cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A scoping review protocol to map the evidence on strategies and interventions in neurotrauma and road traffic collisions prevention globally
Creators: name: Selveindran, Santhani
name: Khan, Muhammad
name: Simadibrata, Daniel
name: Hutchinson, Peter
name: Brayne, Carol
name: Hill, Christine
name: Kolias, Angelos
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: global
subject: high income countries
subject: interventions
subject: low and middle income countries
subject: Neurotrauma
subject: Prevention
subject: protocol
subject: public health
subject: road traffic collisions
subject: scoping review
subject: traumatic brain injuries

description: The purpose of this scoping review is to identify,quantify and summarize the existing evidence-base on preventative strategies and interventions in neurotrauma, particularly for road traffic collisions.
Total Synthesis of the Proposed Structure of Aldingenin B
Creators: name: Hughes, Colin
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Year: 2012

description: The first enantioselective total synthesis of the proposed structure of aldingenin B is reported in sixteen longest linear steps from known compounds. The stereochemistry at C5 and C6 were established by an asymmetric acetal aldol. Following a ring-closing metathesis, a selective, substrate-controlled hydrogen bond-mediated dihydroxylation provided control of the C2 and C3 stereocenters. Other key reactions include a cycloketalization, a bromoetherification, and two cerium trichloride promoted nucleophilic additions. Discrepancies in the spectroscopic data of the synthetic and natural material led to the conclusion that the structure of the natural sample was misassigned.
Skyrmions in a magnetic field and $π^0$ domain wall formation in dense nuclear matter
Creators: name: Chen, Shi
name: Fukushima, Kenji
name: Qiu, Zebin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We elucidate magnetic effects in the skyrmion system to probe into the dense nuclear matter. We find a deformed $π^0$ dipole structure of a baryon induced by a magnetic field. We then extend our scope to stacked Skyrme crystal layers to scrutinize phases of magnetized nuclear matter. We observe a quantized magnetic flux and identify a phase transition from a crystalline state to a $π^0$ domain wall corresponding to a topological transmutation from $π_3(S^3)$ to $π_1(S^1)$. We establish the phase diagram, which could be explored also in analogous systems with two-component Bose-Einstein condensates.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures
Additional file 1 of Microbiome specificity and fluxes between two distant plant taxa in Iberian forests
Creators: name: Saati-Santamaría, Zaki
name: Vicentefranqueira, Rocío
name: Kolařik, Miroslav
name: Rivas, Raúl
name: García-Fraile, Paula
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 1 Schematic description of the sampling locations and sample types used in this study. Red dots are locations where both blueberry and blackberry plants were sampled. The orange dot represents a location where only wild blackberry plants were collected. The background map was obtained from https://www.d-maps.com/conditions.php?lang=es
Product line design under capacity and competition
Creators: name: Yayla-Kullu, Hesna Muge
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2010

description: Firms have long recognized the importance of quality based market segmentation and designed their product lines to make use of this phenomenon. However, product line decisions are traditionally made without regard to capacity limitations. It is usually ignored that a firm has limited resources for offering its products and needs to use these resources efficiently. This dissertation provides managerial insights by simultaneously studying the product line design problem and capacity limitations faced by the firms in a stylized two product setting. The optimal choice of product mix and pricing of these products when the products have different quality levels is a well-known problem. It has been studied extensively in both the marketing and economics literatures. However, the impact of capacity constraints has never been investigated in these literatures. On the other hand, the effects of product variety on operational decisions and how to mitigate these effects are fundamental questions in the operations literature. However, the effects of segmentation and cannibalization have not been understood well in the operations literature. This dissertation aims to fill these gaps in the literature. In the first essay, the problem is solved from a monopolist firm's point of view. This solution is compared to a socially efficient solution subject to capacity limitations. In the second essay, we introduce competition into the model. We characterize the solutions for both duopoly and oligopoly market structures. We investigate how competitor entry changes the optimal product mix, how industry supply and prices of products are affected when the number of competing firms changes, and how these results under capacity limitations are different from the existing literature. In the third essay, we study firms that have focused product line strategies. We derive the profitability limits of the focused strategy firms under both monopoly and duopoly settings where the competition may be asymmetric. In the fourth essay, we extend the monopoly model into a multiperiod setting and we study the effects of customer valuation uncertainty. We discuss how the results from the deterministic case compare to the stochastic case and how increasing uncertainty affects the firm's product line decisions.
Early Detection of Emotional Issues in High School Students Through Statistical Analysis of Academic Data
Creators: name: Porello, Davide
Publisher: name: University of Illinois at Chicago
Year: 2023

description: The goal of this work is to identify markers for the onset of emotional issues, such as depression and anxiety, in high-school-age children. Such markers may involve declining academic performance, truancy, and behavioural issues in schools. The ability to identify markers predicting the onset of emotional issues in school-age children would allow schoolteachers and administrators to notify parents and guardians of the children affected as soon as the markers are detected. This would in turn facilitate early diagnosis and treatment for children who are indeed developing emotional issues. To accomplish our goal, we applied unsupervised learning methods to partition the input dataset into clusters with similar characteristics with respect to potential markers, such as declining or fluctuating academic performance. Our analysis seeks to cluster students into three classes (``critical", ``monitor" and ``stable") whose size aligns with statistics available, for instance, from the US Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). The student’s academic data are modelled as time series. Three main clustering approaches are evaluated empirically: (1) clustering of time series with different lengths, (2) classical clustering algorithms and (3) density-based clustering with feature reduction. As it turns out, only the last approach respects our desired cluster size while also achieving good accuracy results with respect to the markers. Students in clusters exhibiting fluctuations or sharp declines in academic performance are intended to be referred to their school counsellors for further investigation. We are currently working with a dataset of about 500 students from 5 Catholic high schools under the jurisdiction of the Diocese of Peoria in Peoria, Illinois.
Complete Action for Open Superstring Field Theory with Cyclic $A_\infty$ Structure
Creators: name: Erler, Theodore
name: Okawa, Yuji
name: Takezaki, Tomoyuki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We construct a gauge invariant action for the Neveu-Schwarz and Ramond sectors of open superstring field theory realizing a cyclic $A_\infty$ structure, providing the first complete and fully explicit solution to the classical Batalin-Vilkovisky master equation in superstring field theory. We also demonstrate the equivalence of our action to the Wess-Zumino-Witten-based construction of Kunitomo and one of the authors.
description: 41 pages, added discussion of PCO in subsection 3.1
Additional file 2 of Microbiome specificity and fluxes between two distant plant taxa in Iberian forests
Creators: name: Saati-Santamaría, Zaki
name: Vicentefranqueira, Rocío
name: Kolařik, Miroslav
name: Rivas, Raúl
name: García-Fraile, Paula
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 2 Alpha rarefaction curves of the alpha diversity (Shannon index) of the 16S rRNA gene (top) and ITS region (bottom) metabarcoding samples grouped by sample categories. The X-axis represents the number of reads
Symmetry breaking in two-dimensional square grids: persistence and failure of the dimensional crossover
Creators: name: Dovetta, Simone
name: Tentarelli, Lorenzo
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We discuss the model robustness of the infinite two-dimensional square grid with respect to symmetry breakings due to the presence of defects, that is, lacks of finitely or infinitely many edges. Precisely, we study how these topological perturbations of the square grid affect the so-called dimensional crossover identified in [Adami et al. 2019]. Such a phenomenon has two evidences: the coexistence of the one and the two-dimensional Sobolev inequalities and the appearence of a continuum of $L^2$-critical exponents for the ground states at fixed mass of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation. From this twofold perspective, we investigate which classes of defects do preserve the dimensional crossover and which classes do not.
description: 56 pages, 19 figures
Predicting Brand Awareness of Corporate Sponsor Activation in Intercollegiate Athletics
Creators: name: Gay, Colin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Brand awareness is cited as the main objective of companies engaging in sponsorship agreements with collegiate athletic departments and is often used as a measurement of sponsorship effectiveness. The field of sports sponsorship has evolved from static signage advertisements and one-way messaging to include on-site displays, digital and social media, and interactive technology. Multi-media rights holders are expected to spend over $25.5 billion in rights fees to colleges and universities over the next 15 years (imgcollege.com, 2017). Brands are vying for engagement and convergence with a team and the 190 million college sports fans they reach. In 2015, Nissan signed a historic national sponsorship contract with over 100 collegiate athletic departments (Forbes, 2015). The all encompassing contract consists largely of interactive stadium displays, on-site technology, enter-to-win contests, and in-stadium LED signage. This style of sponsorship is becoming common across all levels of sport, and the effectiveness of such sponsorships in achieving consumer brand awareness should be examined. Since companies must decide whether to allocate their marketing budget for sport sponsorships, it is necessary they are aware which assets will be the most effective in achieving brand awareness. The purpose of this study was to predict the brand awareness of corporate sponsorship activation through the measurement of consumer recognition rates of athletic department sponsors at an intercollegiate football game. Corporate sponsors, athletic departments, brand marketers, and multi-media rights holders will benefit from the research in this area.
THE THEORETICAL AND PRACTICAL VIRTUES IN FRANCISCO DE CASTILLA’S TEÓRICA DE VIRTUDES (1518) AND PRÁCTICA DE LAS VIRTUDES (1518)
Creators: name: Huamán, Ricardo
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This dissertation is on the life of Francisco de Castilla (c. 1480-c. 1558) and the two works he wrote around the time of Charles I and V of the Holy Roman Empire’s (1500-1558) arrival to Spain in 1517. Castilla’s life has been of interest because of his family’s support of the existence of an unknown Crónica verdadera (c. 1400) on the life of Pedro I (1334-1369) and their connection to the Relación de la vida del Rey D. Pedro y su descendencia que es el linaje de los Castilla, probably written in the sixteenth century. The association between Castilla’s life and probable authorship is further explored here with an added focus on separating facts about him from those of his similarly-named nephew. Teórica de virtudes (1518) and Práctica de las virtudes (1518), the two books written by Castilla, were published several times throughout the sixteenth century and again at the time of the Council of Trent (1545-1563), the beginning of the Counter-Reformation. The majority of the existing scholarship on Castilla’s works has focused on his use of the Latinized motto of Charles V, “Plus Ultra,” examining the relationship of Práctica de las virtudes to Pedro I and deciding whether or not Práctica belongs to the genre of historiography in verse. This study concentrates on Castilla’s understanding of the theological and cardinal virtues, their provenance, their effect on his poetic narratives and their practical applications on Charles V’s reign. It ends with an annotated edition of Castilla’s works from 1518.
The Charging Performance of Su-Schrieffer-Heeger Quantum Battery
Creators: name: Zhao, Fang
name: Dou, Fu-Quan
name: Zhao, Qing
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The Su-Schrieffer-Heeger (SSH) model has recently received considerable attention in condensed matter because it describes a typical one-dimensional system with topological edge states. Here, we investigate SSH-based charging protocols of quantum batteries (QB) with N quantum cells. This SSH QB hopping interaction induced ground state splitting makes the different effects of the dimerize parameter to the QB in the different quantum phase region. In the non-splitting region, the dimerize parameter has little influence on the QB. Whereas the fully-splitting region, the dimerize parameter has a significantly quantum advantage to the energy and ergotropy in the ground state fully splitting region, which leads the dimerize spin couples will have larger occupations than other spins. Although we have enhanced energy and ergotropy by the dimerize parameter, QB's capacity will decrease.
Household disaster preparedness: assessing the importance of relational and community social capital
Creators: name: Brunie, Aurélie
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: Household preparedness can help save lives and curtail staggering losses from natural disasters around the world. Finding ways to promote preparedness has become urgent in developing countries, which bear an increasingly disproportionate share of losses. Social capital reflects the quality of human relationships and may provide a useful resource to encourage households to prepare before it is too late. This study examines the influence of social capital on three aspects of household disaster preparedness: awareness of protective measures, knowledge of evacuation procedures and familiarity with response agencies. Two theoretical approaches to social capital are considered at the household-level: 1) relational social capital reflects the resources embedded in personal networks and is defined by resource composition, resource diversity and kinship composition; and 2) community social capital refers to the features of social organization (e.g., networks, norms and social trust) that promote cooperation within a group. Government representatives, civil society organizations in charge of disaster preparedness and community and household characteristics are also posited to influence household preparedness. Key informant interviews and a 182-household survey in 6 villages in Dominica in the Caribbean were used to assess the influence of relational and community social capital for locally-relevant measures of the three aspects of household preparedness. Results were analyzed for each outcome using logistic regression. The study.s key findings support that social capital enhances household preparedness and that this influence is moderate to strong relative to other factors. The effects of relational and community social capital, however, are distinct and furthermore vary across aspects of preparedness. Moreover, only resource diversity and to some extent kinship composition prove valuable characteristics of social networks. Diverse and kin-centered networks are valuable for awareness of protective measures. Networks with more diversity further enhance knowledge of evacuation procedures. Community social capital, on the other hand, improves familiarity with response agencies. In addition to emphasizing the importance of relationships among people for disaster preparedness, this study provides much needed empirical evidence contrasting two widely-used approaches to social capital. Relational and community social capital correspond to different types of human interactions and have a different utility.
Alperin's Fusion Theorem for localities
Creators: name: Molinier, Rémi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Group Theory (math.GR)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 20D20, 20J15, 20J06

description: In these notes we give an Alperin's Fusion Theorem for localities.
description: 6 pages. Published in Communication in Algebra
Additional file 3 of Microbiome specificity and fluxes between two distant plant taxa in Iberian forests
Creators: name: Saati-Santamaría, Zaki
name: Vicentefranqueira, Rocío
name: Kolařik, Miroslav
name: Rivas, Raúl
name: García-Fraile, Paula
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 3 Taxa bar plot representing the relative abundance of the bacterial (top) and fungal (bottom) phyla within the analysed samples
Compression and Conditional Emulation of Climate Model Output
Creators: name: Guinness, Joseph
name: Hammerling, Dorit
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Methodology (stat.ME)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Numerical climate model simulations run at high spatial and temporal resolutions generate massive quantities of data. As our computing capabilities continue to increase, storing all of the data is not sustainable, and thus it is important to develop methods for representing the full datasets by smaller compressed versions. We propose a statistical compression and decompression algorithm based on storing a set of summary statistics as well as a statistical model describing the conditional distribution of the full dataset given the summary statistics. The statistical model can be used to generate realizations representing the full dataset, along with characterizations of the uncertainties in the generated data. Thus, the methods are capable of both compression and conditional emulation of the climate models. Considerable attention is paid to accurately modeling the original dataset--one year of daily mean temperature data--particularly with regard to the inherent spatial nonstationarity in global fields, and to determining the statistics to be stored, so that the variation in the original data can be closely captured, while allowing for fast decompression and conditional emulation on modest computers.
Additional file 4 of Microbiome specificity and fluxes between two distant plant taxa in Iberian forests
Creators: name: Saati-Santamaría, Zaki
name: Vicentefranqueira, Rocío
name: Kolařik, Miroslav
name: Rivas, Raúl
name: García-Fraile, Paula
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 4 Boxplots representing the relative abundance of some distinctive microbial taxa within the studied samples grouped by plant species and sample type
New general lower and upper bounds under minimum-error quantum state discrimination
Creators: name: Loubenets, Elena R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: For the optimal success probability under minimum-error discrimination between $r\geq2$ arbitrary quantum states prepared with any a priori probabilities, we find new general analytical lower and upper bounds and specify the relations between these new general bounds and the general bounds known in the literature. We also present the example where the new general analytical bounds, lower and upper, on the optimal success probability are tighter than most of the general analytical bounds known in the literature. The new upper bound on the optimal success probability explicitly generalizes to $r>2$ the form of the Helstrom bound. For $r=2$, each of our new bounds, lower and upper, reduces to the Helstrom bound.
description: 15 pages
Interstitial cells of Cajal in der Appendix vermiformis des Kindes
Creators: name: Richter, André
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Medizinische Fakultät - Universitätsklinikum Charité
Year: 2005
Subjects: subject: Appendizitis
subject: Ätiologie
subject: Interstitial cells of Cajal
subject: Koprosthase
subject: appendicitis
subject: aetiology
subject: motility disorder
subject: 610 Medizin
subject: 33 Medizin
subject: XG 7554
subject: XG 7564
subject: XG 7568

description: In der kontroversen Diskussion um die unklare Ätiologie der Appendizits wird oft eine Motilitätsstörungen angeführt. Die Interstitial cells of Cajal sind bedeutend für die Motilität und die Entstehung der Peristaltik im menschlichen Kolon. Bei einigen Motilitätsstörungen des Darmes wurde eine Rarifizierung dieser Zellen beobachtet. Die ICC wuden noch nie in der Appendix vermiformis beschrieben.In dieser Arbeit wurden erstmals die ICC in der Appendix mittels einer immunhistochemischen Färbung durch einen maus-monoklonalen Antikörper ( NCL- cKit) nachgewiesen sowie analysiert. Es konnten keine Subgruppen IC-SMP und IC-MP in der Appendix nachgewiesen werden. Die IC-LM zeigten sich reduziert im Vergleich zum Kolon. Die IC-CM konnten zahlreich und regelmäßig dargestellt werden. Eine unterschiedliche Verteilung bzw. Dichte der ICC in der normalen Appendix, der akut und chronisch entzündeten Appendizits konnte nicht nachgewiesen werden.Schlussfolgernd und in Übereinstimmung mit den Beobachtungen anderer Autoren besitzt die Appendix eine reduzierte Motilität und eine physiologische Koprosthase, die aber allein nicht zu einer Entzündung führt. Erst unter dem Einfluss der aus der Literatur bekannten Kofaktoren wird die Koprosthase verstärkt. Erst dies führt zu einer Alteration der Schleimhaut und zur Appendizitis.
description: The aetiology of the childlike appendicitis is not generally known, but a motility disorder is discussed. The Interstitial cells of Cajal (ICC) are important for the motility and the development of the peristalsis of the colon. In some motility disorders the ICC are abnormaly distributed. The ICC of the human vermiform appendix has never been examined before. We proved and analysed the ICC of the appendix with the mous-monoclonal antibody against c-kit, (NCL-cKit). We could not identify subtypes of ICC, as IC-SMP or IC-MP in the appendix. The IC-LM were reduced compared to the colon. The IC-CM were numerously and regularly distributed. There were no differences in the reduced incidence of ICC between normal vermiform appendix, acute inflamed and chronic inflamed appendicitis.In conclusion and conformance with other observations the appendix has a physiological motility disorder and koprosthasis. Only if some influences of presumably additional cofactors (e.g. inflamation, lymphoid hyperplasia, obstruction), the koprosthasis is intensified, the mucosa is irritated and the appendicitis is developed.
Reconciling dwarf galaxies with LCDM cosmology: Simulating a realistic population of satellites around a Milky Way-mass galaxy
Creators: name: Wetzel, Andrew R.
name: Hopkins, Philip F.
name: Kim, Ji-hoon
name: Faucher-Giguere, Claude-Andre
name: Keres, Dusan
name: Quataert, Eliot
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Low-mass "dwarf" galaxies represent the most significant challenges to the cold dark matter (CDM) model of cosmological structure formation. Because these faint galaxies are (best) observed within the Local Group (LG) of the Milky Way (MW) and Andromeda (M31), understanding their formation in such an environment is critical. We present first results from the Latte Project: the Milky Way on FIRE (Feedback in Realistic Environments). This simulation models the formation of a MW-mass galaxy to z = 0 within LCDM cosmology, including dark matter, gas, and stars at unprecedented resolution: baryon particle mass of 7070 Msun with gas kernel/softening that adapts down to 1 pc (with a median of 25 - 60 pc at z = 0). Latte was simulated using the GIZMO code with a mesh-free method for accurate hydrodynamics and the FIRE-2 model for star formation and explicit feedback within a multi-phase interstellar medium. For the first time, Latte self-consistently resolves the spatial scales corresponding to half-light radii of dwarf galaxies that form around a MW-mass host down to Mstar > 10^5 Msun. Latte's population of dwarf galaxies agrees with the LG across a broad range of properties: (1) distributions of stellar masses and stellar velocity dispersions (dynamical masses), including their joint relation; (2) the mass-metallicity relation; and (3) a diverse range of star-formation histories, including their mass dependence. Thus, Latte produces a realistic population of dwarf galaxies at Mstar > 10^5 Msun that does not suffer from the "missing satellites" or "too big to fail" problems of small-scale structure formation. We conclude that baryonic physics can reconcile observed dwarf galaxies with standard LCDM cosmology.
description: 7 pages, 5 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ Letters. Several updates, including: (1) fixed a bug in halo finder, now identifies 13 satellite galaxies and more subhalos in the baryonic simulation; (2) fixed a minor bug in the feedback coupling and reran the simulation, resulting in a somewhat lower-mass host galaxy; (3) Fig 2 now shows stellar velocity dispersion profiles of satellites
Manifestation: masculinity on the female body in Elizabethan and Jacobean drama
Creators: name: Pinguelo, Hannah DeWitt
Publisher: name: The University of Edinburgh
Year: 2023
Subjects: Shakespearean plays
female to male crossdressing
Thomas Heywood
Thomas Middleton
Thomas Dekker
John Webster
Francis Beaumont
John Fletcher
Phillip Massinger
heroine crossdressers
gendered performances

description: At the end of Michael Shapiro’s highly influential Gender in Play on the Shakespearean Stage (1996) was an appendix comprising a “Chronological list of Plays with Heroines in Male Disguise” from 1570-1642 (221). This thesis focuses on the plays written in the Elizabethan and Jacobean periods in order to establish the development of a subgenre of female to male crossdressing and examines the expectations for female crossdressing characters and gender expression. Organized by authorial groupings and then an overview of outlying plays, the thesis seeks to contextualize heroine crossdressing as a trope contributed to by a substantial cohort of playwrights. Although Shakespearean drama is discussed first, this is not to prioritize his work but rather seeks to demonstrate how conservative his use of such tropes is in comparison with later playwrights. His plays provide evidence of an Elizabethan adherence to structure and limitations for female crossdressers that are later developed. Thomas Heywood’s plays exemplify the growing attention and interest in heroine crossdressing. He features a character who is minor and rudimentary; another who is derivative but reflects newly popularized archetypes; while his most detailed is an epic character who serves as the main protagonist of her narrative. Plays by Thomas Middleton, Thomas Dekker, and John Webster are at the heart of the new genre and testify to an established public desire for female crossdressing characters onstage, while their characters begin to evolve the trope and introduce diverse new traits, relationship arcs, and resolutions. Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher, in collaboration with Phillip Massinger, abandon the restrictions of Elizabethan standards in exchange for increasingly transgressive innovations. Over the course of eight plays, they become masters in creating crossdressing heroines. Finally, an evaluation of individual dramas written by several authors establishes how the creation, growth, and scope of such heroine crossdressers reveals evolving expectations for gendered performances in early modern England.
Walter Lippman's democracy
Creators: name: Williams, Dustin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2008

description: Walter Lippmann's work is often characterized in a variety of different ways, including progressive, conservative, liberal, and realist. However, it is rarely if ever characterized as democratic, despite Lippmann's commitment to democracy, both in declarations of allegiance and in the substance of his work. While Lippmann is critical of the public, his intent is not to create some form of oligarchy. Instead he advocates the role of representative government and the necessity of public discourse. It is my hope to illuminate the democratic aspects of Lippmann's work by looking primarily at several of his most important works: A Preface to Politics, Drift and Mastery, Liberty and the News, Public Opinion, The Phantom Public, and Essays in the Public Philosophy. A close examination of these works reveals a consistent commitment to a nuanced theory of democracy. This thesis examines the character of that democratic theory.
Additional file 5 of Microbiome specificity and fluxes between two distant plant taxa in Iberian forests
Creators: name: Saati-Santamaría, Zaki
name: Vicentefranqueira, Rocío
name: Kolařik, Miroslav
name: Rivas, Raúl
name: García-Fraile, Paula
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 5 Boxplots representing the relative abundance of bacterial genera found to be significantly enriched in the roots of blueberry (Nevskia) or blackberry (Sphingobium, Novosphingobium and Steroidobacter) within the studied samples grouped by plant species and sample type
Systematic Review: Mind Wandering and Executive Functioning
Creators: name: Hart, Chelsie
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Cognition and Perception
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: cognitive control
subject: executive functioning
subject: mindwandering
subject: mind wandering
subject: mind-wandering
subject: systematic review

description: pre-registering a systematic review examining the relationship between mind wandering and executive funcitoning
Dwork families and $\mathcal{D}$-modules
Creators: name: Domínguez, Alberto Castaño
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Algebraic Geometry (math.AG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 14D05, 14F10

description: A Dwork family is a one-parameter monomial deformation of a Fermat hypersurface. In this paper we compute algebraically the invariant part of its Gauss-Manin cohomology under the action of certain subgroup of automorphisms. To achieve that goal we use the algebraic theory of $\mathcal{D}$-modules, especially one-dimensional hypergeometric ones.
description: 24 pages, final version
The Influence of Maternal Psychosocial Factors and Household Composition on Infant Feeding Outcomes
Creators: name: Barrett, Katherine
Publisher: name: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate School
Year: 2015
Subjects: Ethnology

description: The present study explores if maternal psychosocial factors, specifically self-esteem and depressive symptomology, and the presence of an infant's grandmother in the household influence infant feeding styles and nutritional outcomes for infants nine months of age. Participants include 160 low-income, African-American mother-infant pairs in central North Carolina. Results indicate that parental self-efficacy, parental satisfaction, and depressive symptomology are significantly associated with infant feeding styles but not inappropriate feeding. Parental self-efficacy is positively associated with restrictive practices, whereas satisfaction is negatively associated with pressuring practices. Depression is associated with pressuring feeding styles. The presence of an infant's grandmother in many cases modifies these relationships to protect against inappropriate feeding.
Rigidity of integral coisotropic submanifolds of contact manifolds
Creators: name: Tortorella, Alfonso Giuseppe
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Symplectic Geometry (math.SG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 53D10 (Primary), 53D35, 53D17

description: Unlike Legendrian submanifolds, the deformation problem of coisotropic submanifolds can be obstructed. Starting from this observation, we single out in the contact setting the special class of integral coisotropic submanifolds as the direct generalization of Legendrian submanifolds for what concerns deformation and moduli theory. Indeed, being integral coisotropic is proved to be a rigid condition, and moreover the integral coisotropic deformation problem is unobstructed with discrete moduli space.
description: v3: 12 pages, published in Lett. Math. Phys., comments still welcome!
Form Factor Counting and HQET Matching for New Physics in $Λ_b \to Λ_c^*lν$
Creators: name: Papucci, Michele
name: Robinson, Dean J.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2021
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the $Λ_b \to Λ_c^*(2595) l ν$ and $Λ_b \to Λ_c^*(2625) l ν$ form factors and decay rates for all possible $b \to c l \barν$ four-Fermi interactions in and beyond the Standard Model (SM), including nonzero charged lepton masses and terms up to order $\mathcal{O}(α_s, 1/m_{c,b})$ in the heavy quark effective theory (HQET). We point out a subtlety involving the overcompleteness of the representation of the spin-parity $1/2^+ \to 3/2^-$ antisymmetric tensor form factors, relevant also to other higher excited-state transitions, and present a general method for the counting of the physical form factors for any hadronic transition matrix element and their matching onto HQET. We perform a preliminary fit of a simple HQET-based parametrization of the $Λ_b \to Λ_c^*$ form factors at $\mathcal{O}(α_s, 1/m_{c,b})$ to an existing quark model, providing preliminary predictions for the lepton universality ratios $R(Λ_c^*)$ beyond the SM. Finally, we examine the possible incompatibility of recent lattice QCD results with expectations from the heavy-quark expansion and available experimental data.
description: 17 pages, 3 figures, published version
Combinatorial Scoring of Phylogenetic Networks
Creators: name: Alexeev, Nikita
name: Alekseyev, Max A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Populations and Evolution (q-bio.PE)
subject: Data Structures and Algorithms (cs.DS)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Construction of phylogenetic trees and networks for extant species from their characters represents one of the key problems in phylogenomics. While solution to this problem is not always uniquely defined and there exist multiple methods for tree/network construction, it becomes important to measure how well the constructed networks capture the given character relationship across the species. In the current study, we propose a novel method for measuring the specificity of a given phylogenetic network in terms of the total number of distributions of character states at the leaves that the network may impose. While for binary phylogenetic trees, this number has an exact formula and depends only on the number of leaves and character states but not on the tree topology, the situation is much more complicated for non-binary trees or networks. Nevertheless, we develop an algorithm for combinatorial enumeration of such distributions, which is applicable for arbitrary trees and networks under some reasonable assumptions.
description: 12 pages; 3 figures
Detecting dark matter waves with precision measurement tools
Creators: name: Derevianko, Andrei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: Instrumentation and Detectors (physics.ins-det)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Virialized Ultra-Light Fields (VULFs) are viable cold dark matter candidates and include scalar and pseudo-scalar bosonic fields, such as axions and dilatons. Direct searches for VULFs rely on low-energy precision measurement tools. While the previous proposals have focused on detecting coherent oscillations of the VULF signals at the VULF Compton frequencies at individual devices, here I consider a network of such devices. VULFs are essentially dark matter {\em waves} and as such they carry both temporal and spatial phase information. Thereby, the discovery reach can be improved by using networks of precision measurement tools. To formalize this idea, I derive a spatio-temporal two-point correlation function for the ultralight dark matter fields in the framework of the standard halo model. Due to VULFs being Gaussian random fields, the derived two-point correlation function fully determines $N$-point correlation functions. For a network of $N_{d}$ devices within the coherence length of the field, the sensitivity compared to a single device can be improved by a factor of $\sqrt{N_{d}}$. Further, I derive a VULF dark matter signal profile for an individual device. The resulting line shape is strongly asymmetric due to the parabolic dispersion relation for massive non-relativistic bosons. I discuss the aliasing effect that extends the discovery reach to VULF frequencies higher than the experimental sampling rate. I present sensitivity estimates and develop a stochastic field SNR statistic. Finally, I consider an application of the developed formalism to atomic clocks and their networks.
description: 16 pages, 5 figs. Revised and expanded version
Additional file 6 of Microbiome specificity and fluxes between two distant plant taxa in Iberian forests
Creators: name: Saati-Santamaría, Zaki
name: Vicentefranqueira, Rocío
name: Kolařik, Miroslav
name: Rivas, Raúl
name: García-Fraile, Paula
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 6 Differential abundance of saprotrophic fungal traits among the different sample categories
ATR is a Novel Therapeutic Target for Medulloblastoma Identified by its Role in Cerebellar Development
Creators: name: Lang, Patrick
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2017

description: Microcephaly and brain tumors can both arise as a consequence of dysregulated expansion of neural progenitor cells. Inadequate progenitor proliferation, premature cell cycle exit, and inappropriate cell death can all result in neurodevelopmental disorders characterized by microcephaly. In contrast, brain tumors may form in response to overactive progenitor proliferation, failed cell cycle exit, and/or escape from cell death. This dissertation focuses on the role of the DNA damage response protein ATR (Ataxia-telangiectasia and Rad3-related) in the survival of cerebellar granule neuron progenitors (CGNPs) and CGNP-derived medulloblastoma, a cerebellar tumor that is the most common brain cancer of childhood. Chapter 1 provides background information on medulloblastoma, cerebellar development, CGNP biology, the ATR-mutated microcephalic disorder Seckel syndrome, ATR’s mechanism of action, and the apoptotic pathway. Chapter 2 is written in the form of a review article on how insights from primary microcephalic disorders in general can inform the development of novel brain cancer therapeutics. Chapter 3 is a published article that explores the function of ATR in CGNPs during neonatal cerebellar development. Specifically, we show that Atr deletion in CGNPs leads to widespread, p53-mediated, BAX/BAK-dependent apoptosis in the early postnatal period due to the accumulation of severe chromosomal abnormalities. This chapter also provides initial data suggesting the therapeutic value of targeting ATR using a novel nanoparticle formulation of the small molecule ATR inhibitor VE-822, pVE-822, for treating medulloblastoma. Chapter 4 presents ongoing work in the form of two research-in-brief articles in progress. The first section further investigates the possibility of treating CGNP-derived medulloblastoma with pVE-822, showing that pVE-822 has an anti-tumor effect in mice with established, spontaneous medulloblastoma. In the second section, data are presented demonstrating that in vivo inhibition of the mitotically-limited, microtubule-associated motor protein KIF11/EG5 potently arrests CGNPs in mitosis without producing DNA damage or apoptosis. Finally, Chapter 5 provides a discussion on how, if at all, ATR performs a special and unique function in CGNPs compared to other brain cells and whether ATR inhibition for the treatment of medulloblastoma should be further pursued.
"Je suis moy-mesmes la matiere de mon livre": Sexual Ambiguities and Friendship in Montaigne's Essais
Creators: name: Cranford, Emily R.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2006

description: While ambiguity's ultimate role is to create "infinis Essais" in the minds of Montaigne's readers, gender, sexuality and friendship play decisive roles in the significance of this ambiguity. Montaigne's oscillation between misogyny and feminism is manifested in the female voice and female persona that the essayist establishes for himself. His exploration of friendship with men and women offers the reader a plethora of contradictions, problematizations, destabilization and uncertainty; "De l'amitié" is at the same time an hommage to and mourning for Etienne de La Boétie. Montaigne makes his readers consider love between men in ways they most certainly had not before. He recreates the ancients' debate about love between men, thus continuing their contemplation of homosexuality to an infinity that is atemporal. Montaigne's friendship with Marie de Gournay enables her to multiply the meaning of his Essais with a feminist objective, thereby problematizing the misogynistic passages in Montaigne's Essais.
Deviation inequalities for Banach space valued martingales differences sequences and random field
Creators: name: Giraudo, Davide
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Probability (math.PR)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We establish deviation inequalities for the maxima of partial sums of a martingale differences sequence, and of a strictly stationary orthomartingale random field. These inequalities can be used to establish complete convergence of normalized maxima of partial sums.
Redeeming Faustus: Tracing the Pacts of Mariken and Faust from the 1500s to the Present
Creators: name: Hansen, Janice
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: This dissertation uncovers and analyzes the complicated history of the devil’s pact in literature from approximately 1330 to 2015, focusing primarily on texts written in German and Dutch. That the tale of the pact with the devil (the so-called Faustian bargain) is one of the most durable and pliable literary themes is undeniable. Yet for too long, the success of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Faust I (1808) decisively shaped scholarship on early devil’s pact tales, leading to a misreading of the texts with Goethe’s concerns being projected onto the earliest manifestations. But Goethe’s Faust really only borrows from the original Faust his name; the two characters could not be more different. Furthermore, Faustus was not the only early pact-maker character and his tale was neither limited to the German language nor to the Protestant faith. Among others, tales written in Dutch about a female, Catholic, late-medieval pact-maker, Mariken van Nieumeghen (1515), illustrate this. This dissertation seeks to redeem the early modern Faustus texts from its misreading and to broaden the scholarship on the literature of the devil’s pact by considering the Mariken and Faust traditions together. The first chapter outlines the beginnings of pact literature as a Catholic phenomenon, considering the tales of Theophilus and Pope Joan alongside Mariken of Nijmegen. The second chapter turns to the original Faust tale, the Historia von D. Johann Fausten (1587), best read as a Lutheran response to the Catholic pact literature in the wake of the Reformation. In the third chapter, this dissertation offers a new, united reading of the early modern Faust tradition. The fourth and fifth chapters trace the literary preoccupation with the pacts of both Mariken and Faustus from the late early modern to the present. The dissertation traces the evolution of these two bodies of literature and provides an in-depth analysis and comparison of the two that has not been done before. It argues for a more global literary scholarship that considers texts across multiple languages and one that takes into consideration the rich body of material of the pact tradition.
Additional file 7 of Microbiome specificity and fluxes between two distant plant taxa in Iberian forests
Creators: name: Saati-Santamaría, Zaki
name: Vicentefranqueira, Rocío
name: Kolařik, Miroslav
name: Rivas, Raúl
name: García-Fraile, Paula
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: Plant Biology

description: Additional file 7 Results for the comparison (permutation ANOVA) of beta-diversity indices (Bray–Curtis) of the different plant species and sample types (root and rhizosphere)