond the end of the pandemic and increase food system resilience in preparation for future disasters.
Unbounded energies of debris from head-on particle collisions near black holes
Creators: name: Zaslavskii, O. B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: If two particles move toward a black hole and collide near the horizon, the energy E_{c.m.} in the centre of mass can grow unbounded. This is a so-called Bañados-Silk-West (BSW) effect. One of problems creating obstacles to the possibility of its observation consists in that individual energy E of a fragment at infinity remains finite because of redshift. We show that in the case of head-on collision, debris may have unbounded energy E. An essential ingredient of this scenario is a particle moving away from a black hole in the near-horizon region. It can appear due to precedent collision that implies multiple scattering.
description: 8 pages. Final version
Additional file 2 of Modeling and optimizing in vitro percentage and speed callus induction of carrot via Multilayer Perceptron-Single point discrete GA and radial basis function
Creators: name: Fallah Ziarani, Masoumeh
name: Tohidfar, Masoud
name: Navvabi, Mohammad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2. Row data in 4xMS with 8 treatment by using 4 explants at 2 times.
MDMA Administration Attenuates Hippocampal Il- β Immunoreactivity and Subsequent Stress-Enhanced Fear Learning
Creators: name: Adams, Lydia
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Our laboratory has used an animal model of PTSD, known as stress-enhanced fear learning (SEFL), to investigate the disorder's maladaptive changes in immune status. We have found that severe stress increases pro-inflammatory cytokine immunoreactivity in the hippocampus. However, recent clinical trials have demonstrated that MDMA-assisted psychotherapy may be an effective treatment for PTSD. Interestingly, MDMA is also shown to have an immunosuppressive effect in pre-clinical and clinical studies. We hypothesize that this effect may attenuate SEFL, and our experiments test this hypothesis by investigating the effect of MDMA administration on SEFL and the expression of immune and cellular markers in the dorsal hippocampus (DH) following severe stress.  To this end, experiment 1 determined the effect of MDMA administration 0, 24, and 48 hrs following a severe foot shock stressor on SEFL. We identified that MDMA administration significantly attenuated SEFL. Subsequently, experiment 2 determined the effect of MDMA administration following a severe stressor on the expression of TNF-α, IL-1β, GFAP, and IBA-1 in the DH. We found that MDMA administration significantly attenuated stress-induced IL-1β and stress-reduced IBA-1 but had no effect on TNF-α or GFAP. Our findings suggest that MDMA administration can attenuate SEFL through an immunosuppressive mechanism, as well as reduce stress-induced IL-1β and stress-reduced IBA-1 expression in the DH. These results support the potential use of MDMA as a therapeutic agent for those with PTSD and contribute to the clinical understanding of the disorder.
Cosmological performance of SKA HI galaxy surveys
Creators: name: Yahya, S.
name: Bull, P.
name: Santos, M. G.
name: Silva, M.
name: Maartens, R.
name: Okouma, P.
name: Bassett, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Square Kilometre Array (SKA) will conduct the biggest spectroscopic galaxy survey ever, by detecting the 21cm emission line of neutral hydrogen (HI) from around a billion galaxies over 3/4 of the sky, out to a redshift of z~2. This will allow the redshift-space matter power spectrum, and corresponding dark energy observables, to be measured with unprecedented precision. In this paper, we present an improved model of the HI galaxy number counts and bias from semi-analytic simulations, and use it to calculate the expected yield of HI galaxies from surveys with a variety of Phase 1 and 2 SKA configurations. We illustrate the relative performance of the different surveys by forecasting errors on the radial and transverse scales of the baryon acoustic oscillation (BAO) feature, finding that the full "billion galaxy survey" with SKA2 will deliver the largest dark energy figure of merit of any current or future large-scale structure survey.
description: 11 pages, 7 figures, 5 tables. Minor revisions for improved clarity. Version accepted by MNRAS
Additional file 3 of Modeling and optimizing in vitro percentage and speed callus induction of carrot via Multilayer Perceptron-Single point discrete GA and radial basis function
Creators: name: Fallah Ziarani, Masoumeh
name: Tohidfar, Masoud
name: Navvabi, Mohammad
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Biotechnology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 80699 Information Systems not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3. Row data in 8xMS with 8 treatment by using 4 explants at 2 times.
Nitric Oxide-Releasing Silica Nanoparticles with Hyaluronic Acid Coating as a Novel Chemotherapeutic
Creators: name: Phan, Tien
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) coated with hyaluronic acid (HA) were developed as a macromolecular nitric oxide (NO) delivery system to facilitate targeted NO release to melanoma cancer cells at physiological pH. Through borate ester bonds, dopamine-modified HA was coated onto the surface of amine-modified nanoparticles to harness both drug delivery systems’ therapeutic effects against melanoma. A number of surface modifications including the amine modification on the nanoparticles, the concentration of HA coating, and the molecular weight of HA, were evaluated in efforts to synthesize a novel N-diazeniumdiolate NO delivery system with a range of NO-release kinetics. Through the targeting prowess of HA and nanoparticles to cancer cells, this NO delivery system may allow for targeted NO release at therapeutically relevant levels for greater antitumor efficacy and less off-target toxicity. As such, HA-coated, NO-releasing nanoparticles represent a promising NO delivery system and a potential chemotherapeutic.
Results of existence and uniqueness for the Cauchy problem of semilinear heat equations on stratified Lie groups
Creators: name: Hirayama, Hiroyuki
name: Oka, Yasuyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35R03, 35K55

description: The aim of this paper is to give existence and uniqueness results for solutions of the Cauchy problem for semilinear heat equations on stratified Lie groups $\mathbb{G}$ with the homogeneous dimension $N$. We consider the nonlinear function behaves like $|u|^α$ or $|u|^{α-1}u$ $(α>1)$ and the initial data $u_0$ belongs to the Sobolev spaces $L^p_s(\mathbb{G})$ for $1
description: 42 pages
A Fundamental Form of the Schrodinger Equation
Creators: name: Ajaib, Muhammad Adeel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose a first order equation from which the Schrodinger equation can be derived. Matrices that obey certain properties are introduced for this purpose. We start by constructing the solutions of this equation in 1D and solve the problem of electron scattering from a step potential. We show that the sum of the spin up and down, reflection and transmission coefficients, is equal to the quantum mechanical results for this problem. Furthermore, we present a 3D version of the equation which can be used to derive the Schrodinger equation in 3D.
description: 13 pages, 4 Figures, version to be published in FOOP
On asymptotically optimal tests under loss of identifiability in semiparametric models
Creators: name: Fine, Jason P.
name: Song, Rui
name: Kosorok, Michael R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: We consider tests of hypotheses when the parameters are not identifiable under the null in semiparametric models, where regularity conditions for profile likelihood theory fail. Exponential average tests based on integrated profile likelihood are constructed and shown to be asymptotically optimal under a weighted average power criterion with respect to a prior on the nonidentifiable aspect of the model. These results extend existing results for parametric models, which involve more restrictive assumptions on the form of the alternative than do our results. Moreover, the proposed tests accommodate models with infinite dimensional nuisance parameters which either may not be identifiable or may not be estimable at the usual parametric rate. Examples include tests of the presence of a change-point in the Cox model with current status data and tests of regression parameters in odds-rate models with right censored data. Optimal tests have not previously been studied for these scenarios. We study the asymptotic distribution of the proposed tests under the null, fixed contiguous alternatives and random contiguous alternatives. We also propose a weighted bootstrap procedure for computing the critical values of the test statistics. The optimal tests perform well in simulation studies, where they may exhibit improved power over alternative tests.
Additional file 1 of Willingness to pay for HPV vaccine among female health care workers in a Chinese nationwide survey
Creators: name: Lu, Xinyue
name: Ji, Mengdi
name: Wagner, Abram L.
name: Huang, Weifeng
name: Shao, Xiaoping
name: Zhou, Weiyu
name: Lu, Yihan
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Medicine
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Cancer
subject: Science Policy
subject: 110309 Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences

description: Additional file 1: Supplementary Table 1. Response to diverse initial bid amounts across sociodemographics among Chinese female health care workers. Supplementary Table 2. Attitude shift towards HPVvaccines between two payment scenarios across sociodemographics.
Pseudo-binary and pseudo-ternary diffusion couple methods for estimation of the diffusion coefficients in multicomponent systems and high entropy alloys
Creators: name: Neelamegan Esakkiraja
name: Keerti Pandey
name: Anuj Dash
name: Paul, Aloke
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biophysics
subject: 29999 Physical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: 59999 Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Earth and related environmental sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: 69999 Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 19999 Mathematical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: The benefits of using the pseudo-binary and pseudo-ternary diffusion couple methods in multicomponent inhomogeneous systems are demonstrated by estimating different types of composition-dependent diffusion coefficients. These are important for understanding the basic atomic mechanism of diffusion and complex compositional evolutions. These were otherwise considered impossible during the last many decades. Without any options previously, sometimes the average values over a composition range of random choice were estimated, which are not the material constants but depend on the composition range and also the end member compositions. The steps and analyses for utilising the pseudo-binary and pseudo-ternary methods are first described in the Ni-Co-Fe-Mo system by producing the ideal diffusion profiles fulfilling the concepts behind these methods. Following, the discussion is extended to the systems related to medium (Ni-Co-Cr) and high (Ni-Co-Fe-Mn-Al) entropy alloys. In fact, this is the first report showing a correct experimental method that should be followed for the estimation of the interdiffusion and intrinsic diffusion coefficients in inhomogeneous high entropy alloys. In the end, the limitations of following these methods because of the generation of non-ideal diffusion profiles are discussed based on experimental results. The steps are also suggested to avoid such complications. These methods are easy to adopt for research engineers. Most importantly, these give an opportunity to validate the data estimated following newly proposed numerical methods by different groups with experimentally estimated diffusion coefficients, which were not possible earlier.
The Invisible "Other": Understanding Experiences of Sex Workers in Japan through Carceral Theory
Creators: name: Mayfield-Loomis, Anyanna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: This thesis explores the complex and stigmatizing experiences of sex workers in Japan through the lens of Carceral Theory. Many sex workers in Japan occupy a legal gray area that puts them at risk for similar social discrimination to criminals, without the consequence of imprisonment. During pertinent periods, such as the Meiji Restoration, Japan underwent a "modernization" on the role of women and prison systems. These historical changes influenced the current social perception and rejection of sex workers. In this paper, first-hand based analysis, informed by video interviews and ethnographic research done by scholars, is connected to carceral theory to understand the experiences of sex workers as carceral "others."
This Place is Haunted: On the Depiction of Trauma in Horror Literature, Particularly through Haunted Houses
Creators: name: Radtke, Ashley
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Through the structure of a haunted house, this thesis surveys horror literature from the late 1800s to contemporary works in order to analyze depictions of trauma; how trauma, time, and memory work together to lock a person and a house in the past, altering both, forever, through tragedy.
Deciphering Accretion-Driven Starquakes in Recycled Millisecond Pulsars using Gravitational Waves
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Sagnik
name: Nath, Kamal Krishna
name: Mallick, Ritam
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Recycled millisecond pulsars are susceptible to starquakes as they are continuously accreting matter from their binary companion. A starquake happens when the rotational frequency of the star crosses its breaking frequency. In this study, we perform a model analysis of an accreting neutron star suffering a starquake. We analyze two models: a spherical star with accreting mountains and a deformed star with accreting mountains. We find that as the star crosses the breaking frequency and suffers a starquake there is a sudden change in the continuous gravitational wave signal arriving from them. It is interesting to note that the amplitude of the gravitational wave signals increases suddenly for the spherical star. In contrast, for the deformed star, the amplitude of the continuous gravitational wave signal decreases suddenly. This sudden change in the continuous gravitational wave signal in recycled millisecond pulsars can be a unique signature for such pulsars undergoing a starquake.
description: 10 pages, 9 figures (accepted for publication in MNRAS)
Convergence and prediction of principal component scores in high-dimensional settings
Creators: name: Wright, Fred A.
name: Lee, Seunggeun
name: Zou, Fei
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: A number of settings arise in which it is of interest to predict Principal Component (PC) scores for new observations using data from an initial sample. In this paper, we demonstrate that naive approaches to PC score prediction can be substantially biased towards 0 in the analysis of large matrices. This phenomenon is largely related to known inconsistency results for sample eigenvalues and eigenvectors as both dimensions of the matrix increase. For the spiked eigenvalue model for random matrices, we expand the generality of these results, and propose bias-adjusted PC score prediction. In addition, we compute the asymptotic correlation coefficient between PC scores from sample and population eigenvectors. Simulation and real data examples from the genetics literature show the improved bias and numerical properties of our estimators.
Understanding the Barriers and Enablers to Escaping Homelessness Throughout the Pathway to Rough Sleeping
Creators: name: Holding, Sophie
Publisher: name: Lancaster University
Year: 2022

description: This thesis explores the narratives of people who have experienced repeated or sustained episodes of rough sleeping and the barriers and comprises of a systematic literature review, a research paper and a critical appraisal. The literature review uses a meta-ethnographic approach to understand the experiences and enactments of agency, choice and control for people experiencing homelessness. The review applies a theoretical framework of agency, choice and control as a lens through which to synthesise and interpret peoples’ experiences of homelessness. Participants in the studies responded to overwhelming structural and systemic forces through choices and actions that reclaimed a sense of agency and prioritized physical and psychological safety. Constraints in making choices directed at the future were identified alongside factors that shifted agency to be directed towards the future. The research paper uses a narrative approach for the collection and analysis of the accounts of six people who have experienced sustained or repeated episodes of rough sleeping. The findings are presented over four chapters and an afterword in which a narrative was constructed of participants being broken down by homelessness and by drugs and the subsequent rebuilding of their lives. The barriers to escaping homelessness throughout their pathway to rough sleeping, including the absence of help, hostile environments and institutional failure are identified. Facilitators which enabled people to escape from the streets primarily emerged through relationships with support workers who were persistently present and believed in them. Findings of the research are considered within wide socio-political contexts and implications for clinical practice are considered. Finally, the critical appraisal elaborates on reflexivity utilizing extracts from the researcher’s reflective log to highlight points where the researcher’s position in relation to the research topics impacted on the research. This section concludes with further considerations of implications for clinical practice.
Multivariate varying coefficient model for functional responses
Creators: name: Li, Runze
name: Kong, Linglong
name: Zhu, Hongtu
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Motivated by recent work studying massive imaging data in the neuroimaging literature, we propose multivariate varying coefficient models (MVCM) for modeling the relation between multiple functional responses and a set of covariates. We develop several statistical inference procedures for MVCM and systematically study their theoretical properties. We first establish the weak convergence of the local linear estimate of coefficient functions, as well as its asymptotic bias and variance, and then we derive asymptotic bias and mean integrated squared error of smoothed individual functions and their uniform convergence rate. We establish the uniform convergence rate of the estimated covariance function of the individual functions and its associated eigenvalue and eigenfunctions. We propose a global test for linear hypotheses of varying coefficient functions, and derive its asymptotic distribution under the null hypothesis. We also propose a simultaneous confidence band for each individual effect curve. We conduct Monte Carlo simulation to examine the finite-sample performance of the proposed procedures. We apply MVCM to investigate the development of white matter diffusivities along the genu tract of the corpus callosum in a clinical study of neurodevelopment.
Simultaneous Velocity and Position Estimation via Distance-only Measurements with Application to Multi-Agent System Control
Creators: name: Jiang, Bomin
name: Deghat, Mohammad
name: Anderson, Brian D. O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Systems and Control (eess.SY)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering

description: This paper proposes a strategy to estimate the velocity and position of neighbor agents using distance measurements only. Since with agents executing arbitrary motions, instantaneous distance-only measurements cannot provide enough information for our objectives, we postulate that agents engage in a combination of circular motion and linear motion. The proposed estimator can be used to develop control algorithms where only distance measurements are available to each agent. As an example, we show how this estimation method can be used to control the formation shape and velocity of the agents in a multi agent system. Simulation results are provided to illustrate the performance of the proposed algorithm.
description: Submitted to IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control as a Technical Note
Balancing Progress and Responsibility: A Synthesis of Sustainability Trade-Offs of AI-Based Systems
Creators: name: Kumar, Apoorva Nalini Pradeep
name: Bogner, Justus
name: Funke, Markus
name: Lago, Patricia
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities have increased the eagerness of companies to integrate AI into software systems. While AI can be used to have a positive impact on several dimensions of sustainability, this is often overshadowed by its potential negative influence. While many studies have explored sustainability factors in isolation, there is insufficient holistic coverage of potential sustainability benefits or costs that practitioners need to consider during decision-making for AI adoption. We therefore aim to synthesize trade-offs related to sustainability in the context of integrating AI into software systems. We want to make the sustainability benefits and costs of integrating AI more transparent and accessible for practitioners.
 The study was conducted in collaboration with a Dutch financial organization. We first performed a rapid review that led to the inclusion of 151 research papers. Afterward, we conducted six semi-structured interviews to enrich the data with industry perspectives. The combined results showcase the potential sustainability benefits and costs of integrating AI. The labels synthesized from the review regarding potential sustainability benefits were clustered into 16 themes, with "energy management" being the most frequently mentioned one. 11 themes were identified in the interviews, with the top mentioned theme being "employee wellbeing". Regarding sustainability costs, the review discovered seven themes, with "deployment issues" being the most popular one, followed by "ethics & society". "Environmental issues" was the top theme from the interviews. Our results provide valuable insights to organizations and practitioners for understanding the potential sustainability implications of adopting AI.
description: Accepted for publication at the 8th International Workshop on Green and Sustainable Software (GREENS'24), collocated with ICSA'24
Resilience and Antifragility of Autonomous Systems
Creators: name: Burton, Simon
name: Calinescu, Radu
name: Mirandola, Raffaela
Publisher: name: Schloss Dagstuhl - Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (LZI)
Year: 2024
Subjects: artificial intelligence
antifragility
autonomous systems
disturbance
ethics
formal methods
machine learning
nondeterminism
resilience
safety
self-adaptive systems
validation and verification
uncertainty
General and reference → Reliability
General and reference → Metrics
General and reference → Validation
Computer systems organization → Embedded and cyber-physical systems
Computer systems organization → Dependable and fault-tolerant systems and networks
Software and its engineering
Theory of computation → Logic
Mathematics of computing → Probability and statistics
Computing methodologies → Artificial intelligence
Computing methodologies → Machine learning
Human-centered computing

description: In healthcare, transportation, manufacturing, and many other domains, autonomous systems have the potential to undertake or support complex missions that are dangerous, difficult, or tedious for humans. However, to achieve this potential, autonomous systems must be resilient: they must continue to provide the required functionality despite the anticipated and unforeseen disturbances encountered within their operating environments. This ability to achieve user goals in open-world environments can be further increased by making autonomous systems antifragile. Antifragile systems benefit from exposure to uncertainty and disturbances, by learning from encounters with such difficulties, so that they can handle their future occurrences faster, more efficiently, with lower user impact, etc. This Dagstuhl Seminar brought together leading researchers and practitioners with expertise in autonomous system resilience, antifragility, safety and ethics, self-adaptive systems, and formal methods, with the aim to: (1) develop and document a common understanding of resilient and antifragile autonomous systems (RAAS); (2) identify open challenges for RAAS; (3) discuss promising preliminary approaches; and (4) propose a research agenda for addressing these challenges.