cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The maturation of HIV-1 protease precursor studied by discrete molecular dynamics: MD Simulations of the HIV-1 Protease Precursor
Creators: name: Caldarini, Martina
name: Broglia, Ricardo A.
name: Kimura, Sachie
name: Tiana, Guido
name: Dokholyan, Nikolay V.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: The equilibrium properties of a HIV-1-protease precursor are studied by means of an efficient molecular dynamics scheme, which allows for the simulation of the folding of the protein monomers and their dimerization into an active form, and compare them with those of the mature protein. The model can reproduce several experimental observables, including the NMR conformation of the mature dimer, the calorimetry of the system, the effect of the precursor tail on the dimerization constant, the secondary chemical shifts of the monomer and the paramagnetic relaxation enhancement data associated with the conformations of the precursor. It is also found that, while the mature protein can dimerize in a single way, the precursor can populate several dimeric conformations in which the monomers are always native-like, but their binding can be non-native.
The maximum efficiency of nano heat engines depends on more than temperature
Creators: name: Woods, Mischa P.
name: Ng, Nelly
name: Wehner, Stephanie
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Sadi Carnot's theorem regarding the maximum efficiency of heat engines is considered to be of fundamental importance in thermodynamics. This theorem famously states that the maximum efficiency depends only on the temperature of the heat baths used by the engine, but not on the specific structure of baths. Here, we show that when the heat baths are finite in size, and when the engine operates in the quantum nanoregime, a revision to this statement is required. We show that one may still achieve the Carnot efficiency, when certain conditions on the bath structure are satisfied; however if that is not the case, then the maximum achievable efficiency can reduce to a value which is strictly less than Carnot. We derive the maximum efficiency for the case when one of the baths is composed of qubits. Furthermore, we show that the maximum efficiency is determined by either the standard second law of thermodynamics, analogously to the macroscopic case, or by the non increase of the max relative entropy, which is a quantity previously associated with the single shot regime in many quantum protocols. This relative entropic quantity emerges as a consequence of additional constraints, called generalized free energies, that govern thermodynamical transitions in the nanoregime. Our findings imply that in order to maximize efficiency, further considerations in choosing bath Hamiltonians should be made, when explicitly constructing quantum heat engines in the future. This understanding of thermodynamics has implications for nanoscale engineering aiming to construct small thermal machines.
description: Main text 14 pages. Appendix 60 pages. Accepted in Journal Quantum
Human cytomegalovirus TRS1 protein associates with the 7-methylguanosine mRNA cap and facilitates translation
Creators: name: Ziehr, Benjamin
name: Cecil, Chad
name: Garcia, Benjamin
name: Vincent, Heather A.
name: Shenk, Thomas
name: Lenarcic, Erik
name: Moorman, Nathaniel J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Viruses rely on the host translation machinery for the synthesis of viral proteins. Human cells have evolved sensors that recognize viral RNAs and inhibit mRNA translation in order to limit virus replication. Understanding how viruses manipulate the host translation machinery to gain access to ribosomes and disable the antiviral response is therefore a critical aspect of the host:pathogen interface. In this study we used a proteomics approach to identify human cytomegalovirus (HCMV) proteins that might contribute to viral mRNA translation. The HCMV TRS1 protein (pTRS1) associated with the 7-methylguanosine (m7G) mRNA cap, increased the total level of protein synthesis, and co-localized with mRNAs undergoing translation initiation during infection. pTRS1 stimulated translation of a non-viral reporter gene and increased the translation of a reporter containing an HCMV 5’ untranslated region (5’UTR) to a greater extent. The preferential effect of pTRS1 on translation of an mRNA containing a viral 5’UTR required the pTRS1 RNA and PKR binding domains, and was likely the result of PKR inhibition. However pTRS1 also stimulated the total level of protein synthesis and translation directed by an HCMV 5’UTR in cells lacking PKR. Thus our results demonstrate that pTRS1 stimulates translation through both PKR-dependent and PKR-independent mechanisms.
Assessing the impact of cancer among Dutch non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivors compared with their American counterparts: a cross-national study: Impact of cancer of Dutch and American non-Hodgkin lymphoma survivors
Creators: name: Ganz, Patricia A.
name: Zimmerman, Sheryl
name: van de Poll-Franse, Lonneke V.
name: Oerlemans, Simone
name: Crespi, Catherine M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: To understand cultural differences in the impact of cancer (IOC), by (1) performing an independent psychometric evaluation of the Dutch version of the Impact of Cancer Scale version 2 (IOCv2) in a non-Hodgkin lymphoma (NHL) sample and (2) examining differences between Dutch and American NHL survivors in perceived impact of cancer and identify associations with socio-demographic and clinical characteristics.
Universal clustering of dark matter in phase space
Creators: name: Zavala, Jesus
name: Afshordi, Niayesh
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have recently introduced a novel statistical measure of dark matter clustering in phase space, the particle phase space average density ($P^2SAD$). In a two-paper series, we studied the structure of $P^2SAD$ in the Milky-Way-size Aquarius haloes, constructed a physically motivated model to describe it, and illustrated its potential as a powerful tool to predict signals sensitive to the nanostructure of dark matter haloes. In this letter, we report a remarkable universality of the clustering of dark matter in phase space as measured by $P^2SAD$ within the subhaloes of host haloes across different environments covering a range from dwarf-size to cluster-size haloes ($10^{10}-10^{15}$ M$_\odot$). Simulations show that the universality of $P^2SAD$ holds for more than 7 orders of magnitude, over a 2D phase space, covering over 3 orders of magnitude in distance/velocity, with a simple functional form that can be described by our model. Invoking the universality of $P^2SAD$, we can accurately predict the non-linear power spectrum of dark matter at small scales all the way down to the decoupling mass limit of cold dark matter particles. As an application, we compute the subhalo boost to the annihilation of dark matter in a wide range of host halo masses.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures, version published in MNRAS
title: Parità ed empowerment di genere: strumenti giuridici, programmi e politiche internazionali, regionali e nazionali
Creators: name: Carletti, Cristiana
name: Pagliuca, Mariella
Publisher: name: Roma TrE-Press
Year: 2020

description: Il Volume intende proporre una disamina del complesso apparato sistemico internazionale, inclusi gli organismi intergovernativi a vocazione regionale, e dell’avvio del processo di codificazione dei principi e delle fattispecie giuridiche per la protezione dei diritti delle donne e delle ragazze; particolare attenzione è riservata alle dinamiche negoziali che hanno visto gli Stati membri delle principali Organizzazioni internazionali – inclusa l’Italia – fornire il proprio contributo sulla scorta delle esperienze nazionali, per la definizione degli standard e la compilazione di politiche e strategie tesi al rafforzamento dei diritti e delle libertà di cui le donne e le ragazze oggi sono titolari, sulla scorta dell’approccio di gender mainstreaming e in funzione del potenziamento dell’empowerment di genere.
A relative trace formula for a compact Riemann surface
Creators: name: Martin, Kimball
name: McKee, Mark
name: Wambach, Eric
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We study a relative trace formula for a compact Riemann surface with respect to a closed geodesic $C$. This can be expressed as a relation between the period spectrum and the ortholength spectrum of $C$. This provides a new proof of asymptotic results for both the periods of Laplacian eigenforms along $C$ as well estimates on the lengths of geodesic segments which start and end orthogonally on $C$. Variant trace formulas also lead to several simultaneous nonvanishing results for different periods.
description: 35 pages. This version contains minor corrections to the published version. The only change to the main results is a modification of the constants in the final theorem and corollary
PREDATORY NEMATODES FROM THE DEEP-SEA - DESCRIPTION OF SPECIES FROM THE NORWEGIAN SEA, DIVERSITY OF FEEDING TYPES AND GEOGRAPHICAL-DISTRIBUTION
Creators: name: Jensen, P.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1992

description: Among one hundred and fourteen nematode species found from sediments of Voring plateau and adjacent deep sea plains in the Norwegian Sea, twelve are regarded as predatory as deduced from the structure of their buccal cavities and gut contents. Five new species are described, i.e. Subsphaerolaimus brevicauda sp. n., Sphaerolaimus kleini sp.n., Parasphaerolaimus antiae sp.n., Metasphaerolaimus gerlachi sp. n. and Pomponema koesterae sp. n. The male of M. crassicauda (Freudenhammer, 1975) and M. hamatus Gourbault and Boucher, 1981 is for the first described. Ceratosphaerolaimus Fadeeva, 1983 is synonymized with Metasphaerolaimus Gourbault and Boucher, 1981. The twelve species represent four feeding-types, and size differences of buccal cavities indicate a prey-size selection between species of the feeding types. Most studies reporting predatory nematodes from the deep-sea benthos are from the Atlantic Ocean : twenty-seven species have been identified of which seventeen belong to the Sphaerolaimidae, mainly from the East Atlantic. Dispersal mediated by near bottom currents in the nepheloid bottom layer may explain the wide occurrence of four Norwegian Sea species in the East Atlantic deep-sea; i.e. M. crassicauda in the Iberian Deep Sea, and M. hamatus, Halichoanolaimus minor Ssaweljev, 1912 and Syringolaimus renaudae Gourbault and Vincx, 1985 off South Africa.
On G-Fano threefolds
Creators: name: Prokhorov, Yuri
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 14E07, 14J45, 14J30, 14J50, 14E07, 14E30

description: We study Fano threefolds with~terminal singularities admitting a "minimal" action of a finite group. We prove that under certain additional assumptions such a variety does not contain planes. We also obtain an upper bounds of the number of singular points of certain Fano threefolds with~terminal factorial singularities.
description: 17 pages
STUDY ON INTRASPECIFIC VARIATION AMONG BRYOZOA - POPULATION OF THE SUPERSPECIES ALCYONIDIUM-POLYOUM (HASSALL, 1841) IN ANGLE (WALES)
Creators: name: Dhondt, J. L.
name: Goyffon, M.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1991

description: The electrophoretic study of a Welsh population, bound to Alcyonidium polyoum (Bryozoa, Ctenostomida), the taxonomic status of whichis debated, has conducted to consider it as prospecies, and to put up A. polyoum to a superspecies rank.
Support Service Use and Interest in Support Services among Distressed Family Caregivers of Lung Cancer Patients
Creators: name: Birdas, Thomas J.
name: Einhorn, Lawrence H.
name: Mosher, Catherine E.
name: Given, Barbara A.
name: Monahan, Patrick O.
name: Ostroff, Jamie S.
name: Champion, Victoria L.
name: Kesler, Kenneth A.
name: Jalal, Shadia I.
name: Hanna, Nasser
name: Okereke, Ikenna C.
name: Fakiris, Achilles J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: This study examined support service use and interest in support services among distressed family caregivers of patients recently entering a comprehensive cancer care facility.
Chiral Magnetic Effect and Anomalous Hall Effect in Antiferromagnetic Insulators with Spin-Orbit Coupling
Creators: name: Sekine, Akihiko
name: Nomura, Kentaro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: High Energy Physics - Lattice (hep-lat)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We search for dynamical magnetoelectric phenomena in three-dimensional correlated systems with spin-orbit coupling. We focus on the antiferromagnetic insulator phases where the dynamical axion field is realized by the fluctuation of the antiferromagnetic order parameter. It is shown that the dynamical chiral magnetic effect, an alternating current generation by magnetic fields, emerges due to the time dependences of the order parameter such as antiferromagnetic resonance. It is also shown that the anomalous Hall effect arises due to the spatial variations of the order parameter such as antiferromagnetic domain walls. Our study indicates that spin excitations in antiferromagnetic insulators with spin-orbit coupling can result in nontrivial charge responses. Moreover, observing the chiral magnetic effect and anomalous Hall effect in our system is equivalent to detecting the dynamical axion field in condensed matter.
description: 8 pages, 2 figures
Mechanisms underlying hemodynamic and neuroendocrine stress reactivity at different phases of the menstrual cycle
Creators: name: Gordon, Jennifer L.
name: Girdler, Susan S.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: This study examined the association of menstrual cycle phase with stress reactivity as well as the hormonal and neuroendocrine mechanisms contributing to cycle effects. Fifty-seven women underwent a modified Trier Social Stress Test during the early follicular, late follicular, and luteal phases of the menstrual cycle. Greater increases in cardiac index (CI) and greater decreases in vascular resistance index (VRI) during speech were observed in the luteal phase relative to other phases, while greater increases in epinephrine (EPI) was observed during the late follicular and luteal phases compared to the early follicular phase. Luteal phase estradiol predicted luteal EPI reactivity but not CI or VRI reactivity, while luteal phase EPI reactivity predicted luteal phase CI and VRI reactivity. Thus, cycle-related changes in EPI reactivity may be a stronger determinant of cycle effects on hemodynamic reactivity than sex hormones per se.
Aspects of epizoobiontic mollusc assemblages on Pinna shells. I. Composition and structure
Creators: name: COSENTINO, Andrea
name: GIACOBBE, Salvatore
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2007

description: From populations of Pinna nobilis and P. rudis in the Strait of Messina (Central Mediterranean), 11 individuals
 per species were sampled and the epizoobiontic molluscs investigated. Univariate indices of richness, biodiversity and equi-
 tability were assessed and compared with multivariate analyses to single out the epizoic patterns, their different specific
 composition and the biotic/abiotic factors potentially affecting them. Bathymetric level, species/size of basibionts, conch
 sculpture patterns and other secondary factors, such as the occurrence of shell fractures and algal covering, were investi-
 gated and/or tested as potentially discriminating agents. At last, rank-based matrices joined to functional guilds were
 employed to evaluate the species redundancy in these assemblages, and their trophic structure. Univariate diversity indices
 did not detect any evident discrimination but showed the early settlement of zoobiontic molluscs on Pinna individuals.
 Multivariate analyses supported the hypothesis of a gradual multi-species differentiation between the two basibionts, with
 P. nobilis zoobionts more abundant and less variant in species composition. Feeding guilds of the P. nobilis assemblage
 were in accordance with ephemeral epizoophytes, whilst P. rudis zoobionts showed a wider trophic spectrum in accordance
 with enduring epizoophytes.
TEMPERATURE AND SALINITY OF SEA-WATER OFF ROSCOFF FROM 1988 TO 1990
Creators: name: Dauvin, J. C.
name: Joncourt, M.
name: Birrien, J. L.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 1991

description: The temperature and the salinity of the sea water off Roscoff were measured bimonthly in a station located at 3,5 nautical miles of the coast line at 60 m depth. The results of surface and bottom measures are presented from 1988 to 1990. The mean temperatures and salinities of these three years are among the highest of the thirty last years.
Personalising Mobile Advertising Based on Users Installed Apps
Creators: name: Reps, Jenna
name: Aickelin, Uwe
name: Garibaldi, Jonathan
name: Damski, Chris
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Computers and Society (cs.CY)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Mobile advertising is a billion pound industry that is rapidly expanding. The success of an advert is measured based on how users interact with it. In this paper we investigate whether the application of unsupervised learning and association rule mining could be used to enable personalised targeting of mobile adverts with the aim of increasing the interaction rate. Over May and June 2014 we recorded advert interactions such as tapping the advert or watching the whole advert video along with the set of apps a user has installed at the time of the interaction. Based on the apps that the users have installed we applied k-means clustering to profile the users into one of ten classes. Due to the large number of apps considered we implemented dimension reduction to reduced the app feature space by mapping the apps to their iTunes category and clustered users based on the percentage of their apps that correspond to each iTunes app category. The clustering was externally validated by investigating differences between the way the ten profiles interact with the various adverts genres (lifestyle, finance and entertainment adverts). In addition association rule mining was performed to find whether the time of the day that the advert is served and the number of apps a user has installed makes certain profiles more likely to interact with the advert genres. The results showed there were clear differences in the way the profiles interact with the different advert genres and the results of this paper suggest that mobile advert targeting would improve the frequency that users interact with an advert.
description: IEEE International Conference of Data Mining: The 4th International Workshop on Data Mining for Service (DMS), 2014
A Church-Based Intervention to Change Attitudes about Physical Activity among Black Adolescent Girls: A Feasibility Study
Creators: name: Hu, Jie
name: Thompson, Wanda M.
name: Berry, Diane
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: To feasibility test a 12-week church-based physical activity intervention that was culturally sensitive, age- and gender specific directed at changing attitudes of Black adolescent girls to be more physically active.
Recruitment and Retention Strategies for a Community-Based Weight Management Study for Multi-Ethnic Elementary School Children and Their Parents
Creators: name: McMurray, Robert G.
name: Berry, Diane C.
name: Schwartz, Todd A.
name: Hall, Emily Gail
name: Skelly, Anne H.
name: Neal, Madeline
name: Smith-Miller, Cherie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: This paper describes successful recruitment and retention strategies for a community-based weight management study in two school districts in North Carolina. Recruitment and retention on both district and school levels and child and parent levels are discussed.
Supplementary Material from Information processing by endoplasmic reticulum stress sensors
Creators: name: Stroberg, Wylie
name: Eilertsen, Justin
name: Schnell, Santiago
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Biochemistry
subject: 60114 Systems Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: 10202 Biological Mathematics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This Supplementary Material consists of three sections. Section 1 details the numerical calculation of the mutual information and the procedure used to determine parameters that maximize the mutual information. Section 2 provides a detailed derivation of the low-noise approximations for the conditional activation probability distributions. Lastly, Section 3 presents numerical calculations showing that the results presented in the manuscript are robust to parameter choice.
Supplementary Material from Polycomb protein RYBP activates transcription factor Plagl1 during in vitro cardiac differentiation of mouse embryonic stem cells
Creators: name: Henry, Surya
name: Kokity, Lilla
name: Pirity, Melinda Katalin
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2023
Subjects: Cell Biology

description: RING1 and YY1 binding protein (RYBP) is primarily known to function as a repressor being a core component of the non-canonical polycomb repressive complexes 1 (ncPRC1s). However, several ncPRC1-independent functions of RYBP have also been described. We previously reported that RYBP is essential for mouse embryonic development and that Rybp null mutant embryonic stem cells cannot form contractile cardiomyocytes (CMCs) in vitro. We also showed that PLAGL1, a cardiac transcription factor, which is often mutated in congenital heart diseases (CHDs), is not expressed in Rybp-null mutant CMCs. However, the underlying mechanism of how RYBP regulates Plagl1 expression was not revealed. Here, we demonstrate that RYBP cooperated with NKX2-5 to transcriptionally activate the P1 and P3 promoters of the Plagl1 gene and that this activation is ncPRC1-independent. We also show that two non-coding RNAs residing in the Plagl1 locus can also regulate the Plagl1 promoters. Finally, PLAGL1 was able to activate Tnnt2, a gene important for contractility of CMCs in transfected HEK293 cells. Our study shows that the activation of Plagl1 by RYBP is important for sarcomere development and contractility, and suggests that RYBP, via its regulatory functions, may contribute to the development of CHDs.
Medicaid Outpatient Utilization for Waterborne Pathogenic Illness following Hurricane Floyd
Creators: name: Domino, Marisa Elena
name: Setzer, Christian
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: OBJECTIVES: Flooding provides an opportunity for epidemics of waterborne viral, protozoan, or bacterial diseases to develop in affected areas. Epidemic levels of disease may translate into higher than average levels of health services use, depending in part on help-seeking behaviors. The authors investigated whether the flooding that occurred as a result of Hurricane Floyd in September 1999 was associated with an increase in outpatient visits for waterborne diseases among Medicaid enrollees in eastern North Carolina. METHODS: Using a difference-in-differences estimation technique, the authors examined the change in outpatient visits by North Carolina Medicaid enrollees for selected waterborne diseases following the hurricane. The study focused on counties with high concentrations of hog farming that were mildly/moderately or severely affected by the hurricane, using unaffected counties and the year before the hurricane as controls. RESULTS: Small increases in Medicaid-covered outpatient visits were found in severely affected counties for two of the six pathogens selected for analysis, relative to unaffected counties. Larger increases in visits were found for nonspecific intestinal infections in both severely and moderately affected counties following the hurricane, relative to unaffected counties. CONCLUSIONS: The large increase in visits for ill-defined intestinal infection is noteworthy. The relative lack of increase in visits with specific pathogenic diagnoses may be attributable, at least in part, to a number of factors, including incomplete diagnostic information provided by treating clinicians, low treatment-seeking behavior, and use of non-Medicaid-funded emergency services.
Supplementary Materials from Stable isotope analyses reveal unique trophic role of reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi) at a remote coral reef.
Creators: name: Peel, Lauren R.
name: Daly, Ryan
name: Daly, Clare A. Keating
name: Stevens, Guy M. W.
name: Collin, Shaun P.
name: Meekan, Mark G.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Tables 1-3 and Supplementary Figures 1 and 2
Parent population of flat-spectrum radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies
Creators: name: Berton, Marco
name: Foschini, Luigi
name: Ciroi, Stefano
name: Cracco, Valentina
name: La Mura, Giovanni
name: Lister, Matthew L.
name: Mathur, Smita
name: Peterson, Bradley M.
name: Richards, Joseph L.
name: Rafanelli, Piero
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Flat-spectrum radio-loud Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) are a recently discovered class of $γ$-ray emitting Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), that exhibit some blazar-like properties which are explained with the presence of a relativistic jet viewed at small angles. When blazars are observed at larger angles they appear as radio-galaxies, and we expect to observe an analogue parent population for beamed NLS1s. However, the number of known NLS1s with the jet viewed at large angles is not enough. Therefore, we tried to understand the origin of this deficit. Current hypotheses about the nature of parent sources are steep-spectrum radio-loud NLS1s, radio-quiet NLS1s and disk-hosted radio-galaxies. To test these hypotheses we built three samples of candidate sources plus a control sample, and calculated their black hole mass and Eddington ratio using their optical spectra. We then performed a Kolmogorov-Smirnov statistical test to investigate the compatibility of our different samples with a beamed population. Our results indicate that, when the inclination angle increases, a beamed source appears as a steep-spectrum radio-loud NLS1, or possibly even as a disk-hosted radio-galaxy with low black hole mass and high Eddington ratio. Further investigations, involving larger complete samples and observations at radio frequency, are needed to understand the incidence of disk-hosted radio-galaxies in the parent population, and to assess whether radio-quiet NLS1s can play a role, as well.
description: 12 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication by Astronomy and Astrophysics
Development and Implementation of a Public Health Workforce Training Needs Assessment Survey in North Carolina
Creators: name: Alexander, Janet G.
name: Davis, Mary V.
name: Rybka, Tara P.
name: Harrison, Lisa Macon
name: Rothney, Erin E.
name: Alexander, Lorraine K.
name: Stevens, Rachel H.
name: MacDonald, Pia D.M.
name: Cline, J. Steven
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Assessing the training needs of local public health workers is an important step toward providing appropriate training programs in emergency preparedness and core public health competencies. The North Carolina Public Health Workforce Training Needs Assessment survey was implemented through the collaboration of several organizations, including the North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness at the North Carolina Institute for Public Health, the outreach and service unit of the University of North Carolina School of Public Health, the Office of Public Health Preparedness and Response in the North Carolina Division of Public Health Epidemiology Section, and local health departments across the state.
2.5D global-disk oscillation models of the Be shell star ζ Tauri I. Spectroscopic and polarimetric analysis
Creators: name: Escolano, C.
name: Carciofi, A. C.
name: Okazaki, A. T.
name: Rivinius, T.
name: Baade, D.
name: Stefl, S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. Various Be stars exhibit intensity variations of the violet and red emission peaks in their HI lines observed in emission. This so-called $V/R$ phenomenon is usually explained by the precession of a one-armed spiral density perturbation in the circumstellar disk. That global-disk oscillation scenario was confirmed, both observationally and theoretically, in the previous series of two papers analyzing the Be shell star ζ Tauri. The vertically averaged (2D) global-disk oscillation model used at the time was able to reproduce the $V/R$ variations observed in Hα, as well as the spatially resolved interferometric data from AMBER/VLTI. Unfortunately, that model failed to reproduce the $V/R$ phase of Br15 and the amplitude of the polarization variation, suggesting that the inner disk structure predicted by the model was incorrect. Aims. The first aim of the present paper is to quantify the temporal variations of the shell-line characteristics of ζ Tauri. The second aim is to better understand the physics underlying the $V/R$ phenomenon by modeling the shell-line variations together with the $V/R$ and polarimetric variations. The third aim is to test a new 2.5D disk oscillation model, which solves the set of equations that describe the 3D perturbed disk structure but keeps only the equatorial (i.e., 2D) component of the solution. This approximation was adopted to allow comparisons with the previous 2D model, and as a first step toward a future 3D model. Results. The new 2.5D formalism improves the agreement with the observed $V/R$ variations of Hα and Br15, under the proviso that a large value of the viscosity parameter, α = 0.8, be adopted. Nonetheless, it remains challenging for the models to reproduce consistently the amplitude and the average level of the polarization data, whatever formalism is adopted.
description: 14 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables
Effect of Release from Prison and Re-Incarceration on the Viral Loads of HIV-Infected Individuals
Creators: name: Wohl, David A.
name: Tien, Hsiao-Chuan
name: Stewart, Paul
name: Golin, Carol E.
name: Stephenson, Becky L.
name: Kaplan, Andrew H.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of release from prison and subsequent re-incarceration on the viral loads of HIV-infected individuals receiving highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). METHODS: Fifteen re-incarcerated HIV-infected prisoners on HAART were identified from a retrospective cohort of HIV-infected prison inmates released from January 1, 1997, to August 31, 1999. The re-incarcerated prisoners were matched (1:2) to 30 HIV-infected incarcerated prisoners on HAART who remained incarcerated during the re-incarcerated participants' release time period. The outcomes measured were plasma HIV RNA levels, CD4+ lymphocyte counts, percentage of re-incarcerated and incarcerated participants with plasma HIV RNA levels <400 copies/mL, and the median change in plasma HIV RNA levels of the re-incarcerated and incarcerated participants at the end of the study. RESULTS: At the beginning of the study, 8/15 re-incarcerated participants had plasma HIV RNA levels <400 copies/mL, compared with 15/30 incarcerated participants. At the end of the study, only three of those eight re-incarcerated participants had plasma HIV RNA levels <400 copies/mL, compared with 14/15 incarcerated participants (p=0.0086). The median change in plasma HIV RNA levels of the re-incarcerated participants was 1.29 log10 copies/mL (interquartile range 0.04 to 1.70), compared with -0.03 log10 copies/mL (interquartile range -0.65 to 0.09) in the incarcerated participants (p=0.0183). CONCLUSIONS: Release from prison was associated with a deleterious effect on virological and immunological outcomes. These data suggest that comprehensive discharge planning efforts are required to make certain that HIV-infected inmates receive access to quality care following incarceration.
SUPP_INFORMATION.docx
Creators: name: Varona, Luis
name: Gonzalez-Recio, Oscar
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Animal reproduction and breeding

description: R code for the calculation of Figures 2 and 3 of the manuscript:
 Invited review: Recursive models in animal breeding: Interpretation, limitations, and extensions L. Varona and O. González-Recio (2023) https://doi.org/10.3168/jds.2022-22578
Enrollment of Racial/Ethnic Minorities in NIAID-Funded Networks of HIV Vaccine Trials in the United States, 1988 to 2002
Creators: name: Sullivan, Patrick S.
name: Counts, George W.
name: Katzman, Joanna
name: Djomand, Gaston
name: diTommaso, Dante
name: Koblin, Beryl A.
name: Hudgens, Michael G.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this study was to analyze enrollment of racial/ethnic minorities in Phase I and Phase II HIV vaccine trials in the U.S. conducted by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)-funded networks from 1988 to 2002. METHODS: A centralized database was searched for all NIAID-funded networks of HIV vaccine trial enrollment data in the U.S. from 1988 through 2002. The authors reviewed data from Phase I or Phase II preventive HIV vaccine trials that included HIV-1 uninfected participants at low to moderate or high risk for HIV infection based on self-reported risk behaviors. Of 66 identified trials, 55 (52 Phase I, 3 Phase II) met selection criteria and were used for analyses. Investigators extracted data on participant demographics using statistical software. RESULTS: A total of 3,731 volunteers enrolled in U.S. NIAID-funded network HIV vaccine trials from 1988 to 2002. Racial/ethnic minority participants represented 17% of the overall enrollment. By pooling data across all NIAID-funded networks from 1988 to 2002, the proportion of racial/ethnic minority participants was significantly greater (Fisher's exact test p-value < 0.001) in Phase II trials (278/1,061 or 26%) than in Phase I trials (347/2,670 or 13%). By generalized estimating equations, the proportion of minorities in Phase I trials increased over time (p = 0.017), indicating a significant increase in racial/ethnic minority participants from 1988 to 2002. CONCLUSIONS: There has been a gradual increase in racial/ethnic minority participation in NIAID-funded network HIV vaccine trials in the U.S. since 1988. In the light of recent efficacy trial results, it is essential to continue to increase the enrollment of diverse populations in HIV vaccine research.
Syllidae (Polychaeta) from Lebanon with two new reports for the Mediterranean Sea
Creators: name: AGUADO, María Teresa
name: SAN MARTÍN, Guillermo
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2007

description: A collection of 24 samples from Lebanon (Eastern Mediterranean Sea) was studied yielding a number of 27
 identified species. Two of them: Exogone breviantennata Hartmann-Schröder, 1959 and Syllis bella (Chamberlin, 1919) are
 new reports for the Mediterranean Sea. One more species, Inermosyllis balearica (San Martín, 1982) is a new report for
 the Eastern area. Another species Syllis cf. mayeri has been found but its identification is not completely certain. Similarities
 and differences with Syllis mayeri Musco & Giangrande, 2005 are exposed. A discussion about possible migration
 explanations to the presence in the Mediterranean of these species is included.
Supplementary Materials from Stable isotope analyses reveal unique trophic role of reef manta rays (Mobula alfredi) at a remote coral reef
Creators: name: Peel, Lauren R.
name: Daly, Ryan
name: Daly, Clare A. Keating
name: Stevens, Guy M. W.
name: Collin, Shaun P.
name: Meekan, Mark G.
Publisher: name: The Royal Society
Year: 2019
Subjects: subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Supplementary Tables 1-3 and Supplementary Figures 1 and 2
Team Epi-Aid: Graduate Student Assistance with Urgent Public Health Response
Creators: name: MacDonald, Pia D.M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Team Epi-Aid provides graduate students with practical public health experience through participation in outbreak investigations and other applied projects with state and local health departments in North Carolina. It is an initiative of the North Carolina Center for Public Health Preparedness in the North Carolina Institute for Public Health at the University of North Carolina School of Public Health. The program allows state and local health departments access to volunteers and technical expertise from the university when they need assistance. It requires close collaboration with state and county health departments. Team Epi-Aid provides the opportunity for integrated learning with students and faculty within the departments of the School of Public Health, and through recent expansion, within the schools of Medicine and Pharmacy. Orientations are conducted each semester and formal training is provided as needed. Team Epi-Aid has been popular, with 58 active student participants contributing 1,465 hours of service during the initiative's first 21 months.
Costs of a Smoking Cessation Counseling Intervention for Pregnant Women: Comparison of Three Settings
Creators: name: Ferguson, Janice N.
name: Melvin, Cathy L.
name: Ayadi, M. Femi
name: Adams, E. Kathleen
name: Pike, Joanne
name: Gaffney, Cecelia A.
name: Rivera, Carole C.
name: Rabius, Vance
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Although the rate of smoking among women giving birth in the United States has declined steadily from 19.5% in 1989 to 11.4% in 2002, it still far exceeds the Healthy People 2010 goal of 1%. The objective of this study was to estimate the costs of a recommended five-step smoking cessation counseling intervention for pregnant women.
Smokers' Beliefs and Attitudes about Purchasing Cigarettes on the Internet
Creators: name: Kim, Annice E.
name: Ribisl, Kurt M.
name: Delnevo, Cristine D.
name: Hrywna, Mary
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Our objectives were to explore qualitatively how smokers find out about Internet cigarette sales and what factors motivate them to purchase cigarettes on-line, and to quantitatively describe the Internet cigarette purchasing behaviors and attitudes of Internet cigarette buyers.
title: Oprogramowanie do wyznaczania kształtu impulsu napięciowego zasilającego silnik BLDC wykorzystujące metodę poszukiwana kukułczego
Creators: name: Knypiński, Łukasz
name: Kuroczycki, Sebastian
name: Kurzawa, Milena
Publisher: name: Publishing House of Poznan University of Technology
Year: 2021

description: Poznan University of Technology Academic Journals. Electrical Engineering, 106, 17-29
Neutrino masses and cosmology with Lyman-alpha forest power spectrum
Creators: name: Palanque-Delabrouille, Nathalie
name: Yeche, Christophe
name: Baur, Julien
name: Magneville, Christophe
name: Rossi, Graziano
name: Lesgourgues, Julien
name: Borde, Arnaud
name: Burtin, Etienne
name: LeGoff, Jean-Marc
name: Rich, James
name: Viel, Matteo
name: Weinberg, David
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present constraints on neutrino masses, the primordial fluctuation spectrum from inflation, and other parameters of the $Λ$CDM model, using the one-dimensional Ly$α$-forest power spectrum measured by Palanque-Delabrouille et al. (2013) from SDSS-III/BOSS, complemented by Planck 2015 cosmic microwave background (CMB) data and other cosmological probes. This paper improves on the previous analysis by Palanque-Delabrouille et al. (2015) by using a more powerful set of calibrating hydrodynamical simulations that reduces uncertainties associated with resolution and box size, by adopting a more flexible set of nuisance parameters for describing the evolution of the intergalactic medium, by including additional freedom to account for systematic uncertainties, and by using Planck 2015 constraints in place of Planck 2013. Fitting Ly$α$ data alone leads to cosmological parameters in excellent agreement with the values derived independently from CMB data, except for a weak tension on the scalar index $n_s$. Combining BOSS Ly$α$ with Planck CMB constrains the sum of neutrino masses to $\sum m_ν< 0.12$ eV (95\% C.L.) including all identified systematic uncertainties, tighter than our previous limit (0.15 eV) and more robust. Adding Ly$α$ data to CMB data reduces the uncertainties on the optical depth to reionization $τ$, through the correlation of $τ$ with $σ_8$. Similarly, correlations between cosmological parameters help in constraining the tensor-to-scalar ratio of primordial fluctuations $r$. The tension on $n_s$ can be accommodated by allowing for a running ${\mathrm d}n_s/{\mathrm d}\ln k$. Allowing running as a free parameter in the fits does not change the limit on $\sum m_ν$. We discuss possible interpretations of these results in the context of slow-roll inflation.
description: 24 pages, 10 figures, change in notation for running of scalar index to make it compatible with that of Planck, article accepted for publication in JCAP
Stages of development, from first cleavage to hatching, of an Echinoderes (Phylum Kinorhyncha: Class Cyclorhagida)
Creators: name: KOZLOFF, Eugene N.
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2007

description: The first, second and third cleavages of an egg of Echinoderes kozloffi are essentially equal. Subsequent
 cleavages lead to the production of an embryo with three layers of cells. One layer, consisting of 10 cells, separates a
 rosette-like arrangement of 8 cells from a less symmetrical layer of about 16 cells. Soon there are two contiguous rosette-
 like layers of 8 cells, two middle layers of 10 cells, and numerous cells in two other layers on the opposite side. After this,
 rapid divisions result in the formation of an apparently solid embryo that appears not to have a blastopore or conspicuous
 internal cavity. A dense central mass of cells destined to give rise to most of the digestive tract becomes distinct, however,
 and is interpreted to consist of endoderm; at this stage the embryo is therefore considered to be a stereogastrula. Embryonic
 mesoderm has not been identified. After the embryo elongates and bends on itself, the rectum is visible. The formation of
 the oral cone and the rest of segment 1 of the fully developed juvenile takes place in the inverted position and has not been
 observed. What is known of early development of Echinoderes is compared briefly with that of other invertebrates with
 similar larval or adult characters.
Schizoretepora hassi sp. nov. (Bryozoa: Phidoloporidae) from Lebanon (Eastern Mediterranean) and reappraisal of Schizotheca serratimargo (Hincks, 1886)
Creators: name: HARMELIN, Jean-Georges
name: BITAR, Ghazi
name: ZIBROWIUS, Helmut
Publisher: name: Station Biologique de Roscoff (SBR)
Year: 2007

description: Schizoretepora hassi sp. nov., one of the most frequent bryozoans in shaded rocky habitats sampled along the
 coasts of Lebanon between 3 and 36 m depth, is described here. Its status as steno-endemic in the Levantine basin versus
 successful Erythraean immigrant is unresolved. Colonies erect and typically with a distinct abfrontal surface occupied by
 kenozooids, are variable in shape, from ramose with dichotomic branching to reteporiform. The great similarity of its
 autozooids and avicularia with those of the bilaminate Schizotheca serratimargo argues for classing the latter in the genus
 Schizoretepora.
Evaluation of Public Health Response to Hurricanes Finds North Carolina Better Prepared for Public Health Emergencies
Creators: name: Cline, J. Steven
name: Davis, Mary V.
name: MacDonald, Pia D.M.
name: Baker, Edward L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Reviews of state public health preparedness improvements have been primarily limited to measuring funds expenditures and achievement of cooperative agreement benchmarks. Such reviews fail to assess states' actual capacity for meeting the challenges they may face during an emergency, as evidenced by activities undertaken during the various phases of a disaster. This article examines North Carolina's public health preparedness and response performance during two hurricanes, Hurricane Floyd in 1999 and Hurricane Isabel in 2003, as well as capacity building activities in the intervening years. North Carolina created new infrastructures, enhanced laboratory capacity, and strengthened communications after Hurricane Floyd. These activities facilitated implementation of functional capabilities through effective centralized communication, command and control incident management, and a rapid needs assessment and medical surveillance during Hurricane Isabel. North Carolina continues to implement these capabilities in public health emergencies. Measuring and implementing functional capabilities during exercises or real events facilitates achievement of preparedness performance standards, goals, and objectives.
Esplorando la storia. Studi per Umberto Levra - Exploring History. Studies for Umberto Levra
Creators: name: Carassi, Marco
Publisher: name: Rivista di Storia dell'Università di Torino
Year: 2022

description: A group of historians offers to their master, colleague and friend Umberto Levra (1945-2021) the result of original researches mainly but not only about the Italian Risorgimento, that is to say the unification of Italy, concerning politics, institutions, personal dialogues and fierce disputes, charity, social and health assistance, use of history and strategies of historical museums communication, use for 19th century politics of Constantin’s roman imperial alliance between throne and Church and of medieval reciprocal influences among different ethnic groups installed in the same territories.
description: Rivista di Storia dell'Università di Torino, V. 11 N. 1 (2022)
Racially Disproportionate Admission Rates for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions in North Carolina
Creators: name: Njue, Christopher
name: Howard, Daniel L.
name: Jallah, Yhenneko
name: Hakeem, Farrukh B.
name: Carey, Timothy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: This study examines race variations in quality of care through the proxy of ambulatory care sensitive (ACS) conditions. Hospital admission rates for eight ACS conditions were examined for African American and white Medicare beneficiaries in North Carolina. Temporal variations for ACS were also examined.