cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
title: Interactive visualization of orthologous genes and their annotations in plants
Creators: name: Tulpan, Dan
name: Léger, Serge
Publisher: name: National Research Council Canada
Year: 2015

description: Fully sequenced genomes of model organisms and staple crops such as Aegilops tauschii, Arabidopsis thaliana, Brachypodium distachyon, Brassica rapa, Hordeum vulgare, Oryza sativa, Sorghum bicolor, Triticum aestivum, Triticum urartu and Zea mays provide a unique opportunity to visually compare their gene order conservation via orthology. The conservation in gene order provides information about gene function and interactions of proteins that are encoded by these genes. While gene order is conserved and well preserved at phylogenetic distances for closely related plant species, it is low or lost during evolution in distantly related species. A good understanding and visual perspective of gene content and gene order similarities and differences across plant species allows researchers and experimentalists to design breeding strategies that lead to resilient next generation crops (e.g. current GM crops), to nutritionally-enhanced foods (e.g. golden rice) or to pharmaceuticals synthesization (e.g. somatotropin in tobacco plants).
description: The 3rd Current Opinion Conference on Plant Genome Evolution, September 6-8, 2015, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Is risk-taking propensity a familial vulnerability factor for alcohol use? An examination in two independent samples
Creators: name: Shankman, Stewart A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Research indicates that increased risk-taking propensity (RTP) is associated with higher alcohol use. There is also some evidence to suggest that it is not just a state factor or ‘scar,’ but instead a vulnerability factor. If this is the case, increased RTP should be evident in healthy individuals that are at risk for alcohol use. To date, few studies have examined whether RTP is a familial vulnerability factor and thus, the aim of the current study was to test whether RTP aggregates within families and if increased RTP is evident in biological family members at risk for alcohol use. Sample 1 included 87 biological, adult sibling pairs and Sample 2 included 111 biological mother and adolescent dyads (total N=396). All participants completed a behavioral measure of RTP and were assessed for alcohol use. Results in both samples were strikingly consistent. In Sample 1, RTP was correlated among siblings and greater frequency of proband alcohol use predicted greater sibling RTP, over and above sibling alcohol use. In Sample 2, RTP was correlated among mothers and their offspring and greater maternal alcohol use problems predicted greater adolescent RTP over and above adolescent substance use. Together, these findings suggest that RTP may be a familial vulnerability factor for alcohol use as it aggregates within families and is increased in relatives of individuals with higher levels of alcohol use.
Mango de Azúcar: a novel
Creators: name: Guberek, Daniel
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2024

description: Mango de Azúcar follows Sol Blumenstein, a twelfth grader in Miami who describes himself as a shapeshifter. Shapeshifting is a way for Sol to engage and communicate appropriately in any given situation. Sol’s shapeshifting begins to fail him after Pupila, an unfamiliar older relative from Bogotá, appears unexpectedly in his house. Her presence and stories bring into question Sol’s understanding of himself and his world. Tensions at school exacerbate Sol’s crisis. His public high school inequitably serves students from his working-and-middle-class immigrant neighborhood, the wealthy white city just east, and the impoverished Black neighborhood just west. Mango de Azúcar is Sol’s retrospective narration of his unraveling and reconstitution. Its narrative branches, roots, and decays as it explores Sol’s understanding of himself, his family, and his world. It asks questions such as: What stories do we tell, or refuse to tell, about ourselves? What forces shape those stories? And how do we reconcile the power we have with the power we don’t?
Social cognition, social competence, negative symptoms and social outcomes: Inter-relationships in people with schizophrenia
Creators: name: Harvey, Philip D.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Social deficits are common in people with schizophrenia and the treatment of deficits in social competence has been a long-time treatment strategy. However, negative symptoms and social cognitive deficits also contribute to social dysfunction. In this study, we examined the correlations between everyday social outcomes, a performance based measure of social competence, and performance on 8 different social cognition tests in 179 patients with schizophrenia. Social cognition, social competence, and motivation-related negative symptoms accounted for 32% of the variance in real-world social outcomes. In addition, two different social cognition tests, along with expression-related negative symptoms accounted for 32% of the variance in performance-based assessments of social competence. These data suggest that negative symptoms exert an important influence on social outcomes and social competence, but not social cognition, and that social cognition and social competence exert separable influences on real-world social outcomes. Improving social outcomes seems to require a multi-faceted approach which considers social cognition, social competence, and negative symptoms.
Gemini Planet Imager Observational Calibrations III: Empirical Measurement Methods and Applications of High-Resolution Microlens PSFs
Creators: name: Ingraham, Patrick
name: Ruffio, Jean-Baptiste
name: Perrin, Marshall D.
name: Wolff, Schuyler G.
name: Draper, Zachary H.
name: Maire, Jerome
name: Marchis, Franck
name: Fesquet, Vincent
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The newly commissioned Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) combines extreme adaptive optics, an advanced coronagraph, precision wavefront control and a lenslet-based integral field spectrograph (IFS) to measure the spectra of young extrasolar giant planets between 0.9-2.5 um. Each GPI detector image, when in spectral model, consists of ~37,000 microspectra which are under or critically sampled in the spatial direction. This paper demonstrates how to obtain high-resolution microlens PSFs and discusses their use in enhancing the wavelength calibration, flexure compensation and spectral extraction. This method is generally applicable to any lenslet-based integral field spectrograph including proposed future instrument concepts for space missions.
description: 10 pages, 6 figures. Proceedings of the SPIE, 9147-282 v2: reference added
The outcomes of remote administration of CAAST (Kallhoff et al., 2023)
Creators: name: Kallhoff, Lydia
name: Moua, Pang Tao
name: Salomon, Daniel
name: Wambaugh, Julie
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 320905
subject: Neurology and neuromuscular diseases
classificationCode: 460211
subject: Speech production

description: Purpose: This study was designed to examine the outcomes of Combined Aphasia and Apraxia of Speech Treatment (CAAST) administered remotely in terms of acquisition and generalization effects and to compare these effects to previous in-person CAAST studies and Response Elaboration Training (RET)/Modified-Response Elaboration Training (M-RET) benchmarks.Method: Multiple probe designs across participants and behaviors were employed with three speakers with chronic aphasia and apraxia of speech. Correct information units (CIUs) were the primary outcome measure to measure changes in language production. Percent consonants correct (PCC) was used as the secondary outcome measure to evaluate changes in speech sound accuracy. Production of CIUs was compared with existing benchmarks from Bunker et al.’s (2019) meta-analysis of previous RET/M-RET studies. In addition, both CIUs and PCC were compared with the most recent CAAST in-person studies.Results: All participants demonstrated substantial increases in CIUs for treated and untreated picture sets, comparable to outcomes of in-person CAAST administration. These language changes were maintained at posttreatment intervals for all participants. PCC also improved for all participants, with gains in articulatory accuracy being maintained posttreatment.Conclusions: Improvements in CIU production and PCC for all three participants were in keeping with results from Wambaugh et al. (2017). These findings provide additional support for the efficacy of CAAST and indicate that remote administration may be a viable alternative to in-person application.Supplemental Material S1. Pre- and posttreatment discourse samples.Supplemental Material S2. Instructions for rating interest in picture stimuli.Supplemental Material S3. Experimental stimuli – verbs.Supplemental Material S4. Combined Aphasia and Apraxia of Speech Treatment (CAAST) remote protocol.Supplemental Material S5. Example CAAST slides used in treatment.Kallhoff, L., Moua, P. T., Salomon, D., & Wambaugh, J. (2023). The outcomes of remote administration of Combined Aphasia and Apraxia of Speech Treatment: A single-subject experimental design study. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 32(5S), 2402–2417. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_AJSLP-22-00297Publisher Note: This article is part of the Special Issue: Select Papers From the 51st Clinical Aphasiology Conference.
CP violation and chiral symmetry breaking in hot and dense quark matter in presence of magnetic field
Creators: name: Chatterjee, Bhaswar
name: Mishra, Hiranmaya
name: Mishra, Amruta
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We investigate chiral symmetry breaking and strong CP violation effects on the phase diagram of strongly interacting matter in presence of a constant magnetic field. The effect of magnetic field and strong CP violating term on the phase structure at finite temperature and density is studied within a three flavor Nambu-Jona-Lasinio (NJL) model including the Kobayashi-Maskawa-t'Hooft (KMT) determinant term. This is investigated using an explicit variational ansatz for ground state with quark anti-quark pairs leading to condensates both in scalar and pseudoscalar channels. Magnetic field enhances the condensate in both the channels. Inverse magnetic catalysis for CP transition at finite chemical potential is seen for zero temperature and for small magnetic fields.
description: 14 pages with 13 Figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1101.0498
Pore-scale simulation of multicomponent multiphase reactive transport with dissolution and precipitation
Creators: name: Chen, Li
name: Kang, Qinjun
name: Tang, Qing
name: Robinson, Bruce A.
name: He, Ya-Ling
name: Tao, Wen-Quan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Multicomponent multiphase reactive transport processes with dissolution-precipitation are widely encountered in energy and environment systems. A pore-scale two-phase multi-mixture model based on the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is developed for such complex transport processes, where each phase is considered as a mixture of miscible components in it. The liquid-gas fluid flow with large density ratio is simulated using the multicomponent multiphase pseudo-potential LB model; the transport of certain solute in the corresponding solvent is solved using the mass transport LB model; and the dynamic evolutions of the liquid-solid interface due to dissolution-precipitation are captured by an interface tracking scheme. The model developed can predict coupled multiple physicochemical processes including multiphase flow, multicomponent mass transport, homogeneous reactions in the bulk fluid and heterogeneous dissolution-precipitation reactions at the fluid-solid interface, and dynamic evolution of the solid matrix geometries at the pore-scale. The model is then applied to a physicochemical system encountered in shale gas/oil industry involving multiphase flow, multicomponent reactive transport and dissolution-precipitation, with several reactions whose rates can be several orders of magnitude different at a given temperature. The pore-scale phenomena and complex interaction between different sub-processes are investigated and discussed in detail.
Structure and correlates of self-reported empathy in schizophrenia
Creators: name: Horan, William P.
name: Lee, Junghee
name: Reise, Steven P.
name: Green, Michael F.
name: Kern, Robert S.
name: Penn, David L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Research on empathy in schizophrenia has relied on dated self-report scales that do not conform to contemporary social neuroscience models of empathy. The current study evaluated the structure and correlates of the recently-developed Questionnaire of Cognitive and Affective Empathy (QCAE) in schizophrenia. This measure, whose structure and validity was established in healthy individuals, includes separate scales to assess the two main components of empathy: Cognitive Empathy (assessed by two subscales) and Affective Empathy (assessed by three subscales). Stable outpatients with schizophrenia (n=145) and healthy individuals (n= 45) completed the QCAE, alternative measures of empathy, and assessments of clinical symptoms, neurocognition, and functional outcome. Exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses provided consistent support for a two-factor solution in the schizophrenia group, justifying the use of separate cognitive and affective empathy scales in this population. However, one of the three Affective Empathy subscales was not psychometrically sound and was excluded from further analyses. Patients reported significantly lower Cognitive Empathy but higher Affective Empathy than controls. Among patients, the QCAE scales showed significant correlations with an alternative self-report empathy scale, but not with performance on an empathic accuracy task. The QCAE Cognitive Empathy subscales also showed significant, though modest, correlations with negative symptoms and functional outcome. These findings indicate that structure of self-reported empathy is similar in people with schizophrenia and healthy subjects, and can be meaningfully compared between groups. They also contribute to emerging evidence that some aspects of empathy may be intact or hyper-responsive in schizophrenia.
Characterizing the Cool KOIs. VI. H- and K-band Spectra of Kepler M Dwarf Planet-Candidate Hosts
Creators: name: Muirhead, Philip S.
name: Becker, Juliette
name: Feiden, Gregory A.
name: Rojas-Ayala, Bárbara
name: Vanderburg, Andrew
name: Price, Ellen M.
name: Thorp, Rachel
name: Law, Nicholas M.
name: Riddle, Reed
name: Baranec, Christoph
name: Hamren, Katherine
name: Schlawin, Everett
name: Covey, Kevin R.
name: Johnson, John Asher
name: Lloyd, James P.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present H- and K-band spectra for late-type Kepler Objects of Interest (the "Cool KOIs"): low-mass stars with transiting-planet candidates discovered by NASA's Kepler Mission that are listed on the NASA Exoplanet Archive. We acquired spectra of 103 Cool KOIs and used the indices and calibrations of Rojas-Ayala et al. to determine their spectral types, stellar effective temperatures and metallicities, significantly augmenting previously published values. We interpolate our measured effective temperatures and metallicities onto evolutionary isochrones to determine stellar masses, radii, luminosities and distances, assuming the stars have settled onto the main-sequence. As a choice of isochrones, we use a new suite of Dartmouth predictions that reliably include mid-to-late M dwarf stars. We identify five M4V stars: KOI-961 (confirmed as Kepler 42), KOI-2704, KOI-2842, KOI-4290, and the secondary component to visual binary KOI-1725, which we call KOI-1725 B. We also identify a peculiar star, KOI-3497, which has a Na and Ca lines consistent with a dwarf star but CO lines consistent with a giant. Visible-wavelength adaptive optics imaging reveals two objects within a 1 arc second diameter; however, the objects' colors are peculiar. The spectra and properties presented in this paper serve as a resource for prioritizing follow-up observations and planet validation efforts for the Cool KOIs, and are all available for download online using the "data behind the figure" feature.
description: Accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (ApJS). Data and table are available in the source
Technical Evaluation of HoloLens for Multimedia: A First Look
Creators: name: Liu, Yang
name: Dong, Haiwei
name: Zhang, Longyu
name: Saddik, Abdulmotaleb El
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: A recently released cutting-edge AR device, Microsoft HoloLens, has attracted considerable attention with its advanced capabilities. In this article, we report the design and execution of a series of experiments to quantitatively evaluate HoloLens' performance in head localization, real environment reconstruction, spatial mapping, hologram visualization, and speech recognition.
Sitting Posture Recognition Using a Spiking Neural Network
Creators: name: Wang, Jianquan
name: Hafidh, Basim
name: Dong, Haiwei
name: Saddik, Abdulmotaleb El
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Signal Processing (eess.SP)
subject: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
subject: Neural and Evolutionary Computing (cs.NE)
subject: FOS: Electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: To increase the quality of citizens' lives, we designed a personalized smart chair system to recognize sitting behaviors. The system can receive surface pressure data from the designed sensor and provide feedback for guiding the user towards proper sitting postures. We used a liquid state machine and a logistic regression classifier to construct a spiking neural network for classifying 15 sitting postures. To allow this system to read our pressure data into the spiking neurons, we designed an algorithm to encode map-like data into cosine-rank sparsity data. The experimental results consisting of 15 sitting postures from 19 participants show that the prediction precision of our SNN is 88.52%.
Learning to Estimate 3D Human Pose from Point Cloud
Creators: name: Zhou, Yufan
name: Dong, Haiwei
name: Saddik, Abdulmotaleb El
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (cs.CV)
subject: Multimedia (cs.MM)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: 3D pose estimation is a challenging problem in computer vision. Most of the existing neural-network-based approaches address color or depth images through convolution networks (CNNs). In this paper, we study the task of 3D human pose estimation from depth images. Different from the existing CNN-based human pose estimation method, we propose a deep human pose network for 3D pose estimation by taking the point cloud data as input data to model the surface of complex human structures. We first cast the 3D human pose estimation from 2D depth images to 3D point clouds and directly predict the 3D joint position. Our experiments on two public datasets show that our approach achieves higher accuracy than previous state-of-art methods. The reported results on both ITOP and EVAL datasets demonstrate the effectiveness of our method on the targeted tasks.
The incidence of eating disorders in a Danish register study: Associations with suicide risk and mortality
Creators: name: Thornton, Laura M.
name: Bulik, Cynthia M.
name: Petersen, Liselotte
name: Mortensen, Preben Bo
name: Larsen, Janne Tidselbak
name: Zerwas, Stephanie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Our aim was to characterize the incidence rates and cumulative incidence of anorexia nervosa (AN), bulimia nervosa (BN), and eating disorder not otherwise specified (EDNOS), and examine associations among eating disorder diagnoses, suicide attempts, and mortality. Individuals born in Denmark between 1989 and 2006 were included (N=966,141, 51.3% male). Eating disorders diagnoses (AN, Broad AN, BN, EDNOS) were drawn from the Danish Psychiatric Central Research Register (PCRR) and Danish National Patient Register (NPR). Suicide attempts and deaths were captured in the NPR, the PCRR, and the Danish Civil Registration System (CRS). In females, AN had a peak hazard at approximately age 15 years, BN at 22 years, and EDNOS had an extended peak that spanned 18 years to 22 years. Eating disorder diagnoses predicted a significantly higher hazard for death and suicide attempt compared with the referent of individuals with no eating disorders. In males, peak hazard for diagnosis was earlier than in females. The present study represents one of the largest and longest studies of eating disorder incidence and suicide attempts and death in both females and males. Eating disorders are accompanied by increased hazard of suicide attempts and death even in young adults.
Report on the GEMex project website
Creators: name: Trumpy, Eugenio
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2016
Subjects: geothermal energy
research roadmap
europe
website
non technical

description: This is to certify that the GEMex Project website (D2.2) is online and can be reached at the link http://www.gemex-h2020.eu
description: H2020
Exploring the gene–environment nexus in eating disorders
Creators: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2005

description: Early theories of eating disorders focused on aversive family and sociocultural factors as fundamental to the development of these problems. A progression of family, twin and molecular genetic studies has demonstrated a substantial role for genetic factors in the development of anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa and related traits. Paradoxically, genetic studies hold promise for refining and enriching our approach to understanding the impact of adverse environmental forces. The development of new and more sophisticated approaches for understanding the complex interplay of genetic and environmental effects will allow enhanced understanding of both risk and protective environmental factors and how they may influence expressions of underlying genetic vulnerabilities to eating disorders.
Brain volumes in psychotic youth with schizophrenia and mood disorders
Creators: name: El-Sayed, Mohamed
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: We sought to test the hypothesis that deficits in grey matter volume are characteristic of psychotic youth with early-onset schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (EOSS) but not of psychotic youth with early-onset mood disorders (EOMD).
Comprehensive Monitoring of Gamma-ray Bright Blazars. I. Statistical Study of Optical, X-ray, and Gamma-ray Spectral Slopes
Creators: name: Williamson, Karen E.
name: Jorstad, Svetlana G.
name: Marscher, Alan P.
name: Larionov, Valeri M.
name: Smith, Paul S.
name: Agudo, Iván
name: Arkharov, Arkady A.
name: Blinov, Dmitry A.
name: Casadio, Carolina
name: Efimova, Natalia V.
name: Gómez, José L.
name: Hagen-Thorn, Vladimir A.
name: Joshi, Manasvita
name: Konstantinova, Tatiana S.
name: Kopatskaya, Evgenia N.
name: Larionova, Elena G.
name: Larionova, Liudmilla V.
name: Malmrose, Michael P.
name: McHardy, Ian M.
name: Molina, Sol N.
name: Morozova, Daria A.
name: Schmidt, Gary D.
name: Taylor, Brian W.
name: Troitsky, Ivan S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present $γ$-ray, X-ray, ultraviolet, optical, and near-infrared light curves of 33 $γ$-ray bright blazars over four years that we have been monitoring since 2008 August with multiple optical, ground-based telescopes and the Swift satellite, and augmented by data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope and other publicly available data from Swift. The sample consists of 21 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and 12 BL Lac objects (BL Lacs). We identify quiescent and active states of the sources based on their $γ$-ray behavior. We derive $γ$-ray, X-ray, and optical spectral indices, $α_γ$, $α_X$, and $α_o$, respectively ($F_ν\proptoν^α$), and construct spectral energy distributions (SEDs) during quiescent and active states. We analyze the relationships between different spectral indices, blazar classes, and activity states. We find (i) significantly steeper $γ$-ray spectra of FSRQs than for BL Lacs during quiescent states, but a flattening of the spectra for FSRQs during active states while the BL Lacs show no significant change; (ii) a small difference of $α_X$ within each class between states, with BL Lac X-ray spectra significantly steeper than in FSRQs; (iii) a highly peaked distribution of X-ray spectral slopes of FSRQs at $\sim-$0.60, but a very broad distribution of $α_X$ of BL Lacs during active states; (iv) flattening of the optical spectra of FSRQs during quiescent states, but no statistically significant change of $α_o$ of BL Lacs between states; and (v) a positive correlation between optical and $γ$-ray spectral slopes of BL Lacs, with similar values of the slopes. We discuss the findings with respect to the relative prominence of different components of high-energy and optical emission as the flux state changes.
description: 40 pages, 28 figures, 10 Tables. Additional figures at http://www.bu.edu/blazars/VLBAproject.html. Accepted by ApJ
Treatment time and treatment selection (Hinckley & Sanchez, 2023)
Creators: name: Hinckley, Jacqueline
name: Sanchez, Leticia
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420110
subject: Speech pathology
classificationCode: 320905
subject: Neurology and neuromuscular diseases

description: Purpose: Little is known about the factors that clinicians use when selecting treatments. The purpose of this preliminary study was to explore a possible factor, available treatment time, in the aphasia treatment selection process.Method: A case-based vignette survey was created using de-identified assessment data from the AphasiaBank database. Six vignettes varied by aphasia type and severity and were presented under two different treatment time alternatives: 7.5 or 60 hr. Respondents were asked to select the single treatment that they would “almost certainly use” under each treatment time scenario. Treatment options were obtained from the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association Practice Portal. Respondents also answered questions about their confidence level in administering the treatments and their primary reason for selecting a particular treatment for each case scenario.Results: A total of 26 practicing speech-language pathologists with at least 5 years of clinical experience with aphasia completed the survey. A majority of respondents (76%–84%) changed the treatment they would “almost certainly use” based on a change in treatment time availability. The most frequently given reason for the overall treatment selection was that the treatment was likely to produce a functional outcome. Neither the respondents’ reported confidence levels nor their years of experience were related to treatment selection.Conclusions: This is one of the first studies to investigate how clinicians select aphasia treatment. Treatment time emerged as a consistent factor in selecting aphasia treatment in this preliminary study. Recommendations for next research steps are given. We suggest that aphasia treatment research be disseminated with clear information about required treatment time.Supplemental Material S1. Clinical decision making in aphasia treatment survey.Hinckley, J., & Sanchez, L. (2023). Treatment time and treatment selection in aphasia: A preliminary study using vignettes. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 32(5S), 2430–2443. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_AJSLP-22-00294Publisher Note: This article is part of the Special Issue: Select Papers From the 51st Clinical Aphasiology Conference.
Nitrous Oxide Inhalation Among Adolescents: Prevalence, Correlates, and Co-Occurrence with Volatile Solvent Inhalation
Creators: name: Howard, Matthew O.
name: Garland, Eric L.
name: Perron, Brian E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: Few studies have examined the prevalence of nitrous oxide (NO) inhalation or co-occurrence of NO and volatile solvent (VS) use in adolescents. Study aims were to (1) describe the independent and conjoint prevalence of NO and VS use in incarcerated youth, (2) compare adolescent users of both NO and VS inhalants (NO+VS) to users of NO-only, VS-only, and nonusers of NO and VS (NO/VS nonusers) with regard to demographic, psychological, and behavioral characteristics, and (3) conduct logistic regression analyses identifying correlates of NO use. Residents (N = 723) of Missouri Division of Youth Services were assessed with standardized psychosocial measures. Participants averaged 15.5 (SD = 1.2) years of age, were ethnically diverse and predominantly male. Lifetime prevalence of NO use was 15.8%. NO+VS users evidenced greater impairments compared to NO+VS nonusers. VS-only users evidenced impairments that were similar in kind but at lower prevalences compared to those displayed by NO+VS users, whereas NO-only youth had profiles that were similar to those of NO/VS nonusers. Psychiatric disorders, polydrug use, and temperamental fearlessness were correlates of NO use. NO+VS users were at high risk for behavioral and emotional problems. Screening and interventions for NO and VS inhalant use should be implemented in juvenile justice facilities.
Mean gas opacity for circumstellar environments and equilibrium temperature degeneracy
Creators: name: Malygin, M. G.
name: Kuiper, R.
name: Klahr, H.
name: Dullemond, C. P.
name: Henning, Th.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In a molecular cloud dust opacity typically dominates over gas opacity, yet in the vicinities of forming stars dust is depleted, and gas is the sole provider of opacity. In the optically thin circumstellar environments the radiation temperature cannot be assumed to be equal to the gas temperature, hence the two-temperature Planck means are necessary to calculate the radiative equilibrium. By using the two-temperature mean opacity one does obtain the proper equilibrium gas temperature in a circumstellar environment, which is in a chemical equilibrium. A careful consideration of a radiative transfer problem reveals that the equilibrium temperature solution can be degenerate in an optically thin gaseous environment. We compute mean gas opacities based on the publicly available code DFSYNTHE by Kurucz and Castelli. We performed the calculations assuming local thermodynamic equilibrium and an ideal gas equation of state. The values were derived by direct integration of the high-resolution opacity spectrum. We produced two sets of gas opacity tables: Rosseland means and two-temperature Planck means (the tables available via http://cdsweb.u-strasbg.fr/ as well as via http://www.mpia-hd.mpg.de/homes/malygin). For three metallicities [Me/H] = 0.0,+/-0.3 we covered the parameter range 3.48 <= log T_rad[K] <= 4.48 in radiation temperature, 2.8 <= log T_gas[K]} <= 6.0 in gas temperature, and -10 <= log P[dyn cm^-2] <= 6 in gas pressure. We show that in the optically thin circumstellar environment for a given stellar radiation field and local gas density there are several equilibrium gas temperatures possible. We conclude that, in general, equilibrium gas temperature cannot be determined without treating the temperature evolution.
description: 8 pages, 8 Postscript figures
Mindfulness Training Modifies Cognitive, Affective, and Physiological Mechanisms Implicated in Alcohol Dependence: Results of a Randomized Controlled Pilot Trial
Creators: name: Howard, Matthew O.
name: Gaylord, Susan A.
name: Boettiger, Charlotte A.
name: Garland, Eric L.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Mindfulness training may disrupt the risk chain of stress-precipitated alcohol relapse. In 2008, 53 alcohol-dependent adults (mean age = 40.3) recruited from a therapeutic community located in the urban southeastern U.S. were randomized to mindfulness training or a support group. Most participants were male (79.2%), African American (60.4%), and earned < $20,000 annually (52.8%). Self-report measures, psychophysiological cue-reactivity, and alcohol attentional bias were analyzed via repeated measures ANOVA. 37 participants completed the interventions. Mindfulness training significantly reduced stress and thought suppression, increased physiological recovery from alcohol cues, and modulated alcohol attentional bias. Hence, mindfulness training appears to target key mechanisms implicated in alcohol dependence, and therefore may hold promise as an alternative treatment for stress-precipitated relapse among vulnerable members of society.
One dimensional Brownian motion in hard rods: adiabatic piston problem
Creators: name: Foulaadvand, M. Ebrahim
name: Shafiee, M. Mehdi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We have investigated the motion characteristics of a movable piston immersed in a one dimensional gas of hard rods by event-oriented molecular dynamics in the absence of thermal noise. Periodic and reflecting boundary conditions are explored. It is shown that the piston undergoes systematic oscillations with decaying amplitudes in short times before it comes to global thermodynamic equilibrium. Moreover, the diffusion of the piston is explored and analytical expressions for its equilibrium mean-squared displacement is obtained. It is shown that MSD of the piston does not differ much from the normal rods despite its mass and length are significantly larger.
description: 6 pages, 6 eps figures, Revtex4
Background noise in aphasia (Scadden Nelson et al., 2023)
Creators: name: Nelson, Brenna Scadden
name: Harmon, Tyson G.
name: Dromey, Christopher
name: Clawson, Kirsten Dixon
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 320905
subject: Neurology and neuromuscular diseases
classificationCode: 420110
subject: Speech pathology
classificationCode: 520405
subject: Psycholinguistics (incl. speech production and comprehension)

description: Purpose: The purpose of this study was to determine how different background noise conditions affect the spoken language of participants with aphasia during a story retell task.Method: Participants included 11 adults with mild to moderate aphasia and 11 age- and gender-matched controls. Participants retold stories in a silent baseline and five background noise conditions (conversation, monologue, phone call, cocktail, and pink noise). Dependent measures of speech acoustics (fundamental frequency and mean intensity), speech fluency (speech rate and disfluent words), and language production (correct information units [CIUs], lexical errors, lexical diversity, and cohesive utterances) were compared between groups and across conditions.Results: Background noise resulted in higher fundamental frequency (fo) and increased mean intensity for control participants across all noise conditions but only across some conditions for participants with aphasia. In relation to language production, background noise interfered significantly more with communication efficiency (i.e., percent CIUs) for participants with aphasia than the control group. For participants with aphasia, the phone call condition led to decreased lexical diversity. Across groups, condition effects generally suggested more interference on speech acoustics in conditions where continuous noise was present and more interference on language in conditions that presented continuous informational noise.Conclusions: Although additional research is needed, preliminary findings suggest that background noise interferes with narrative discourse more for people with aphasia (PWA) than neurologically healthy adults. PWA may benefit from therapy that directly addresses communicating in noise.Supplemental Material S1. Linguistic characteristics of speech–noise conditions.Supplemental Material S2. Codes and definitions for Codes for Human Analysis of Transcripts (CHAT) system.Supplemental Material S3. Sample person with aphasia (PWA) Computerized Language Analysis (CLAN) file.Supplemental Material S4. Independent sample t-test results for background noise effects.Scadden Nelson, B., Harmon, T. G., Dromey, C., & Clawson, K. D. (2023). Telling stories in noise: The impact of background noises on spoken language for people with aphasia. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 32(5S), 2444–2460. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_AJSLP-22-00299Publisher Note: This article is part of the Special Issue: Select Papers From the 51st Clinical Aphasiology Conference.
Developmental Trajectories of Alcohol Use Among Monoracial and Biracial Black Adolescents and Adults
Creators: name: Coman, Emanuel
name: Clark, Trenette T.
name: Corneille, Maya
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: The present study investigates developmental trajectories of alcohol use from early adolescence to adulthood by age and race/ethnicity among White, Black, Black-American Indian, Black-Hispanic, and Black-White individuals and associated sociodemograhphic correlates.
Foldy-Wouthuysen Transformation in Strong Magnetic Fields and Relativistic Corrections for Quantum Cyclotron Energy Levels
Creators: name: Wienczek, A.
name: Moore, C.
name: Jentschura, U. D.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We carry out a direct, iterative Foldy--Wouthuysen transformation of a general Dirac Hamiltonian coupled to an electromagnetic field, including the anomalous magnetic moment. The transformation is carried out through an iterative disentangling of the particle and antiparticle Hamiltonians, in the expansion for higher orders of the momenta. The time-derivative term from the unitary transformation is found to be crucial in supplementing the transverse component of the electric field in higher orders. Final expressions are obtained for general combined electric and magnetic fields, including strong magnetic fields. The time-derivative of the electric field is shown to enter only in the seventh order of the fine-structure constant if the transformation is carried out in the standard fashion. We put special emphasis on the case of strong fields, which are important for a number of applications, such as electrons bound in Penning traps.
description: 12 pages; RevTeX
Optimal choice of observation window for Poisson observations
Creators: name: Kutoyants, Yury
name: Spokoiny, Vladimir
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Poisson process
subject: observation window
subject: sequential design
subject: van Trees' inequality
subject: information bound
subject: 62L05
subject: 62L12

description: We consider the possibility of optimal choice of observation window in the problem of parameter estimation by the observations of an inhomogeneous Poisson process. A minimax lower bound is proposed for the risk of estimation under an arbitrary choice of observation window. Then the adaptive procedure is proposed which is asymptotically efficient in the sense of this bound.
Viscous Perturbations of Vorticity Conserving Flows and Separatrix Splitting
Creators: name: Balasuriya, Sanjeeva
name: Jones, Christopher K. R. T.
name: Sandstede, Björn
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: two-dimensional vortices
subject: splitting of separatrices
subject: perturbation methods
subject: extended Melnikov theory
subject: forcing
subject: Lagrangian transport
subject: Melnikov function
subject: meandering ocean jet
subject: 76B47
subject: 76D99
subject: 86A05
subject: 37J40

description: We examine the effect of the breaking of vorticity conservation by viscous dissipation on transport in the underlying fluid flow. The transport of interest is between regimes of different characteristic motion and is afforded by the splitting of separatrices. A base flow that is vorticity conserving is assumed therefore to have a separatrix that is either a homoclinic or a heteroclinic orbit. The corresponding vorticity dissipating flow, with small time-dependent forcing and viscous parameter ε, maintains an O(ε) closeness to the inviscid flow in a weak sense. An appropriate Melnikov theory that allows for such weak perturbations is then developed. A surprisingly simple expression for the leading order distance between perturbed invariant (stable and unstable) manifolds is derived which depends only on the inviscid flow. Finally, the implications for transport in barotropic jets are discussed.
Nearly-linear light cones in long-range interacting quantum systems
Creators: name: Foss-Feig, Michael
name: Gong, Zhe-Xuan
name: Clark, Charles W.
name: Gorshkov, Alexey V.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In non-relativistic quantum theories with short-range Hamiltonians, a velocity $v$ can be chosen such that the influence of any local perturbation is approximately confined to within a distance $r$ until a time $t \sim r/v$, thereby defining a linear light cone and giving rise to an emergent notion of locality. In systems with power-law ($1/r^α$) interactions, when $α$ exceeds the dimension $D$, an analogous bound confines influences to within a distance $r$ only until a time $t\sim(α/v)\log r$, suggesting that the velocity, as calculated from the slope of the light cone, may grow exponentially in time. We rule out this possibility; light cones of power-law interacting systems are algebraic for $α>2D$, becoming linear as $α\rightarrow\infty$. Our results impose strong new constraints on the growth of correlations and the production of entangled states in a variety of rapidly emerging, long-range interacting atomic, molecular, and optical systems.
description: 5 pages, 3 figures, and Supplemental Material
Reduced subcritical Galton-Watson processes in a random environment
Creators: name: Fleischmann, Klaus
name: Vatutin, Vladimir A.
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 1996
Subjects: subject: Branching process in a random environment
subject: random walk in a random environment
subject: reduced process
subject: reduced tree
subject: conditional limit theorem
subject: age of the most recent common ancestor
subject: source time
subject: hybrid behavior
subject: 60J80
subject: 60J15

description: We study the structure of genealogical trees of reduced subcritical Galton-Watson processes in a random environment assuming that all (in time randomly varying) offspring generating functions are fractional linear. We show that this structure may differ significantly from that for the "classical" reduced subcritical Galton-Watson processes. In particular, it may look like a complex "hybrid" of classical reduced super- and subcritical processes. Some relations with random walks in a random environment are discussed.
Do Incest, Depression, Parental Drinking, Serious Romantic Relationships, and Living with Parents Influence Patterns of Substance Use During Emerging Adulthood?
Creators: name: Snyder, Susan M.
name: Rubenstein, Casey
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: This study examined how incest, depression, parental drinking, relationship status, and living with parents affect patterns of substance use among emerging adults, 18 to 25 years old. The study sample included (n = 11,546) individuals who participated in Waves I, II, and III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). The study used separate latent class analysis for males and females to determine how patterns of substance use clustered together. The study identified the following three classes of substance use: heavy, moderate, and normative substance use patterns. Multinomial logistic regression indicated that, for females only, incest histories also nearly doubled the risk of heavy-use class membership. In addition, experiencing depression, being single, and not living with parents serve as risk factors for males and females in the heavy-use group. Conversely, being Black, Hispanic, or living with parents lowered the likelihood of being in the group with the most substance use behaviors (i.e., heavy use). Findings highlight the need for interventions that target depression and female survivors of incest among emerging adults.
Using the ASEBA to Screen for Callous Unemotional Traits in Early Childhood: Factor Structure, Temporal Stability, and Utility
Creators: name: Willoughby, Michael T.
name: Moore, Ginger A.
name: Propper, Cathi B.
name: Waschbusch, Daniel A.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: This study evaluated a five-item screening measure of Callous Unemotional (CU) traits using items drawn from the Preschool Form of the Achenbach System of Empirically Based Assessment (ASEBA). Using data from the Durham Child Health and Development study (N=178), confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated that CU items could be distinguished from Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and Oppositional Defiant (ODD) items. The two-year stability (N=137) of CU (ϕ=.84) was comparable to that of ADHD (ϕ=.79) and ODD (ϕ=.69). Three groups of children were selected based on parent-rated ODD and CU behaviors at the 36-month assessment (N=37; ODD+CU, N=7; ODD-only, N=12; non-ODD, N=18). Multiple measures of infant temperament predicted group membership with 84% accuracy. Consistent with Frick and Morris’ (Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology 33(1):54–68, 2004) hypotheses, ODD+CU and ODD-only children exhibited temperamental profiles in infancy that were consistent with low fear and emotionally dysregulated pathways into conduct problems, respectively.
Fluid Inclusion Research: Proceedings of COFFI. Volume 4, 1971.
Creators: Roedder, Edwin, editor
Publisher: name: University of Alberta Library
Year: 1971

A yearly volume to provide communication between workers in various fields of research on fluid inclusions, using the term in its broadest sense to embrace inclusions of any fluid, gas, liquid, or melt, and in any natural material, terrestrial or extraterrestrial. Privately published each year, starting with 1968, at Washington.
Eigen Mode Solver for Microvawe Transmission Lines
Creators: name: Hebermehl, Georg
name: Heinrich, Wolfgang
name: Schlundt, Rainer
name: Zscheile, Horst
Publisher: name: Weierstrass Institute
Year: 1997
Subjects: subject: Microwave device simulation
subject: scattering matrix
subject: Maxwellian equations
subject: boundary value problem
subject: finite-volume method
subject: eigenvalue problem.
subject: 35Q60
subject: 35L20
subject: 65N22
subject: 65F10
subject: 65F15

description: The electromagnetic properties of microwave transmission lines can be described using Maxwell's equations in the frequency domain. Applying a finite-volume scheme this results in an algebraic eigenmode problem. In this paper, an improved numerical computation of the eigenmodes is present.