cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Essays on disability and employment
Creators: name: Whalen, Denise
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Despite the growing prevalence of disability among prime age men and strong correlations between disability and negative employment outcomes, few economic analyses address the avenues through which disability may influence these observed outcomes. Particularly, the impact of disability on employment decisions of disabled workers who remain employed is unknown. In this research, I focus on employment transitions and occupational choice, and the role these employment outcomes play as contributors to disability status and the observed difference in wages of working age males. Based on a dynamic framework of employment transitions and disability over time, the empirical model estimates equations for employer and occupational changes, occupational choice, disability status, and wages of men. The analyses are conducted using longitudinal data on individuals from the Survey of Income and Program Participation and data on occupations from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles. A nonlinear random effects joint estimation technique accounts for both permanent and time-varying unobserved heterogeneity that may influence employment transitions, wages, and disability. The results suggest that moderately disabled workers are 23 percent more likely to change occupations and/or employers compared to non-disabled men and that these transitions contribute negatively to wages through reductions in tenure. Furthermore, disabled individuals are found to select into occupations with low requirements of most job characteristics, most significantly reasoning and math. While the majority of these job characteristics have only a small impact on disability status, they have a large and significant effect on wages. The importance of controlling for occupational choice is also revealed, as the marginal effect of characteristics on wages differs across analyses that do and do not control for endogenous occupation selection.
Arguing for Validity When Using a Small Scale Study to Determine the Content of a Montessori Teacher Credentialing Test
Creators: name: Talley, Diane
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Measuring competency of a Montessori teacher for the purpose of credentialing requires a deep understanding of the role of these teachers in the classroom and school environment. In the credentialing industry, large-scale studies are conducted in order to determine the essential tasks performed on the job and the critical knowledge, skills, and abilities required for competent performance. Literature suggests a strong reliance on a single method for determining content of a credentialing test (Raymond, 2001, 2016), but not all professions have the same characteristics or can support use of large-scale studies. This research investigated whether a content framework developed using a small-scale study that relies on the work of a carefully selected panel of experts provides adequate content-related validity evidence. Such evidence is essential to a high quality test that aligns with industry standards (AERA, APA, & NCME, 2014). The method selected was a three-phase process, referred to as a practice analysis study: 1) planning, 2) in-person meeting to develop the content framework, and 3) survey. Thirteen early childhood Montessori teachers, teacher trainers, and administrators in South Carolina were carefully selected to represent the profession in that state. These experts identified essential tasks of an entry-level teacher. A survey was then administered to both the panel and a broader sample of professionals in South Carolina to determine the importance of each task in the content framework. Results from the panel of experts were compared to those from the broader professional population using parametric and non-parametric statistical analysis. In addition, results were evaluated within a validity framework to determine the impact when relying on a small-scale study. Results of non-parametric analyses indicated agreement between the two groups for all but 2 of 19 tasks. Results of correlation analysis indicated overall moderate to strong agreement between groups. Selecting a small-scale study method using a panel-only practice analysis is supported based on the results, assuming the panel can be carefully selected to represent the diversity of the profession and stakes are low to moderate. There may be some concerns for using panel results alone when stakes are high, such as those for licensure testing.
C*-simplicity of free products with amalgamation and radical classes of groups
Creators: name: Ivanov, Nikolay A.
name: Omland, Tron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Operator Algebras (math.OA)
subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 22D25, 20E06 (Primary), 46L05, 43A07 (Secondary)

description: We give new characterizations to ensure that a free product of groups with amalgamation has a simple reduced group C*-algebra, and provide a concrete example of an amalgam with trivial kernel, such that its reduced group C*-algebra has a unique tracial state, but is not simple. Moreover, we show that there is a radical class of groups for which the reduced group C*-algebra of any group is simple precisely when the group has a trivial radical corresponding to this class.
description: 23 pages; the statement of Lemma 5.8 and the proof of Theorem 5.9 have been corrected, and certain paragraphs of Section 5 have been reformulated to accommodate for this
THE ROLE OF SPORTS TEAM REPUTATION AS THE MEDIATOR BETWEEN CELEBRITY ENDORSEMENT AND SPECTATOR LOYALTY IN THE PROFESSIONAL THAI FOOTBALL LEAGUE
Creators: name: Thee TRONGJITPITUK
Publisher: name: The Sports Science Society of Thailand (SSST)
Year: 2022
Subjects: Sports Team Reputation
Celebrity Endorsement
Spectator Loyalty
Professional Football League

description: Journal of Sports Science and Technology, 22, 1, 59-69
PHYSICAL EXAMINATION THATCAN IDENTIFY UNILATERAL PATELLAR TENDINITIS PATIENTS WITH LIMITED KNEE RANGE OF MOTION
Creators: name: Warinda INTIRAVORANONT
Publisher: name: The Sports Science Society of Thailand (SSST)
Year: 2022
Subjects: Knee Joint
Patellar Tendinitis
Physical Examination
Physical Therapy

description: Journal of Sports Science and Technology, 22, 1, 70-85
Measurement of the Z gamma to nu nu-bar gamma production cross section in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV and limits on anomalous Z-Z-gamma and Z-gamma-gamma trilinear gauge boson couplings
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A measurement of the Z gamma to nu nu-bar gamma production cross section in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV is presented, using data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 19.6 inverse femtobarns collected with the CMS detector at the LHC. This measurement is based on the observation of events with large missing energy and with a single photon with transverse momentum above 145 GeV and absolute pseudorapidity in the range |eta| < 1.44. The measured Z gamma to nu nu-bar gamma production cross section, 52.7 +/- 2.1(stat) +/- 6.4 (syst) +/- 1.4 (lumi) fb, agrees well with the standard model prediction of 50.0 +2.4 -2.2 fb. A study of the photon transverse momentum spectrum yields the most stringent limits to date on the anomalous Z-Z-gamma and Z-gamma-gamma trilinear gauge boson couplings.
description: Replaced with published version. Added the journal reference and DOI. All figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/SMP-14-019/index.html
QUADRICEPS FEMORIS AND HAMSTRINGS MUSCLE STRENGTH IN RECREATIONAL RUNNERS WITH DIFFERENT HAMSTRINGS MUSCLE LENGTH
Creators: name: Pannapa LEEPOKPINYO
Publisher: name: The Sports Science Society of Thailand (SSST)
Year: 2022
Subjects: Hamstrings Muscle Length
Muscle Strength
Stretching
Recreational Runners

description: Journal of Sports Science and Technology, 22, 1, 86-98
Landweber flat real pairs and ER(n)-cohomology
Creators: name: Kitchloo, Nitu
name: Lorman, Vitaly
name: Wilson, W. Stephen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 55P91, 55N22, 55N91

description: We take advantage of the internal algebraic structure of the Bockstein spectral sequence converging to ER(n)^*(pt) to prove that for spaces Z that are part of Landweber flat real pairs with respect to E(n), the cohomology ring ER(n)^*(Z) can be obtained from E(n)^*(Z) by base change. In particular, our results allow us to compute the Real Johnson-Wilson cohomology of the Eilenberg-MacLane spaces Z = K(Z, 2m+1), K(Z/2^q, 2m), K(Z/2, m) for all natural numbers $m$ and $q$, as well as connective covers of BO: BO, BSO, BSpin, and BO<8> (the last for n<3 only).
description: 21 pages; version 3 (final version): several minor corrections
THE STUDY OF INJURY BIOMARKERS IN MUAYTHAI BOXERS
Creators: name: Pravet KETKAN
Publisher: name: The Sports Science Society of Thailand (SSST)
Year: 2022
Subjects: MuayThai/Alanine Aminotransferase
Aspartate Aminotransferase
Creatine Kinase
Urine Red Blood Cell

description: Journal of Sports Science and Technology, 22, 1, 99-112
THE EFFECTS OF LISTENING TOSLOW MUSIC IN COMBINATIONWITH COLD-WATER IMMERSION ONRECOVERY AFTER EXERCISE TO EXHAUSTION IN MALE FUTSAL ATHLETES
Creators: name: Chadaphan SUWANNATE
Publisher: name: The Sports Science Society of Thailand (SSST)
Year: 2022
Subjects: Cold Water Immersion
Listened to Slow Music
Male Futsal Athletes
Recovery

description: Journal of Sports Science and Technology, 22, 1, 113-126
$A_\infty / L_\infty$ structure and alternative action for WZW-like superstring field theory
Creators: name: Goto, Keiyu
name: Matsunaga, Hiroaki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We propose new gauge invariant actions for open NS, heterotic NS, and closed NS-NS superstring field theories. They are based on the large Hilbert space, and have Wess-Zumino-Witten-like expressions which are the $\mathbb{Z}_{2}$-reversed versions of the conventional WZW-like actions. On the basis of the procedure proposed in arXiv:1505.01659, we show that our new WZW-like actions are completely equivalent to $A_{\infty }/L_{\infty }$ actions proposed in arXiv:1403.0940 respectively.
description: 23+21 pages; Published ver
Essays in Sovereign Default and International Financial Liberalization
Creators: name: Moussa, Racha
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2013

description: My dissertation is a collection of three papers that deal with the issues of sovereign default and international financial liberalization. The first paper is titled: Debt Denomination, Exchange Rate Regimes, and Sovereign Default. This paper develops a dynamic stochastic open economy model where default occurs in equilibrium to study the welfare impact of abandoning a fixed exchange rate regime before a sovereign default crisis. The implications of abandoning a fixed exchange rate are captured using two key features: sticky nominal wages and foreign-currency denominated debt. Abandoning a fixed exchange rate allows governments to regain monetary independence to pursue employment and output goals. However, the accompanying nominal devaluation increases the external debt burden and the probability of default. Fixed exchange rates, on the other hand, involve a loss of monetary independence but less volatility in the foreign-currency denominated external debt burden. Therefore, in the model, the welfare impact of an exchange rate regime switch prior to sovereign default depends on two countervailing effects: the output effect and the debt burden effect. The second paper is titled: Default, Austerity, and their Relative Costs. This paper uses the model developed in Cuadra et al. (2010) to find thresholds beyond which an increase in austerity is less optimal than default as a method to deal with an unsustainable debt burden. The third paper is titled: Does Capital Scarcity Matter and is joint with Anusha Chari and Peter Blair Henry. This paper quantifies the welfare impact of a permanent increase in the level of per capita income brought about by a temporary increase in the growth rate of GDP per capita following capital account liberalization. In the immediate aftermath of liberalization, and under a range of assumptions, differences between the autarkic and integrated equilibrium consumption paths are large. Yet the welfare impact of these differences is small when using infinite horizon consumption streams to compute welfare. The results suggest that a finite horizon framework may be more appropriate for evaluating the welfare consequences of economic policy changes that induce temporary growth effects but have a permanent impact on the level of per capita incomes.
THE STUDY OF PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN WORKING ADULTS AT HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS AT MAHASARAKHAM PROVINCE DURING THE SITUATION OF CORONA VIRUS 2019 (COVID-19)
Creators: name: Kritchapol ARSAPKDEE
Publisher: name: The Sports Science Society of Thailand (SSST)
Year: 2022
Subjects: Physical Activity
Working Adults / Situation of Corona Virus 2019 (COVID-19)

description: Journal of Sports Science and Technology, 22, 1, 127-140
Autonome, kardiovaskuläre und metabolische Wirkungen kombinierter pharmakologischer Noradrenalin- und Serotonin-Wiederaufnahme-Hemmung
Creators: name: Birkenfeld, Andreas L.
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Medizinische Fakultät - Universitätsklinikum Charité
Year: 2004
Subjects: subject: Noradrenalin-Transporter-Hemmung
subject: Sibutramin
subject: Autonomes Nervensystem
subject: Adipositas
subject: Norepinephrine-Transporter-Blockade
subject: Sibutramine
subject: Autonomic Nervous System
subject: Obesity
subject: 610 Medizin
subject: 33 Medizin
subject: XI 2004
subject: XI 2036
subject: YC 8104
subject: YC 8115

description: Hintergrund. Sibutramin ist ein Medikament, das häufig zur Gewichtsreduktion eingesetzt wird. Es hemmt die Wiederaufnahme von Noradrenalin und Serotonin. Noradrenalin-Wiederaufnahme-Hemmung könnte zu arterieller Hypertonie führen. Methoden. In einer doppelt-blinden, randomisierten Cross-Over Studie untersuchten wir 11 junge, gesunde Probanden (7 Männer, 4 Frauen, Alter 27±2 Jahre, BMI 23.1±0.7Kg/m2). Sie nahmen 26 Stunden (h) und 14h vor Studienbeginn 10mg Sibutramin ein, und 2h vor Untersuchungsbeginn 20mg. Die Wirkung verglichen wir mit Placebo und der Kombination von Sibutramin und 200mg des Beta1-Adrenorezeptor-Blockers Metoprolol. Autonome Reflextests, eine graduelle Kipptischuntersuchung, Plasmakatecholamin-Bestimmungen und eine indirekt kalorimetrische Messung wurden durchgeführt. Herzfrequenz- und Blutdruckbestimmungen erfolgten kontinuierlich und nichtinvasiv. Wir zeichneten das Schlagvolumen, das Herzzeitvolumen und den peripheren Widerstand impedanzkardiografisch auf. Ergebnisse. Sibutramin verursachte einen leichten Anstieg der Herzfrequenz in Ruhe (p
description: Background. Sibutramine, a serotonin and norepinephrine transporter blocker, is widely used as an adjunctive obesitytreatment. Norepinephrine reuptake inhibition with sibutramine conceivably could exacerbate arterial hypertension andpromote cardiovascular disease. Methods. In 11 healthy subjects (7 men, age 27±2 years, body mass index 23.1±0.7 kg/m2), we compared the effect of sibutramine or matching placebo (ingested 26, 14, and 2 hours before testing) on cardiovascular responses to autonomic reflex tests and to a graded head-up tilt test. In addition, we tested sibutramine in combination with metoprolol. Testing was conducted in a double-blind and crossover fashion. Results. Supine systolic blood pressure was 113±3 mm Hg with placebo, 121±3 mm Hg with sibutramine (P
Immediate placement and loading of dental implants into infected sites with and without antibiotic prophylaxis: an exploratory study
Creators: name: Givens, Edward J., Jr.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: The objective of this prospective clinical trial was to evaluate the influence of pre- and post-operative antibiotic therapy on the survival rate of implants immediately placed and loaded into sites with infection. Fifteen subjects were enrolled in the study. All subjects underwent extraction of an infected tooth. All but two received an implant, abutment, and provisional crown at the same visit. Follow-up visits at week 1, 4, and months 6 and 12 were completed. Of the thirteen implants placed, two failed to integrate. Of the two failed implants, one subject received antibiotic, whereas the other received placebo. Within the limitations of this study, it appears that pre- and post-operative antibiotic use does not have a beneficial effect on the outcome of implants placed into sites with periradicular infection. Additionally, implants placed into sites with infection have comparable success rates to implants placed in sites without infection
BIOMECHANICS OF JUMP FLOAT SERVE IN THE WOMEN’S NATIONAL VOLLEYBALL TERM OF THAILAND
Creators: name: Sirirat HIRUNRAT
Publisher: name: The Sports Science Society of Thailand (SSST)
Year: 2022
Subjects: Biomechanics
Jumping Serve
Kinematic

description: Journal of Sports Science and Technology, 22, 2, 8-12
THE BCG ECONOMY MODEL AND ITS APPLICATION FORSPORTS EVENT MANAGEMENTIN THAILAND
Creators: name: Thanavutd CHUTIPHONGDECH
Publisher: name: The Sports Science Society of Thailand (SSST)
Year: 2022
Subjects: BCG Economy Model/Sports Management/Sports Event, SportsTourism/Sustainable Development

description: Journal of Sports Science and Technology, 22, 2, 13-31
Quantum Locality, Rings a Bell?: Bell's inequality meets local reality and true determinism
Creators: name: Sánchez-Kuntz, Natalia
name: Nahmad-Achar, Eduardo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: By assuming a deterministic evolution of quantum systems and taking realism into account, we carefully build a hidden variable theory for Quantum Mechanics based on the notion of ontological states proposed by 't Hooft. We view these ontological states as the ones embedded with realism and compare them to the (usual) quantum states that represent superpositions, viewing the latter as mere information of the system they describe. Such a deterministic model puts forward conditions for the applicability of Bell's inequality: the usual inequality cannot be applied to the usual experiments. We build a Bell-like inequality that can be applied to the EPR scenario and show that this inequality is always satisfied by Quantum Mechanics. In this way we show that Quantum Mechanics can indeed have a local interpretation, and thus meet with the causal structure imposed by the Theory of Special Relativity in a satisfying way.
description: 20 pages, 2 figures, 5 tables
HIGH-INTENSITY INTERVAL TRAINING: THE EFFECTS OF ACTIVE AND PASSIVE RECOVERY BOUTS ON PHYSIOLOGICAL INDICES IN VARSITY SOCCER PLAYERS
Creators: name: Arom TREERAJ
Publisher: name: The Sports Science Society of Thailand (SSST)
Year: 2022
Subjects: HIIT
RAST
Aerobic capacity
Anaerobic capacity
Ventilatory threshold

description: Journal of Sports Science and Technology, 22, 2, 46-60
THE EFFECTS OF MASSAGE WITH PLAI ESSENTIAL OIL AND STATIC STRETCHING ON SEVERITY OF PAIN, NECK MOVEMENT,CRANIOVERTEBRAL ANGLE IN OFFICE WORKERS WITH CHRONIC NECK PAIN
Creators: name: Pailin PUAGPRAKONG
Publisher: name: The Sports Science Society of Thailand (SSST)
Year: 2022
Subjects: Herbal plants
Myofascial Pain Syndrome
Massage Therapy
Stretching
Rang of Motion

description: Journal of Sports Science and Technology, 22, 2, 61-79
Avoiding Ad Avoidance: Factors Affecting The Perception Of Online Banner Ads
Creators: name: Portnoy, Felix
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2012

description: This dissertation examined the effect of search type, ad saliency, and ad repetition on the perception of online banner advertisements. In the first study, 48 student participants conducted simulated search tasks using mixed factorial design where search type (known-item vs. exploratory) was manipulated within-subject and the banner saliency level (low (black and white) vs. medium (color) vs. high (color animation)) was manipulated between subjects. The results showed a significant effect for search type, such that during an exploratory search task the participants had a higher average number of eye fixations on the banner ads compared with known-item search. In addition, there was a significant difference between high and low ad saliency levels, such that participants exposed to low salient ads had a higher average number of eye fixations on the banner ads as compared with high salient ads. There was no significant effect of ad repetition on ad perception. A second study replicated the original experimental design but used four novice Internet users. The results from the second study provide preliminary support to the asymptotic habituation model, which predicts an inverse decline of an orienting response to banner ads as a function of repetition. This dissertation concludes with applicable design recommendation for banner ad deployment to ensure visibility while maintaining a positive user experience.
VALIDITY AND RELIABILITY OF A DIGITAL INCLINOMETER IN ANKLE JOINT POSITION SENSE ASSESSMENT
Creators: name: Ampika NANBANCHA
Publisher: name: The Sports Science Society of Thailand (SSST)
Year: 2022
Subjects: Digital Inclinometer
Intra-Rater Reliability
Inter-Rater Reliability
JointPosistion Sense
Ankle

description: Journal of Sports Science and Technology, 22, 2, 80-90
A COMPARISON STUDY OF THREE DIFFERENT HEART RATE MONITORING DEVICES
Creators: name: Kittichai THARAWADEEPIMUK
Publisher: name: The Sports Science Society of Thailand (SSST)
Year: 2022
Subjects: Heart Rate
Chest Strap Heart Rate Sensor (Polar)
Low-Cost Smart Watch (Watch)
Heart Rate Plus Mobile Application (App)

description: Journal of Sports Science and Technology, 22, 2, 104-120
Revolution 2.0: the political impact of Internet and social media proliferation in authoritarian countries
Creators: name: Wenker, Nicolas Laurent
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2012

description: Within recent years, Web 2.0 Social Media tools such as social networking websites, video-sharing platforms, and micro-blogs have proliferated across the world at an exponential rate. While the spread and effects of such technologies have been well-documented in democratic societies, there has been a comparative poverty of insight as to Social Media's implications for authoritarian countries. This void requires urgent redress, as it is within such countries that these new tools may have their greatest impact on the affairs of the 21st century. Civil societies and social movements have used Social Media to challenge authoritarian governments on an unprecedented scale even as these same technologies have provided repressive regimes with new opportunities for consolidating power. This thesis draws on the preliminary scholarship and a rich spectrum of recent empirical developments in order to argue that Social Media proliferation will likely prove more advantageous for civil societies than for authoritarian governments.
Quadratic transformations for orthogonal polynomials in one and two variables
Creators: name: Koornwinder, Tom H.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 33C45, 33C52, 33D45, 33D52

description: We discuss quadratic transformations for orthogonal polynomials in one and two variables. In the one-variable case we list many (or all) quadratic transformations between families in the Askey scheme or $q$-Askey scheme. In the two-variable case we focus, after some generalities, on the polynomials associated with root system $BC_2$, i.e., $BC_2$-type Jacobi polynomials if $q=1$ and Koornwinder polynomials in two variables in the $q$-case.
description: v2: minor corrections, 24 pages
A Failed Poet and the Problem with Poetry in Zygmunt Krasiński’s Nieboska komedia
Creators: name: Szypszak, Lara Sophia
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2014

description: This thesis examines how Zygmunt Krasinski challenges the understanding of the Polish Romantic prophet-poet in his 1833 drama Nie-boska komedia. The four-act play demonstrates the possible failure of the poet who attempts to lead the nation with his words amidst a revolution between aristocracy and the masses. I analyze the ways in which Krasinski's poet learns that poetry can be deceptive and lead him astray, ultimately making him ineffective in both word and deed. Throughout my analysis, I argue that Krasinski employs an identifiable Romantic literary form in order to challenge the Romantic notion that lofty Romantic ideas about Poetry (i.e. word) must be fully embraced in order to lead to action (i.e. deed); he uses the content of his play to argue that overindulging Poetry may cause damage when used to appeal to the masses on behalf of the Nation.
Search for supersymmetry in electroweak production with photons and large missing transverse energy in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV
Creators: name: CMS Collaboration
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Results are reported from a search for supersymmetry with gauge-mediated supersymmetry breaking in electroweak production. Final states with photons and large missing transverse energy (MET) were examined. The data sample was collected in pp collisions at sqrt(s) = 8 TeV with the CMS detector at the LHC and corresponds to 7.4 inverse femtobarns. The analysis focuses on scenarios in which the lightest neutralino has bino- or wino-like components, resulting in decays to photons and gravitinos, where the gravitinos escape undetected. The data were obtained using a specially designed trigger with dedicated low thresholds, providing good sensitivity to signatures with photons, MET, and low hadronic energy. No excess of events over the standard model expectation is observed. The results are interpreted using the model of general gauge mediation. With the wino mass fixed at 10 GeV above that of the bino, wino masses below 710 GeV are excluded at 95% confidence level. Constraints are also set in the context of two simplified models, for which the analysis sets the lowest cross section limits on the electroweak production of supersymmetric particles.
description: Replaced with published version. Added the journal reference and DOI. All figures and tables can be found at http://cms-results.web.cern.ch/cms-results/public-results/publications/SUS-14-016/index.html
THE EFFECTS OF REPOSITIONING EXERCISE ON ALTERATION OF FORWARD HEAD POSTURE AND ROUND SHOULDER IN ESPORT ATHLETES
Creators: name: Yodchai Boonprakob
Publisher: name: The Sports Science Society of Thailand (SSST)
Year: 2022
Subjects: Esport
Forward head posture
Round shoulder
epositioning exercise

description: Journal of Sports Science and Technology, 22, 2, 136-153
Lower bound on concurrence for arbitrary-dimensional tripartite quantum systems
Creators: name: Chen, Wei
name: Fei, Shao-Ming
name: Zheng, Zhu-Jun
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this paper, we study the concurrence of arbitrary dimensional tripartite quantum systems. An explicit operational lower bound of concurrence is obtained in terms of the concurrence of sub-states. A given example show that our lower bound may improve the well known existing lower bounds of concurrence. The significance of our result is to get a lower bound when we study the concurrence of arbitrary dimensional multipartite quantum systems.
description: 1 figures, Quantum Information Processing 2016
In silico strategies to study polypharmacology of G-protein-coupled receptors
Creators: name: Hajjo, Rima M. K. I.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: The development of drugs that simultaneously target multiple receptors in a rational way (i.e., 'magic shotguns') is regarded as a promising approach for drug discovery to treat complex, multi-factorial and multi-pathogenic diseases. My major goal is to develop and employ different computational approaches towards the rational design of drugs with selective polypharmacology towards guanine nucleotide-binding protein (G-protein)-coupled receptors (GPCRs) to treat central nervous system diseases. Our methodologies rely on the advances in chemocentric informatics and chemogenomics to generate experimentally testable hypotheses that are derived by fusing independent lines of evidence. We posit that such hypothesis fusion approach allows us to improve the overall success rates of in silico lead identification efforts. We have developed an integrated computational approach that combines Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships (QSAR) modeling, model-based virtual screening (VS), gene expression analysis and mining of the biological literature for drug discovery. The dissertation research described herein is focused on: (1) The development of robust data-driven Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationship (QSAR) models of single target GPCR datasets that will amount to the compendium of GPCR predictors: the GPCR QSARome; (2) The development of robust data-driven QSAR models for families of GPCRs and other trans-membrane molecular targets (i.e., sigma receptors) and the application of models as virtual screening tools for the quick prioritization of compounds for biological testing across receptor families; (3) The development of novel integrative chemocentric informatics approaches to predict receptor-mediated clinical effects of chemicals. Results indicated that our computational efforts to establish a compendium of computational predictors and devise an integrative chemocentric informatics approach to study polypharmacology in silico will eventually lead to useful and reliable tools aimed at identifying and enriching chemical libraries with compounds that have the desired activities for more than one molecular target of interest.
The relationships between insomnia, nightmares, and dreams: A systematic review
Creators: name: Bastien, Célyne H.
name: Côté, Jeannie
name: Lemyre, Alexandre
name: Journault, William Girard
name: Delage, Julia Pizzamiglio
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Health Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Sleep Medicine
subject: Medical Specialties
subject: Other Psychiatry and Psychology
subject: Nightmare
subject: systematic review
subject: Dreaming
subject: Sleep disorders
subject: Insomnia

description: The objective of this study is to conduct a systematic review of the relationships between insomnia symptoms and nightmares in the general population and in individuals presenting an insomnia disorder or a nightmare disorder without comorbidity.
Rainbow Rindler metric and Unruh effect
Creators: name: Yadav, Gaurav
name: Komal, Baby
name: Majhi, Bibhas Ranjan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The energy of a particle moving on a spacetime, in principle, can affect the background metric. The modifications to it depend on the ratio of energy of the particle and the Planck energy, known as rainbow gravity. Here we find the explicit expressions for the coordinate transformations from rainbow Minkowski spacetime to accelerated frame. The corresponding metric is also obtained which we call as rainbow-Rindler metric. So far we are aware of, no body has done it in a concrete manner. Here this is found from the first principle and hence all the parameters are properly identified. The advantage of this is that the calculated Unruh temperature is compatible with the Hawking temperature of the rainbow black hole horizon, obtained earlier. Since the accelerated frame has several importance in revealing various properties of gravity, we believe that the present result will not only fill that gap, but also help to explore different aspects of rainbow gravity paradigm.
description: Modified version, to appear in Int.J.Mod.Phys. A
Item response theory for weighted summed scores
Creators: name: Stucky, Brian Dale
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Tests composed of multiple sections are routinely weighted by section. Methods for weighting have existed perhaps as long as there have been tests; however, computing and evaluating the quality of weights has not evolved with recent advances in test theory (Item Response Theory (IRT)). While IRT may be used to compute accurate estimates of ability based on a variety of information (e.g., pattern responses or summed scores), there has been little research on the computation of scale score estimates for tests with arbitrary item or test section weights. The present work provides an extension to a recursive algorithm for the computation of IRT-scale scores from weighted summed scores.
Cosmology with velocity dispersion counts: an alternative to measuring cluster halo masses
Creators: name: Caldwell, C. E.
name: McCarthy, I. G.
name: Baldry, I. K.
name: Collins, C. A.
name: Schaye, J.
name: Bird, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The evolution of galaxy cluster counts is a powerful probe of several fundamental cosmological parameters. A number of recent studies using this probe have claimed tension with the cosmology preferred by the analysis of the Planck primary CMB data, in the sense that there are fewer clusters observed than predicted based on the primary CMB cosmology. One possible resolution to this problem is systematic errors in the absolute halo mass calibration in cluster studies, which is required to convert the standard theoretical prediction (the halo mass function) into counts as a function of the observable (e.g., X-ray luminosity, Sunyaev-Zel'dovich flux, optical richness). Here we propose an alternative strategy, which is to directly compare predicted and observed cluster counts as a function of the one-dimensional velocity dispersion of the cluster galaxies. We argue that the velocity dispersion of groups/clusters can be theoretically predicted as robustly as mass but, unlike mass, it can also be directly observed, thus circumventing the main systematic bias in traditional cluster counts studies. With the aid of the BAHAMAS suite of cosmological hydrodynamical simulations, we demonstrate the potential of the velocity dispersion counts for discriminating even similar $Λ$CDM models. These predictions can be compared with the results from existing redshift surveys such as the highly-complete Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA) survey, and upcoming wide-field spectroscopic surveys such as the Wide Area Vista Extragalactic Survey (WAVES) and the Dark Energy Survey Instrument (DESI).
description: 15 pages, 13 figures. Accepted for publication in MNRAS. New section on cosmological forecasts added
Maximal torus theory for compact quantum groups
Creators: name: Banica, Teodor
name: Patri, Issan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Associated to any compact quantum group $G\subset U_N^+$ is a canonical family of group dual subgroups $\widehatΓ_Q\subset G$, parametrized by unitaries $Q\in U_N$, playing the role of "maximal tori" for $G$. We present here a series of conjectures, relating the various algebraic and analytic properties of $G$ to those of the family $\{\widehatΓ_Q|Q\in U_N\}$.
description: 18 pages
Genetic mouse models reveal key physiological functions of adrenomedullin signaling
Creators: name: Dackor, Ryan T.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Adrenomedullin (AM) is a potent 52-amino acid peptide vasodilator that is involved in a wide variety of physiological processes, including regulation of renal function, neurotransmission, apoptosis and growth. AM peptide levels are elevated in many cardiovascular conditions, including normal pregnancy, septic shock, hypertension, and renal failure. The multitude of conditions associated with elevated AM levels suggests that it serves to maintain physiological homeostasis during various stresses. AM exerts most of its biological functions by promoting increases in the intracellular messengers, cAMP and/or nitric oxide. Recent characterization of AM signaling has identified a unique mechanism of G-protein coupled receptor signaling, mediated by a class of single transmembrane proteins called receptor activity modifying proteins (RAMPs), that have been shown to dictate ligand binding specificity of the calcitonin receptor like receptor (CLR for protein, Calcrl for gene). To date, three RAMP proteins have been identified and it is the association of RAMP2 or 3 with CLR that designates an AM receptor. My research has utilized several lines of gene targeted mice to determine the in vivo role of AM and its signaling components in various physiologic contexts. I show here that mice lacking CLR suffer from extreme hydrops fetalis and die at mid-gestation with severe cardiovascular defects, including small overall heart sizes, thin vascular smooth muscle cell walls and defects in myocardial proliferation and apoptosis. To further examine the role of CLR in cardiac development and physiology, I crossed mice with a floxed Calcrl allele to two cardiomyocyte-specific Cre lines, [alpha]-MHC and cardiac troponin. These mice develop normally and are born at the expected Mendelian ratios. Additionally, echocardiography and histological examination revealed no significant differences in heart structure or function as late as 14 weeks of age. Cardiomyocyte-specific CLR knockouts and control littermates also responded similarly to cardiac challenge in two different disease models: transverse aortic constriction and angiotensin II infusion. A separate study revealed that RAMP2 and RAMP3 have distinct physiological functions from embryogenesis to old age, whereby genetic deletion of Ramp2 results in embryonic lethality while deletion of Ramp3 has no effect on embryonic development or survival. Finally, I used mice heterozygous for the AM gene to show that the AM peptide is required for the normal inflammatory response to LPS-induced septic shock. Collectively, the work presented here provides the first in vivo genetic characterization of several key genes involved in AM signaling during various physiological conditions.
The semi-classical energy of open Nambu-Goto strings
Creators: name: Zahn, Jochen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We compute semi-classical corrections to the energy of rotating open Nambu-Goto strings with and without masses at the ends, using methods from quantum field theory on curved space-times.
description: 20 pages; v2: Minor corrections and clarifications, reference added; v3: Minor corrections and clarifications, Section 5 and references added; v4: Major revision: Major correction of the result and merged with arXiv:1703.03721
Thermal Stability Of Charged Rotating Quantum Black Holes
Creators: name: Sinha, Aloke Kumar
name: Majumdar, Parthasarathi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Criteria for thermal stability of charged rotating black holes of any dimension are derived, for horizon areas that are large relative to the Planck area (in these dimensions). The derivation is based on generic assumptions of quantum geometry based on some results of loop quantum gravity, and equilibrium statistical mechanics of the Grand Canonical ensemble. There is no explicit use of classical spacetime geometry in this analysis. The only assumption is that the mass of the black hole is a function of its horizon area, charge and angular momentum. Our stability criteria are then tested in detail against specific classical black holes in spacetime dimensions 4 and 5, whose metrics provide us with explicit relations for the dependence of the mass on the charge and angular momentum of the black holes. This enables us to predict which of these black holes are expected to be thermally unstable under Hawking radiation.
Scaling behavior of temperature-dependent thermopower in CeAu2Si2 under pressure
Creators: name: Ren, Z.
name: Scheerer, G. W.
name: Lapertot, G.
name: Jaccard, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report a combined study of in-plane resistivity and thermopower of the pressure-induced heavy fermion superconductor CeAu2Si2 up to 27.8 GPa. It is found that thermopower follows a scaling behavior in T/T* almost up to the magnetic critical pressure pc ~ 22 GPa. By comparing with resistivity results, we show that the magnitude and characteristic temperature dependence of thermopower in this pressure range are governed by the Kondo coupling and crystal-field splitting, respectively. Below pc, the superconducting transition is preceded by a large negative thermopower minimum, suggesting a close relationship between the two phenomena. Furthermore, thermopower of a variety of Ce-based Kondo-lattices with different crystal structures follows the same scaling relation up to T/T* ~ 2.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures. Supplementary Material available on request
Immune Molecules Regulate Medulloblastoma and Neuronal Apoptosis
Creators: name: Knight, Elizabeth R.
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2013

description: While the brain has long been considered an immunoprivileged region, recent research reveals that immune genes play important roles in neurons and the nervous system. Neurons not only express immune genes but these genes can serve immune or neuron-specific functions. Additionally, cytokines produced by immune cells can influence neuronal characteristics and survival. In this work, I investigated the role of an immune cytokine, interferon-gamma (IFN-γ), on neuronal apoptosis and the role of an immune gene, ASC (Apoptosis-associated speck-like protein containing a caspase recruitment domain), in cancer of the cerebellum. While IFN-γ induces apoptosis in many cell types to limit the spread of infection, here we show that it protects sympathetic neurons from death with NGF deprivation or pan-kinase inhibition. Specifically, we determined that IFN-γ inhibited apoptosis at the point of mitochondrial permeabilization, yet did not induce expression of a number of proapoptotic genes in sympathetic neurons that are upregulated in other cell types. The ability of IFN-γ to promote sympathetic neuronal survival while inducing pro-death pathways in pathogens is likely a physiologically important mechanism which could ensure the long-term survival of these neurons during critical situations of infection. We also examined the function of another immune gene, ASC, in the context of brain development and medulloblastoma, the most common malignant pediatric brain cancer. ASC exerts pro-death effects in several cell types, is silenced in many cancers, and acts as a tumor suppressor in colon cancer. Here, we present the unexpected findings that ASC deficiency robustly suppressed tumor incidence, delayed age of tumor onset, reduced premalignant lesion size, decreased EGL (external granule layer) proliferation, and increased TGF-β pathway expression and signaling in a mouse model of medulloblastoma. These results identify a critical function of ASC in driving proliferation and tumorigenesis in this medulloblastoma model. Therapies targeting ASC may be a promising strategy for preventing tumor progression of this challenging disease. Together, these studies illustrate the ability of immune genes and signals to exert powerful effects on neuronal apoptosis and on a cancer of the nervous system.
Optical and UV Spectra of the Remnant of SN 1885 (S And) in M31
Creators: name: Fesen, Robert A.
name: Weil, Kathryn E.
name: Hoeflich, Peter A.
name: Hamilton, Andrew J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present optical and ultraviolet spectra of SN 1885 (S And), visible in absorption against the bulge of the Andromeda galaxy (M31), using the Hubble Space Telescope's STIS spectrograph to probe the three dimensional arrangement of the supernova debris. Spectra covering 2900 to 5700 A taken using six 0.2" slit positions in two orientations show broad Ca II absorption with blue and red radial velocities out to at least 11,500 km/s, consistent with HST Ca II images of S And. Enhanced Ca II absorption is seen between 2000 to 6000 km/s suggestive of a Ca II-rich shell. The spectra also show strong, asymmetric Ca I 4227 A absorption extending out to +12,400 km/s, along with weak Fe I 3720 A absorption in a shell with velocities between 2000 and 9000 km/s. Ultraviolet spectra obtained revealed weak broad absorption shortward of 3000 A consistent with model predictions. The STIS spectra, together with previous HST images, show a layered structure with a well defined Ca-rich outer edge indicative of a delayed detonation phase. The remnant's clumpy inner Ca-rich shell plus only a handful of Fe-rich plumes is unlike morphologies expected from dynamical or violent merger scenarios. The small number of Fe-rich plumes suggest their formation during a deflagration phase by Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities but less well developed without extended mixing as expected from hydrodynamic calculations. The suppression of strong Rayleigh-Taylor instabilities is possibly the result of strong magnetic fields. We propose SN 1885 was an off-center, delayed detonation and slightly subluminous SN Ia similar to SN 1986g.
description: 16 pages and 13 figures, figure and text revisions