cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
The North Carolina Physical Activity Policy Research Center: Making Connections with North Carolina Planners
Creators: name: Salvesen, David
name: Brown, Austin
name: Fesperman, Carrie
name: Evenson, Kelly R.
name: Rodríguez, Daniel A.
name: Aytur, Semra A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: Physical activity participation for youth and adults is suboptimal in North Carolina. There is growing interest among policy makers to promote physical activity, yet research in this area is limited. The North Carolina Physical Activity Policy Research Center was established in 2004 to conduct research on physical activity and policy. This cross-disciplinary center brings together faculty and researchers from the University of North Carolina School of Public Health and the College of Arts and Sciences. Current projects include understanding and documenting polices that affect walking and bicycling to school, trail development, and community planning decisions related to physical activity.
Covid 19 - A Mathematical Review
Creators: name: DATTA, JAYDIP
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: 111706 Epidemiology
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: 30799 Theoretical and Computational Chemistry not elsewhere classified
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences

description: In this Review I just point out only the Mathematical Methods of Analysis used my Publications . Like Exponential Series , Positive & Negative slope of a Linearity , Gaussiun distribution function in One dimension , Probability , Probability Density F ( x ) , LCAO study of Wave Function .
Book Review: Redesigning Cities: Principles, Practice, Implementation
Creators: name: Lewis, Jennifer
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2004

description: Redesigning Cities: Principles, Practice, Implementation, by Jonathan Barnett, FAICP, is intended as a cure-all to what ails today's built environment. Barnett explains that the problem with today's built environment is not due to substandard conditions such as inadequate plumbing or poor insulating materials. Instead, "the problem is in the public environment, in the way our homes and lives fit together" (27). The book provides solutions and historical context to a gamut of today's planning issues, from the decline of public space to urban sprawl to the concentration of poverty. The book also provides effective tools for building community and creating healthier, more vibrant cities.
Why Neurons Have Thousands of Synapses, A Theory of Sequence Memory in Neocortex
Creators: name: Hawkins, Jeff
name: Ahmad, Subutai
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Neurons and Cognition (q-bio.NC)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Neocortical neurons have thousands of excitatory synapses. It is a mystery how neurons integrate the input from so many synapses and what kind of large-scale network behavior this enables. It has been previously proposed that non-linear properties of dendrites enable neurons to recognize multiple patterns. In this paper we extend this idea by showing that a neuron with several thousand synapses arranged along active dendrites can learn to accurately and robustly recognize hundreds of unique patterns of cellular activity, even in the presence of large amounts of noise and pattern variation. We then propose a neuron model where some of the patterns recognized by a neuron lead to action potentials and define the classic receptive field of the neuron, whereas the majority of the patterns recognized by a neuron act as predictions by slightly depolarizing the neuron without immediately generating an action potential. We then present a network model based on neurons with these properties and show that the network learns a robust model of time-based sequences. Given the similarity of excitatory neurons throughout the neocortex and the importance of sequence memory in inference and behavior, we propose that this form of sequence memory is a universal property of neocortical tissue. We further propose that cellular layers in the neocortex implement variations of the same sequence memory algorithm to achieve different aspects of inference and behavior. The neuron and network models we introduce are robust over a wide range of parameters as long as the network uses a sparse distributed code of cellular activations. The sequence capacity of the network scales linearly with the number of synapses on each neuron. Thus neurons need thousands of synapses to learn the many temporal patterns in sensory stimuli and motor sequences.
description: Submitted for publication
A global meta-analysis on the biological impacts of climate change in subterranean ecosystems
Creators: name: Vaccarelli, Ilaria
name: Colado, Raquel
name: Sanchez-Fernandez, David
name: Galassi, Diana
name: Pallarés, Susana
name: Di Cicco, Mattia
name: Meierhofer, Melissa
name: piano, elena
name: Mammola, Stefano
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Life Sciences
subject: Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

description: Preregistration of research questions and data collection methods for an ongoing meta-analysis on the biological impacts of climate change in subterranean ecosystems. We are preregistering the study after having conducted a set of exploratory searches on the Web of Science aimed at assessing the feasibility of the study.
Anisotropic density fluctuations, plasmons, and Friedel oscillations in nodal line semimetal
Creators: name: Rhim, Jun-Won
name: Kim, Yong Baek
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Motivated by recent experimental efforts on three-dimensional semimetals, we investigate the static and dynamic density response of the nodal line semimetal by computing the polarizability for both undoped and doped cases. The nodal line semimetal in the absence of doping is characterized by a ring-shape zero energy contour in momentum space, which may be considered as a collection of Dirac points. In the doped case, the Fermi surface has a torus shape and two independent processes of the momentum transfer contribute to the singular features of the polarizability even though we only have a single Fermi surface. In the static limit, there exist two independent singularities in the second derivative of the static polarizability. This results in the highly anisotropic Friedel oscillations which show the angle-dependent algebraic power law and the beat phenomena in the oscillatory electron density near a charged impurity. Furthermore, the dynamical polarizability has two singular lines along $\hbarω= γp$ and $\hbarω= γp \sinη$, where $η$ is the angle between the external momentum $\vec{p}$ and the plane where the nodal ring lies. From the dynamical polarizability, we obtain the plasmon modes in the doped case, which show anisotropic dispersions and angle-dependent plasma frequencies. Qualitative differences between the low and high doping regimes are discussed in light of future experiments.
description: 11 pages, 6 figures, Minor revisions are made
A New Hurricane Protection Plan for North Carolina's Barrier Islands
Creators: name: Richardson, Craig
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1976

description: What are the chances coastal North Carolina will suffer a hurricane attack? What damages occur when this most dreaded of natural storms strikes? What existing actions are being used to address the hurricane problem? Is the program adequate? If not, what actions need to be included to insure protection of life, property, and the amenities so unique to the coastal environment? This study attempts to answer these questions for the beach communities located on the string of barrier islands stretching the distance of the North Carolina coast. First, an examination of hurricane occurrences is made to determine the probability of hurricane landfall; that analysis is followed by an assessment of damages to life and property by such events. Next, attention is focused on actions used to protect the barrier islands from hurricane attack. The report concludes with an analysis of the existing program and sets forth recommendations for a new hurricane policy and action plan for the local barrier island communities.
Clinical benefits and adverse effects of siwak (S. persica) practice on periodontal health
Creators: name: Ramli, Haslinda
name: Dom, Tuti
name: Said, Shahida
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Periodontics and Periodontology
subject: Medicine and Health Sciences
subject: Dentistry
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: clinical effect
subject: periodontal health
subject: siwak

description: In this project, we systematically review on wide range of literatures related to the method and siwak practice, and its effect on periodontal health.
Book Reviews
Creators: name: Edgecombe, Robert
name: Campbell, Amanda
name: Wooley, Megan
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Book reviews of the following: Urban Design and the Bottom Line: Optimizing the Return on Perception by Dennis Jerke, Douglas R. Porter, and Terry J. Lassar; A Paradise Built in Hell by Rebecca Solnit; Edible Estates: Attack on the Front Lawn by Fritz Haeg
Payment Patterns: Exploring data from gambling payment technology providers - ADDENDUM (3.28.2022)
Creators: name: Ghaharian, Kasra
name: Feldman, Alan
name: Abarbanel, Brett
name: Kraus, Shane
name: Bernhard, Bo
name: Shatley, Jennifer
name: Puranik, Piyush
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Other Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: data science
subject: gambling
subject: gambling research
subject: gambling studies
subject: machine learning

description: Addendum to >> Ghaharian, K., Feldman, A., Abarbanel, B., Kraus, S. W., & Bernhard, B. (2021, August 23). Payment Patterns: Exploring data from gambling payment technology providers (Study 1). https://doi.org/10.17605/OSF.IO/FM6RA
A review of low-power applied-field magnetoplasmadynamic thruster research and the development of an improved performance model
Creators: name: Balkenhohl, Jakob
name: Glowacki, Jakub
name: Rattenbury, Nicholas
name: Cater, John
Publisher: name: Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington
Year: 2023
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: AbstractNumerous thrust and voltage models for applied-field magnetoplasmadynamic thrusters (AF-MPDTs) exist, however, all have been formulated using data for conventionally high current AF-MPDTs. To address a perceived gap in knowledge about smaller thrusters, a review of low-power applied-field magnetoplasmadynamic thruster research and published thrust and voltage models is presented. Using available experimental data limited to a low-power high magnetic field strength regime, a database of pertinent physical and operational parameters is established and used in a comparative study to evaluate the accuracy of published performance models. Statistical analysis of the models was used to create a corrected low-power AF-MPDT performance model. When applied to the database, an improvement in model accuracy is achieved. It is found that AF-MPDTs in the low-power regime with high applied magnetic field strengths can present a feasible alternative to other electric propulsion methods. However, the resulting sensitivity of achievable performance to physical and operational parameters requires careful design and optimization for a given mission.
Additional file 1 of Growth dynamics of lung nodules: implications for classification in lung cancer screening
Creators: name: Ocaña-Tienda, Beatriz
name: Eroles-Simó, Alba
name: Pérez-Beteta, Julián
name: Arana, Estanislao
name: Pérez-García, Víctor M.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Space Science
subject: Medicine
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Cancer
subject: Plant Biology

description: Supplementary Material 1
Axes of Subordination of Biracial Individuals: Biracial identities and stereotypic dimensions of foreignness and superiority – Study 3
Creators: name: Garay, Maria
name: Remedios, Jessica
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Social Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: This study aims to examine whether ancestry shapes perceptions of Americanness/foreignness, inferiority/superiority, and phenotype.
Political populism from the fringe to the mainstream: A conceptual framework
Creators: name: Bešlin Milivoj
name: Dajč, Haris
name: Ehin, Piret
name: Nataša Jovanović Ajzenhamer
name: Kubik, Jan
name: Makarychev, Andrey
name: Mole, Richard
name: Pantelić, Nikola
name: Radulović, Mladen
name: Styczyńska, Natasza
name: Talving, Liisa
name: Vasiljevic, Maja
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2021
Subjects: comparative politics
Eastern European Studies
political parties
politics
populism
Former Yugoslavia
Euroscepticism
Western Balkans

description: POPREBEL Working Paper no. 4: Political populism from the fringe to the mainstream: A conceptual framework. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 822682. POPREBEL Working Paper series POPREBEL (Populist rebellion against modernity in 21st-century Eastern Europe: neo-traditionalism and neo-feudalism) is a large Horizon 2020-funded research project on the rise of populism in Central and Eastern Europe. The aim of the project is to describe the phenomenon, create a typology of its various manifestations, reconstruct trajectories of its growth and decline, investigate its causes, interpret its meanings, diagnose its consequences and propose policy solutions. This project has received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 822682.The POPREBEL consortium comprises six universities – UCL (co-ordinatinginstitution), University of Belgrade, Charles University, Corvinus University ofBudapest, Jagiellonian University and University of Tartu – and Edge ryders, a social enterprise. Contents 1. Introduction 2.Political populism 2.1 Varieties of populism in CE/SEE 2.2 The populist challenge from within the mainstream 2.3 Populists in power 2.4 Popular geopolitics and the cultural grounds of populism 2.5 Looking beyond parties to understand populist politics
Adaptive NK Cell Memory and Nucleosome Interference: Two Tales of the Ly49 Receptor Family
Creators: name: Wight, Andrew
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Natural Killer Cells
Adaptive Immunity
Natural Killer Cell Memory
Cancer Vaccines
Nucleosome Positioning
Nucleosome Interference

description: Ly49 receptors are the canonical natural killer cell class-I major histocompatibility complex receptors expressed in mice. They have a well-defined role in natural killer cell self/non-self discrimination and in the developmental licensing of functional natural killer cells. In this thesis, I report two novel aspects of Ly49 receptor biology. First, I show that their expression may be regulated by specific nucleosome occupancy on AML-1 binding sites within the distal Ly49 promoter. This finding sheds light on a potential regulatory pathway that has thus far been unexplored in studies of the Ly49 receptor family, and highlights the Ly49 family as an ideal model system in which to study the impact of nucleosome occupancy in general. Second, I show that Ly49 receptors have a central and indispensable role in the emerging phenomenon known as adaptive natural killer cell memory. Natural killer cells have recently been observed displaying adaptive, long-lived, antigen specific memory responses comparable to T cell memory responses, but no explanatory mechanism has been discovered to describe how adaptive memory is possible in these ‘innate’ immune cells. Using Ly49-deficient mice, I show that the inhibitory, self-specific Ly49 receptors Ly49C and Ly49I are required for adaptive memory responses to chemical haptens or protein antigens. Moreover, I show that Ly49C/I binding capabilities are required during all stages of the memory response, as is antigen presentation in the context of class I major histocompatibility complex, again analogous to T cell memory responses. I present initial findings implicating these Ly49 receptors as key components of the antigen recognition process itself, and propose a mechanism based in evolutionarily ancient immunology to explain how this specificity could arise. Finally, I demonstrate that Ly49-dependent natural killer cell memory is capable of mediating powerful anti-cancer vaccination effects using an aggressive model of melanoma. Together, these findings in Ly49 family expression regulation and its functional role in adaptive NK cell responses open several new avenues of study in Ly49 receptor biology and natural killer cell immunology.
Book Review: The New Urban America: Growth and Politics in Sunbelt Cities
Creators: name: Rand, Lanier
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1981

description: In the second half of the seventies, national publications developed the concept of an increasingly significant and distinct region termed the "sunbelt." Using various geographical definitions, writers have discussed the Sunbelt's culture, politics, and rapid growth, usually in contrast to the relative decline in the formerly dominant North and industrial heartland. These discussions have focused on national issues, including sectional conflicts over federal resources, and changes in national political and cultural trends instigated by newly influential Sunbelt vanguards. The aggressive rising of the South into the consciousness of the nation has occasioned tomes of descriptive and speculative analysis in a variety of disciplines... "Southern fried chic," as one long-time student of the region describes it. In The New Urban America, Carl Abbott examines the physical and political development of rapidly growing middle-size and major cities in the Sunbelt. He defines the Sunbelt as "a pair of regions oriented toward the southeastern and southwestern corners of the United States that have shared similarities of economic development and demographic change since the 1940s." He first describes these similarities in the context of regional shifts in national growth, a fairly standard and predictable, though proficient, treatment of trends now well established. The main issues of the book then emerge: how has the experience of rapid population growth in Sunbelt cities affected their local politics? And, what are the added implications of changing patterns of land use and development within metropolitan areas? Here Abbott's work is much more provocative and the strengths of his arguments pull the earlier descriptions into context.
Eigenvalue analysis of an irreversible random walk with skew detailed balance conditions
Creators: name: Sakai, Yuji
name: Hukushima, Koji
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: An irreversible Markov-chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithm with skew detailed balance conditions originally proposed by Turitsyn et al. is extended to general discrete systems on the basis of the Metropolis-Hastings scheme. To evaluate the efficiency of our proposed method, the relaxation dynamics of the slowest mode and the asymptotic variance are studied analytically in a random walk on one dimension. It is found that the performance in irreversible MCMC methods violating the detailed balance condition is improved by appropriately choosing parameters in the algorithm.
description: 14 pages, 6 figures
Resolved gas cavities in transitional disks inferred from CO isotopologues with ALMA
Creators: name: van der Marel, Nienke
name: van Dishoeck, Ewine F.
name: Bruderer, Simon
name: Andrews, Sean M.
name: Pontoppidan, Klaus M.
name: Herczeg, Greg J.
name: van Kempen, Tim
name: Miotello, Anna
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Transitional disks around young stars are promising candidates to look for recently formed, embedded planets. Planet-disk interaction models predict that planets clear a gap in the gas while trapping dust at larger radii. Other physical mechanisms could be responsible for cavities as well. Previous observations have revealed that gas is still present inside these cavities, but the spatial distribution of this gas remains uncertain. We present high spatial resolution observations with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA) of 13CO and C18O lines of four well-studied transitional disks. The observations are used to set constraints on the gas surface density, specifically cavity size and density drop inside the cavity. The physical-chemical model DALI is used to analyze the gas images of SR21, HD135344B, DoAr44 and IRS48. The main parameters of interest are the size, depth and shape of the gas cavity. CO isotope-selective photodissociation is included to properly constrain the surface density in the outer disk from C18O emission. The gas cavities are up to 3 times smaller than those of the dust in all four disks. Model fits indicate that the surface density inside the gas cavities decreases by a factor of 100-10000 compared with the surface density profile derived from the outer disk. A comparison with an analytical model of gap depths by planet-disk interaction shows that the disk viscosities are likely low, with a<1E-3 for planet masses <10 MJup. The resolved measurements of the gas and dust in transition disk cavities support the predictions of models that describe how planet-disk interactions sculpt gas disk structures and influence the evolution of dust grains. These observed structures strongly suggest the presence of giant planetary companions in transition disk cavities, although at smaller orbital radii than is typically indicated from the dust cavity radii alone.
description: Accepted by A&A; version after language-editing
Phenomenology of transverse spin: past, present and future
Creators: name: Boglione, Mariaelena
name: Prokudin, Alexei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We summarize the most significant aspects in the study of transverse spin phenomena over the last few decades, focusing on Semi-Inclusive Deep Inelastic Scattering processes and hadronic production in $e^+e^-$ annihilations. The phenomenology of transverse momentum dependent distribution and fragmentation functions will be reviewed in an in-depth analysis of the most recent developments and of the future perspectives.
description: 20 pages, 21 figures, one comment and two references added
Robust Classification of Head Pose from Low Resolution Images Under Various Lighting Condition
Creators: name: Khaki, Mohammad
Publisher: name: Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa
Year: 2017
Subjects: Head Pose Classification
Gaze Direction
Appearance Template Method
Unconstrained Classification
Digital Out-Of-Home Advertising

description: Companies have long been interested in gauging the customer’s level of interest in their advertisements. By analyzing the gaze direction of individuals viewing a public advertisement, we can infer their level of engagement. Head pose detection allows us to deduce pertinent information about gaze direction. Using video sensors, machine learning methods, and image processing techniques, information pertaining to the head pose of people viewing advertisements can be automatically collected and mined. We propose a method for the coarse classification of head pose from low-resolution images in crowded scenes captured through a single camera and under different lighting conditions. Our method improves on the technique described in [1]; we introduce several modifications to the latter scheme to improve classification accuracy. First, we devise a mechanism that uses a cascade of three binary Support Vector Machines (SVM) classifiers instead of a single multi-class classifier. Second, we employ a bigger dataset for training by combining eight publicly available databases. Third, we use two sets of appearance features, Similarity Distance Map (SDM) and Gabor Wavelet (GW), to train the SVM classifiers. The scheme is tested with cross validation using the dataset and on videos we collected in a lab experiment. We found a significant improvement in the results achieved by the proposed method over existing schemes, especially for video pose classification. The results show that the proposed method is more robust under varying light conditions and facial expressions and in the presences of facial accessories compared to [1].
Areawide Water Quality: The 208 Planning Experience
Creators: name: Moreau, David
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1976

description: Of the many changes brought about by passage of the amendments to the Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (Public Law 92-500), the one having the greatest potential impact on urban planning is Section 208. This Section calls for areawide water quality management in all regions exhibiting complex water quality problems caused by urban and industrial concentrations. Provisions of Section 208 afford oppor­tunities to achieve economies of scale and consistency of management plans among the several political jurisdictions in metropolitan areas; they broaden the scope of water pollution control to embrace urban storm water runoff and nonpoint sources of pollution from agriculture, forestry, construction, and other activities; and they significantly expand the range of management techniques to include regulatory programs at the areawide level and, if necessary, land use controls. The purpose of this paper is to describe the basin-level planning environment within which areawide planning takes place. the current status of the program, and the planning process as it was developed for the Research Triangle of North Carolina, the first area in the United States designated and funded under the present legislation.
Population—A Key Component of Planning Education for Developing Countries
Creators: name: Lacey, Linda
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1988

description: During the next 20 years, much of the developing world will undergo significant demographic changes, such as population growth and urbanization. The effects of these changes can already be seen in many areas of Latin America, East Asia and especially Africa. This article suggests how to redesign population studies to provide planners with a framework for understanding the complex interrelationships between demographic factors and development. The commentary which follows provides an example of how the author and her colleagues are implementing such a program at DCRP.
Diritti umani, criminalità organizzata e terrorismo di stato
Creators: name: Calderon Cerna, Ceveriano
Publisher: name: Società e diritti
Year: 2020

description: L’autore delinea l’evoluzione generazionale dei diritti umani, la categorizzazione della criminalità organizzata ed il Terrorismo di Stato, mostrando sotterranei collegamenti tra fenomeni apparentemente distanti. Parole chiave: Diritti umani, Giustizia, Corruzione.
description: Società e diritti, V. 5 N. 9 (2020): I volti della giustizia
The precessing jets of 1E 1740.7-2942
Creators: name: Luque-Escamilla, Pedro L.
name: Marti, Josep
name: Martinez-Aroza, Josee
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Context. 1E 1740.7-2942 is believed to be one of the two prototypical microquasars towards the Galactic center region whose X-ray states strongly resemble those of Cygnus X-1. Yet, the bipolar radio jets of 1E 1740.7-2942 are very reminiscent of a radio galaxy. The true nature of the object has thus remained an open question for nearly a quarter of a century. Aims. Our main goal here is to confirm the Galactic membership of 1E 1740.7-2942 by searching for morphological changes of its extended radio jets in human timescales. This work was triggered as a result of recent positive detection of fast structural changes in the large-scale jets of its 'twin' GRS 1758-258. Methods. We carried out an in-depth exploration of the VLA public archives and fully recalibrated all 1E 1740.7-2942 extended data sets in the C configuration of the array. We obtained and analyzed matching beam radio maps for five epochs, covering years 1992, 1993, 1994, 1997 and 2000, with an angular resolution of a few arcseconds. Results. We clearly detected structural changes in the arcminute jets of 1E 1740.7-2942 on timescales of roughly a year, which set a firm distance upper limit of 12 kpc. Moreover, a simple precessing model was simultaneously fitted to the five observing epochs available. The observed changes in the jet flow are strongly suggestive of a precession period of ~1.3 years. Conclusions. The fitting of the precession model to the data yields a distance of ~5 kpc. This value, and the observed changes, rule out any remaining doubts about the 1E 1740.7-2942 Galactic nature. To our knowledge, this microquasar is the second whose jet precession ephemeris become available after SS433. This kind of information is relevant to the physics of compact objects, since the genesis of the precession phenomenon occurs very close to the interplay region between the accretion disk and the compact object in the system.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics
Detailed study of the Bootes field using 300-500 MHz uGMRT observations: Source Properties and radio--infrared correlations
Creators: name: Sinha, Akriti
name: Datta, Abhirup
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The dominant source of radio continuum emissions at low frequencies is synchrotron radiation, which originates from star-forming regions in disk galaxies and from powerful jets produced by active galactic nuclei (AGN). We studied the Bootes field using the upgraded Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope (uGMRT) at 400 MHz, achieving a central minimum off-source RMS noise of 35$μ$Jy beam$^{-1}$ and a catalogue of 3782 sources in $\sim6$ sq. degrees of the sky. The resulting catalogue was compared to other radio frequency catalogues, and the corrected normalised differential source counts were derived. We use standard multi-wavelength techniques to classify the sources in star-forming galaxies (SFGs), radio-loud (RL) AGN, and radio-quiet (RQ) AGN that confirm a boost in the SFGs and RQ\,AGN AGN populations at lower flux levels. For the first time, we investigated the properties of the radio--IR relations at 400\,MHz in this field. The $L_{\rm 400 MHz}$--$L_{\rm TIR}$ relations for SFGs were found to show a strong correlation with non-linear slope values of $1.10\pm0.01$, and variation of $q_{\rm TIR}$ with $z$ is given as, $q_{\rm TIR} = (2.19 \pm 0.07)\ (1+z)^{-0.15 \pm 0.08}$. This indicates that the non-linearity of the radio--IR relations can be attributed to the mild variation of $q_{\rm TIR}$ values with $z$. The derived relationships exhibit similar behaviour when applied to LOFAR at 150 MHz and also at 1.4 GHz. This emphasises the fact that other parameters like magnetic field evolution with $z$ or the number densities of cosmic ray electrons can play a vital role in the mild evolution of $q$ values.
description: 18 pages, 18 Figures; Accepted for publication in MNRAS
La Dichiarazione Universale dei Diritti dell’Uomo a settant’anni dalla approvazione.
Creators: name: Quiroz Vitale, Marco
Publisher: name: Società e diritti
Year: 2020

description: L’autore illustra i risultati di una ricerca esplorativa di tipo KOL (Knowledge and Opinion about Law) sulla concezione dei diritti umani degli studenti universitari italiani e stranieri iscritti nella università di Milano. La lista “lunga” dei diritti umani presente nella Dichiarazione Universale, è dalla maggior parte degli intervistati, considerata parte irrinunciabile della cultura giuridica in Italia e funge da “motore del cambiamento” orientato alla giustizia.
description: Società e diritti, V. 4 N. 8 (2019): Riflessioni sui diritti umani
The VMC Survey. XVIII. Radial dependence of the low-mass, 0.55--0.82 $M_\odot$ stellar mass function in the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae
Creators: name: Zhang, Chaoli
name: Li, Chengyuan
name: de Grijs, Richard
name: Bekki, Kenji
name: Deng, Licai
name: Zaggia, Simone
name: Rubele, Stefano
name: Piatti, Andrés E.
name: Cioni, Maria-Rosa L.
name: Emerson, Jim
name: For, Bi-Qing
name: Ripepi, Vincenzo
name: Marconi, Marcella
name: Ivanov, Valentin D.
name: Chen, Li
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We use near-infrared observations obtained as part of the {\sl Visible and Infrared Survey Telescope for Astronomy} (VISTA) Survey of the Magellanic Clouds (VMC), as well as two complementary {\sl Hubble Space Telescope} ({\sl HST}) data sets, to study the luminosity and mass functions as a function of clustercentric radius of the main-sequence stars in the Galactic globular cluster 47 Tucanae. The {\sl HST} observations indicate a relative deficit in the numbers of faint stars in the central region of the cluster compared with its periphery, for $18.75\leq m_{\rm F606W}\leq 20.9$ mag (corresponding to a stellar mass range of $0.55
description: 9 pages, 9 figures, accepted to publication in ApJ
The lifetime of the bound excited level in Ni$^-$
Creators: name: Kamińska, M.
name: Davis, V. T.
name: Hole, O. M.
name: Nascimento, R. F.
name: Chartakunchand, K. C.
name: Blom, M.
name: Björkhage, M.
name: Källberg, A.
name: Löfgren, P.
name: Reinhed, P.
name: Rosén, S.
name: Simonsson, A.
name: Thomas, R. D.
name: Mannervik, S.
name: Neill, P. A.
name: Thompson, J. S.
name: Schmidt, H. T.
name: Cederquist, H.
name: Hanstorp, D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The intrinsic lifetime of the upper level in the bound-bound 3d$^9$4s$^2$ $^2$D$_{3/2}$ $\rightarrow$ 3d$^9$4s$^2$ $^2$D$_{5/2}$ radiative transition in Ni$^-$ was measured to be 15.1 $\pm$ 0.4 s. The experiment was performed at cryogenic temperatures in one of the ion-beam storage rings of the DESIREE (Double ElectroStatic Ion Ring Experiment) facility at Stockholm University. The storage lifetime of the Ni$^-$ ion-beam was measured to be close to five minutes at a ring temperature of 13 K.
description: 12 pages, 5 figures
Oregon's Senate Bill 100: One State's Innovative Approach to the Protection of Farmland
Creators: name: Beatley, Timothy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 1982

description: The State of Oregon instituted in 1973, under Senate Bill 100, one of the most innovative and comprehensive land management systems in this country. While often described as state planning, the Oregon program in fact represents a unique partnership between state and locality; one which allows local governments flexibility in solving local land use problems, while at the same time protecting significant elements of statewide planning concern. The central foci of the Oregon program are its nineteen statewide planning goals, ranging in subject from housing to transportation, to environmental quality. The goals carry the weight of law, and each local government must prepare its comprehensive plan and implementing ordinances so that they are in conformance with them. A seven-member laybody, the Land Conservation and Development Commission (LCDC) , was created to oversee the statewide planning process, with its chief responsibility being to review all plans and ordinances for goal conformance. The commission has substantial enforcement powers, and is legally able to prevent or nullify local land use actions it deems inconsistent with the goals. From its beginnings, the Oregon program has had as a major focus the protection of agricultural land. Two of the statewide goals, the Agricultural Lands and Urbanization Goals (goals 3 and 14), and related statutory provisions, form the nexus of the farmland protection program. The Agricultural Lands goal is one of the more specific of the nineteen goals, and requires localities to inventory agricultural land, and to include within Exclusive Farm Use (EFU) zones all such land "suitable" for agricultural production. The goal further defines suitable agricultural land as that of predominantly SCS soil classes I through IV in western Oregon, and SCS classes I through IV in eastern Oregon. The provision thus requires the protection not only of prime farmland, but all land generally suitable for agricultural production.
A geometrical approach to measure irrationality
Creators: name: Morales-Almazan, Pedro
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Number Theory (math.NT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We present a geometric way of describing the irrationality of a number using the area of a circular sector $A(r)$. We establish a connection between this and the continued fraction expansion of the number, and prove bounds for $A(r)$ as $r\to\infty$ by describing the asymptotic behavior of the ratios of the denominators of the convergents.
Hypnosis - Difficult Turned Easy
Creators: name: Landry, Mathieu
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: We showed that by giving highly hypnotizable individuals a hypnotic suggestion to imagine specific visual information, they performed an objectively difficult perceptual task as if it were genuinely easy. This dramatic effect took place by simply asking them to envision oc- cluders (e.g., post-it notes) at strategic positions on the screen.
Solidarietà corrotta: come cresce la corruzione, come si logora il tessuto sociale
Creators: name: Crocetta, Christian
Publisher: name: Società e diritti
Year: 2020

description: Il tema della corruzione può essere affrontato da molteplici punti di vista, tuttavia, superando una visione strettamente giuridica, è possibile riflettere sull’antropologia della corruzione. L’Autore si interroga sulle ragioni diffusione di una cultura della corruzione, di una mentalità, di un modus operandi, di un atteggiamento etico, di un comportamento che produce male e induce altri al male, di un sistema che parte dall’interesse individuale e lì si arresta, dimentico di ogni dimensione di bene comune.
description: Società e diritti, V. 5 N. 9 (2020): I volti della giustizia
Globular Cluster Populations: Results Including S$^4$G Late-Type Galaxies
Creators: name: Zaritsky, Dennis
name: McCabe, Kelsey
name: Aravena, Manuel
name: Athanassoula, E.
name: Bosma, Albert
name: Comerón, Sébastien
name: Courtois, Helene M.
name: Elmegreen, Bruce G.
name: Elmegreen, Debra M.
name: Erroz-Ferrer, Santiago
name: Gadotti, Dimitri A.
name: Hinz, Joannah L.
name: Ho, Luis C.
name: Holwerda, Benne
name: Kim, Taehyun
name: Knapen, Johan H.
name: Laine, Jarkko
name: Laurikainen, Eija
name: Muñoz-Mateos, Juan Carlos
name: Salo, Heikki
name: Sheth, Kartik
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Using 3.6 and 4.5$μ$m images of 73 late-type, edge-on galaxies from the S$^4$G survey, we compare the richness of the globular cluster populations of these galaxies to those of early type galaxies that we measured previously. In general, the galaxies presented here fill in the distribution for galaxies with lower stellar mass, M$_*$, specifically $\log({\rm M}_*/{\rm M}_\odot) < 10$, overlap the results for early-type galaxies of similar masses, and, by doing so, strengthen the case for a dependence of the number of globular clusters per $10^9\ {\rm M}_\odot$ of galaxy stellar mass, T$_{\rm N}$, on M$_*$. For $8.5 < \log ({\rm M}_*/{\rm M}_\odot) < 10.5$ we find the relationship can be satisfactorily described as T$_{\rm N} = ({\rm M}_*/10^{6.7})^{-0.56}$ when M$_*$ is expressed in solar masses. The functional form of the relationship is only weakly constrained and extrapolation outside this range is not advised. Our late-type galaxies, in contrast to our early-types, do not show the tendency for low mass galaxies to split into two T$_{\rm N}$ families. Using these results and a galaxy stellar mass function from the literature, we calculate that in a volume limited, local Universe sample, clusters are most likely to be found around fairly massive galaxies (M$_* \sim 10^{10.8}$ M$_\odot$) and present a fitting function for the volume number density of clusters as a function of parent galaxy stellar mass. We find no correlation between T$_{\rm N}$ and large-scale environment, but do find a tendency for galaxies of fixed M$_*$ to have larger T$_{\rm N}$ if they have converted a larger proportion of their baryons into stars.
description: Accepted for publication in ApJ, 13 pages
title: The Human Insulin Debate: A Case Study of Contested Innovation in Medical Technology
Creators: name: Donovan, Grant B.
Publisher: name: Goldsmiths, University of London
Year: 2000

description: This thesis describes and analyses a case study of contested innovation in medical technology using actor network theory (ANT). As well as ANT other areas of sociology are drawn upon, such as the public understanding of science, and the sociologies of the body and consumption. The multiple approaches are used in order to develop ANT in novel directions. The particular medical innovation is the introduction and use of human insulin. Human insulin was first prescribed to diabetics in 1981, and was initially welcomed as a technological innovation that would reduce diabetic complications that are associated with animal insulin. However, as human insulin began to be used, the superiority of human insulin began to be questioned by some diabetics, doctors and care groups. One particular concern was the change in warning signs of approaching hypoglycaemia that were reported by some diabetics. Importantly, there was no agreement within the medical and scientific communities as to whether human insulin did cause negative effects. Data came from different types of documented evidence, including: scientific studies, medical reports, articles published by care groups and letters from diabetics. Aspects of ANT, and certain elaborations of ANT (e.g. the 'network body'), were used to explore this data. Thus, the thesis analyses some of the means by which human insulin was initially constructed as being superior to existing animal insulins, and how, later, actors began to marshal resources in order to redefine the meaning of human insulin. The thesis also describes how diabetics, aided by care groups, were able to have an influence on the insulin species they were to use by stressing the value of their experiential knowledge. Not only this, actors wanting to claim 'facticity' within the human insulin debate had to collectivize texts from both 'lay' and 'scientific' sources.
I diritti umani e il sesso "debole"
Creators: name: Bassin Diringbin, Sandrine
Publisher: name: Società e diritti
Year: 2020

description: Secondo Edward B. Tylor, la cultura, o civiltà, intesa nel suo ampio senso etnografico, è quell’insieme complesso che include il sapere, le credenze, l’arte, la morale, il diritto, il costume e ogni altra competenza o abitudine acquisita dall’uomo in quanto membro della società. Da questa impostazione è facile dedurre che la cultura è un punto cardine per ogni popolazione, poiché col trascorrere del tempo permette di definire un popolo, rendendolo unico e uguale solo a se stesso. Altrettanto fondamentale risulta essere la tradizione che consiste nel tramandare, di generazione in generazione, quelle usanze proprie della cultura di un popolo che - rappresentando un aspetto essenziale dell’identità culturale e appartenendo alla tradizione di alcune popolazioni - possono comportare una grave violazione dei diritti umani intesi nell’accezione più comune. In questo mio breve saggio cercherò invece di portare uno sguardo diverso sulle motivazioni che perpetuano tali pratiche analizzando come queste sono percepite dalle popolazioni che le tramandano. Sempre adottando una chiave sociologica, cercherò di proporre il concetto di « agency » come approccio e strumento centrale per un cambiamento più profondo e duraturo verso una comprensione, e forse anche un’accettazione, di questi « nostri » diritti umani da parte di quelle popolazioni di impronta squisitamente tradizionale.
description: Società e diritti, V. 4 N. 8 (2019): Riflessioni sui diritti umani
Diritti fondamentali tra monismo e pluralismo giuridico
Creators: name: Damiani Di Vergada Franzetti, Enrico
Publisher: name: Società e diritti
Year: 2020

description: L’autore propone una interpretazione della tematica dei diritti umani fondata sulla teoria del pluralismo giuridico.
description: Società e diritti, V. 4 N. 8 (2019): Riflessioni sui diritti umani