cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Ferromagnetic--nematic order and strongly correlated phases of fermions in optical flux lattices
Creators: name: Davenport, Simon C.
name: Cooper, Nigel R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We study a model of a 2D ultracold atomic gas subject to an "optical flux lattice": a laser configuration where Raman-dressed atoms experience a strong artificial magnetic field. This leads to a bandstructure of narrow energy bands with non-zero Chern numbers. We consider the case of two-level (spin-$1/2$) fermionic atoms in this lattice, interacting via a repulsive $s$-wave contact interaction. Atoms restricted to the lowest band are described by an effective model of spinless fermions with interactions that couple states in a momentum-dependent manner across the Brillouin zone; a consequence of the Raman dressing of the two spin states. We present the results of detailed exact diagonalization studies of the many-body states for a range of filling factors, $ν$. First, we present evidence for the existence of a phase with coupled ferromagnetic--nematic ordering, which was previously suggested by a mean-field analysis. Second, we present evidence indicating the presence of a Laughlin-like fractional quantum Hall state occurring at filling factor $ν= 1/3$. Finally, we observe a charge density wave state at $ν=1/2$, which we are able to cleanly distinguish from the Laughlin-like state by its translational symmetry breaking and relatively small participation ratio.
description: 7 pages, 9 figures
Isolating Cancer Cells Based on Invasiveness via a 3D Paper-based Invasion Assay
Creators: name: Sharaf, Ramy
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Metastasis, marked by the formation of a secondary tumor at a distant site in the body, is a major cause of cancer-related deaths. In carcinomas a process known as the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) initiates the potential for metastasis, promoting cellular invasion into neighboring healthy tissue. We have developed a 3D paper-based invasion assay that can isolate cells based on their invasiveness. Previous experiments have confirmed the ability of our assay to detect differences in cellular invasion between an epithelial cell line (MCF7) and a mesenchymal cell line (MDA-MB-231). This was determined by observing the differential protein expression of Vimentin and E-cadherin amongst cells extracted from varying layers of our 3D paper-based invasion assay. Here, we sought to test whether our assay was capable of detecting small differences in cellular invasion within two epithelial cell lines – MCF7, an ER+ breast cancer cell line, and HCT116, a colorectal carcinoma cell line – that were either induced to be more mesenchymal or within their native non-induced populations. To do so, we determined optimal incubation conditions for inducing EMT via comparison of bright-field microscopy images. We determined that optimal EMT induction was achieved by serum-starving cells for 24-hours prior to a 72-hour incubation with 10 ng/mL TGF- for MCF7 cells and 20 ng/mL TNF- for HCT116 cells. The EMT-induced invasion assays found that both cell lines had increased invasiveness compared to the non-induced controls. Our ability to detect and quantify small changes in invasiveness within a single cells line illustrates the utility of this assay for investigating cellular invasion. In continuation of this report’s findings, further experiments will utilize this invasion assay to isolate increasingly mesenchymal cells and examine differential protein expression amongst different isolated populations via Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay’s (ELISA’s). Additionally, dose-response curves will be used to analyze differential drug resistance to common chemotherapeutics amongst cells in various layers of our assay. Since it is expected for mesenchymal cells to have increased drug resistance, these curves can validate our ability to effectively isolate subpopulations of cells that exhibit differential resistance to chemotherapeutics.
Thesis Submitted to the College of Architecture and Civil Engineering for the Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Master of Science in Civil Engineering (Construction Technology and Management
Creators: name: MUBAREK JEMAL
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2019

description: The Ethiopian construction industry has been always criticized for its underperformance due to various reasons. The performance of the construction industry is one of the major development constraints in our country since our development highly depends on the growth of physical infrastructures. Therefore, it is important to identify the factors that are contributing to the underperformance to minimize their effect and consequently improve the industry. Performance measurement is identified as the first stage in any improvement process. It is important for organizations to evaluate their actual objectives against the predefined goals to make certain that they are doing well towards achieving the project goals. Therefore, there is a necessity to develop building project performance evaluation method, which can be easily applied on projects to assess their status at different stages of project lifecycle. In this thesis, it’s attempted to develop multidimensional performance evaluation method which incorporates both leading and lagging KPIs and apply the analytic hierarchy process (AHP) to formulate a benchmarking method to assess project performance at any phase of the construction stage. Five key performance indicators are identified from literatures and experience of other countries, pairwise comparison of each performance indicator is performed using AHP tool. The result of the analysis shows that quality is major performance indicator with 34%, while time, cost, safety and client’s satisfaction have 24%, 13%, 16% and 13% respectively.
(3742) Ann Reignier Conder
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The effect of convection on the position of the free liquid surface under zero and terrestrial gravity
Creators: name: Fedyushkin, Alexey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Theresults of numerical modelinghas based on the solution of Navier-Stokes equations for convection oftwo-layer system air-water are presented.The influence of thermocapillary and gravitational convection on the deformation and time averaged position of the interface of air-water system under sudden lateral heating of a square-section cavity are shown.
description: The location of the phase interface (air-water) in weightlessness can be metastable
Additional file 4 of Identification and distribution of gene clusters required for synthesis of sphingolipid metabolism inhibitors in diverse species of the filamentous fungus Fusarium
Creators: name: Hye-Seon Kim
name: Lohmar, Jessica M.
name: Busman, Mark
name: Brown, Daren W.
name: Naumann, Todd A.
name: Divon, Hege H.
name: Lysøe, Erik
name: Uhlig, Silvio
name: Proctor, Robert H.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Additional file 4. Distribution of SAM clusters in 87 representative Fusarium genome sequences.
(3743) James Harvey Anglin Scarlett
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Invasive Plants Can Increase Soil Respiration Rates in Volcanic Islands
Creators: name: McQueen, Sarah
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Invasive plant species have the ability to alter ecosystems through the modification of biological processes, including soil structure, water balance, and chemical properties. Pacific Islands exhibit some of the highest rates of invasive plant species proliferation per unit area in the world (Kleunen et al., 2015). Invasive plants have been shown to have higher soil nutrient content, which in turn can impact soil nutrient cycles, including the carbon cycle (Mack et al., 2004). While the litter of invasive plant species can affect soil nutrient status, little is known about the potential of invasive plant species to affect natural emissions of soil CO2 to the atmosphere. I sought to determine the role of invasive plant species in driving soil respiration fluxes on San Cristobal Island, Galápagos. I measured soil respiration, soil moisture, and soil nutrient status in test soil plots that contained either a native or invasive plant species and that were located at different elevations and microclimates across the island. I found that soil respiration was significantly higher in plots with invasive plant cover, but only at the lowest elevation site (P=0.022). In addition, soil moisture was negatively correlated with soil respiration for citrus plants (P=0.029), and varied for other plants across all sites. Ammonium, nitrate, and phosphate content in the soils differed among the test plots, but no significant relationship was found between soil nutrient content and soil respiration fluxes. Our results suggest that invasive plants can increase soil respiration in nutrient-poor volcanic islands, but these results are limited to sites at low elevations. These results are important for the characterization of the impact of invasive species on soil nutrient cycling of tropical islands. Understanding the impacts of invasive plants on soil respiration will help us predict and protect ecosystem and soil sustainability.
Properties of Solution set of Tensor Complementarity Problem
Creators: name: Song, Yisheng
name: Yu, Gaohang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Optimization and Control (math.OC)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47H15, 47H12, 34B10, 47A52, 47J10, 47H09, 15A48, 47H07

description: The tensor complementarity problem is a specially structured nonlinear complementarity problem, then it has its particular and nice properties other than ones of the classical nonlinear complementarity problem. In this paper, it is proved that a tensor is an S-tensor if and only if the tensor complementarity problem is feasible, and each Q-tensor is an S-tensor. Furthermore, the boundedness of solution set of the tensor complementarity problem is equivalent to the uniqueness of solution for such a problem with zero vector. For the tensor complementarity problem with a strictly semi-positive tensor, we proved the global upper bounds for solution of such a problem. In particular, the upper bounds keep in close contact with the smallest Pareto $H-$($Z-$)eigenvalue.
description: Journal of Optimization Theory and Applications, 2016
Additional file 9 of Identification and distribution of gene clusters required for synthesis of sphingolipid metabolism inhibitors in diverse species of the filamentous fungus Fusarium
Creators: name: Hye-Seon Kim
name: Lohmar, Jessica M.
name: Busman, Mark
name: Brown, Daren W.
name: Naumann, Todd A.
name: Divon, Hege H.
name: Lysøe, Erik
name: Uhlig, Silvio
name: Proctor, Robert H.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Additional file 9. Proposed sphingofungin C biosynthetic pathway inferred by comparison of the chemical structure of sphingofungin C and the content of enzyme-encoding genes in the putative sphingofungin biosynthetic gene cluster. Proposed functions of genes in the putative sphingofungin biosynthetic gene cluster based on sequence homology to genes of known function (Additional file 9 Table 1). Arrangement of genes in the putative sphingofungin biosynthetic gene cluster. Arrows represent genes and point in the direction of transcription. The designations for the 13 genes in the cluster are Afu3g14670 – Afu3g14770, Afu3g14790 and Afug14800. However, only the last three digits of these designations are shown above the genes in the figure. Genes encoding the PKS, AT and SDR enzymes are indicated (Additional file 9 Figure 1). Proposed sphingofungin C biosynthetic pathway (Additional file 9 Figure 2).
The Role of Microglia and Macrophages in Modulating Brain Neural Activity in Larval Zebrafish
Creators: name: Cai, Peiwen
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: In vertebrates, macrophages are critical innate immune cells of which a specialized subset called microglia resides in the brain integrated with neurons and other glial cells. While microglia have been implicated for many functions in the brain, it has remained unclear whether these immune cells can influence animal behaviors though modulating brain neural circuits. We hypothesized that microglia are intricately interconnected with neuronal activity and thus neural circuit function, thereby able to alter behavioral outputs of brain functions. We sought to use genetic models, namely the microglia-lacking zebrafish nlrc3l and irf8 mutants, to understand whether eliminating the normal interactions of microglia in the brain could lead to altered behaviors. We performed large-scale, long-term movement tracking and found a highly significant reduction in spontaneous locomotion during daytime in the nlrc3l mutants, while the other microglia-lacking mutant (irf8 mutant) exhibited only a modest difference. We also analyzed the pattern of movement over the long-term tracking, and found no significant difference between the mutants from control animals, indicating the phenotype was specific to a decrease in spontaneous activity rather than a defect in pattern of movement or ability to move. Using in vivo whole-brain calcium imaging, we found a strong reduction in baseline neural firing in the diencephalic neurons of the nlrc3l mutants. Further analysis of additional brain regions and other microglia-lacking mutants will better define specific neural circuits susceptible to microglial regulation, thereby altered in the absence of microglia. This study provides evidence supporting the role of microglia in modulating neural circuits that regulate normal spontaneous behaviors at steady state and the possibility that the presence of inflammation can exacerbate the behavioral deficiency when microglia are impaired. Insights from our zebrafish paradigm can shed light on neuroimmune interactions that likely will be relevant to these processes in human as many genetic pathways and cellular mechanisms are conserved between zebrafish and human.
Higher Weights of Affine Grassmann Codes and Their Duals
Creators: name: Datta, Mrinmoy
name: Ghorpade, Sudhir R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Information Theory (cs.IT)
subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 15A03, 11T06 05E99 Secondary 11T71

description: We consider the question of determining the higher weights or the generalized Hamming weights of affine Grassmann codes and their duals. Several initial as well as terminal higher weights of affine Grassmann codes of an arbitrary level are determined explicitly. In the case of duals of these codes, we give a formula for many initial as well as terminal higher weights. As a special case, we obtain an alternative simpler proof of the formula of Beelen et al for the minimum distance of the dual of an affine Grasmann code.
description: 13 pages; to appear in the Proceedings of AGCT (Luminy, France, June 2013)
Can we swim in superfluids?: Numerical demonstration of self-propulsion in a Bose-Einstein condensate
Creators: name: Saito, Hiroki
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It is numerically investigated whether a deformable object can propel itself in a superfluid. Articulated bodies and multi-component condensates are examined as swimmers. An articulated two-body swimmer cannot obtain locomotion without emitting excitations. More flexible swimmers can do so without the need to excite waves.
description: 6 pages, 5 figures, 4 movies, jpsj class file corrected
Additional file 8 of Identification and distribution of gene clusters required for synthesis of sphingolipid metabolism inhibitors in diverse species of the filamentous fungus Fusarium
Creators: name: Hye-Seon Kim
name: Lohmar, Jessica M.
name: Busman, Mark
name: Brown, Daren W.
name: Naumann, Todd A.
name: Divon, Hege H.
name: Lysøe, Erik
name: Uhlig, Silvio
name: Proctor, Robert H.
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2020
Subjects: subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Genetics

description: Additional file 8. Deletion analysis of the SAM5 PKS gene, AOD1, in F. babinda NRRL 25539 and F. tricinctum strain NRRL 25481.
RNA-dependent pseudouridine synthase Dkc1 as a regulator of stem cell homeostasis
Creators: name: Kavari, Sanam
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Despite the identification of master regulators of stem cell homeostasis, Sox2, Nanog, and Oct4, many mechanisms underlying the maintenance of self-renewal and pluripotency in embryonic stem cells are not well understood (Boyer et al. 2005, Cinghu et al. 2014). The proteins of the box H/ACA snoRNP have been identified as potentially of importance for stem cell maintenance (Cinghu et al. 2014) and are connected to regulation of stem cell-related gene expression (Fong et al. 2014), maintenance of self-renewal (Zhang et al. 2016), and accurate differentiation of stem cells (Bellodi et al. 2013). Using RNAi we investigated the connection between two members of the box H/ACA snoRNP, Dkc1 and Nop10, and stem cell homeostasis. We found that loss of Dkc1 lead to a disruption in stem cell homeostasis. To investigate if this connection was due to the pseudouridylation function of Dkc1, we constructed a genetic system to rescue the stem cell phenotype in Dkc1 knockdown. While we were able to establish exogenous expression of Dkc1 in our rescue system, the expression levels were not sufficient to rescue the loss of stem cell phenotype, requiring further optimization. Although we were not able to determine if pseudouridylation by the box H/ACA snoRNP is essential for stem cell homeostasis, we were able to demonstrate that this complex is important for the maintenance of a stem cell state.
Regularization preconditioners for frame-based image deblurring with reduced boundary artifacts
Creators: name: Cai, Yuantao
name: Donatelli, Marco
name: Bianchi, Davide
name: Huang, Ting-Zhu
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Numerical Analysis (math.NA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Thresholding iterative methods are recently successfully applied to image deblurring problems. In this paper, we investigate the modified linearized Bregman algorithm (MLBA) used in image deblurring problems, with a proper treatment of the boundary artifacts. We consider two standard approaches: the imposition of boundary conditions and the use of the rectangular blurring matrix. The fast convergence of the MLBA depends on a regularizing preconditioner that could be computationally expensive and hence it is usually chosen as a block circulant circulant block (BCCB) matrix, diagonalized by discrete Fourier transform. We show that the standard approach based on the BCCB preconditioner may provide low quality restored images and we propose different preconditioning strategies, that improve the quality of the restoration and save some computational cost at the same time. Motivated by a recent nonstationary preconditioned iteration, we propose a new algorithm that combines such method with the MLBA.We prove that it is a regularizing and convergent method. A variant with a stationary preconditioner is also considered. Finally, a large number of numerical experiments shows that our methods provide accurate and fast restorations, when compared with the state of the art.
(3739) Helen Elizabeth Conder
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Cranial Neural Crest Cell Susceptibility to Oxidative Stress and Apoptosis: Implications for SMCHD1-mediated Bosma Arhinia Microphthalmia Syndrome
Creators: name: Qureshi, Tanya
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Neural crest cells (NCC) and cranial placodes are transient cell populations that arise early in embryonic development at the boundary of the neural and non-neural ectoderm. NCC delaminate from the neuroectodermal border and differentiate into diverse cell types, while cranial placode cells differentiate into distinct sensory placodes. Bosma arhinia microphthalmia syndrome (BAMS) is caused by mutations in the epigenetic repressor, SMCHD1, and is defined by a triad of arhinia (absent external nose), ocular defects, and hypogonadism. We hypothesize that BAMS is a neurocristopathy, a disorder of NCC, because cranial NCC give rise to the nasal, ocular, and neuro-reproductive systems. Survival and migration of placode cells depends on cues from NCC, and thus BAMS likely represents a defect in NCC and/or placode cell proliferation, migration and/or terminal differentiation.Facial structure development results from programmed apoptosis of NCC as they migrate into the craniofacial mesenchyme. NCC may be particularly sensitive to apoptotic signals from oxidative stress, which can be induced by defects in metabolic processes. We propose that mutations in SMCHD1 increase NCC susceptibility to oxidative stress and induce defects in apoptosis, culminating in facial structure abnormalities. Furthermore, we posit that SMCHD1 dysfunction may render NCC less responsive to metabolic regulation of oxidative stress and apoptosis.We created gene expression profiles with O9-1 cells, a murine NCC line, using RT-PCR. We found that manipulating glucose conditions had an impact on NCC physiology culminating in the loss of NCC and stem cell characteristics, reduced antioxidant gene expression, and a propensity to differentiate into bone rather than skeletal muscle in high glucose (25 mM) conditions. Additionally, Smchd1 knockdown cells are less NCC-like, may be halted in an undifferentiated state, and may be more likely to differentiate into cartilage and smooth muscle cells. Smchd1 knock-down also results in higher expression of oxidative stress genes and a dysregulation of apoptosis gene transcription.Future experiments will compare these effects in wild-type vs Smchd1 knockout cells, as well cells expressing point-mutant versions of SMCHD1. Studying NCC in this context will not only aid in elucidating the molecular mechanisms underlying BAMS, but will also provide insights into NCC physiology, allowing for the discovery of potential druggable targets in the prevention of neurocristopathies, as well as in the development of tissue regeneration technologies.
Heat and mass transfer during crystal growing by the Czochralski method with a submerged vibrator
Creators: name: Fedyushkin, Alexey
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: It was shown that the vibrations can intensify of heat-mass transfer and mixing of the melt, and also to reduce dynamic and temperature boundary layers and to increase a temperature gradient on melt/crystal interface, that can to increase rate of crystal growth by the Czochralski method with a submerged vibrator. It is can be very impotent for manufacturing and quality of crystals.
A Thesis Submitted to Addis Ababa University, collage of Health Science School of Public Health for the partial fulfillment of the requirements of the Degree of Masters in Public Health (MPH)
Creators: name: Yonas Hailu
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2017

description: Background: Violence free environment is the one that everyone cherishes, while millions of women

worldwide suffer from violence against women. In most communities in Ethiopia, violence against

women is very common and considered as a private matter though it has a serious consequences for girls

and women. Its magnitude and impact is even worse at domestic set up especially on domestic workers,

which is not studied well.

Objective: The objective of the study is to measure the magnitude of violence against women among

female evening students working as domestic worker and its associated factors in Addis Ababa Ethiopia.

Methods: A school based quantitative cross sectional study sequentially complimented with qualitative

in-depth interview was used. A total of 545 randomly selected female evening students working as

domestic worker and aged 15 years and above were interviewed in May 2017. Data were entered in Epidata

version 3.1 and analyzed using SPSS version 22. Crude and adjusted odds ratio along with 95%

confidence interval in binary logistic regression were used to ascertain association. Individual depth

interview was done among 10 victims of violence. The audio information was transcribed and translated.

The qualitative data were coded and categorized. Thematic content analysis was then employed
(3736) Gwendolen Wade
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Developing a Drift Rate Distribution for Technosignature Searches of Exoplanets
Creators: name: Li, Megan
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022

description: Abstract: A stable-frequency transmitter with relative radial acceleration with respect to to a receiver will show a change in received frequency over time, known as a “drift rate”. If the transmitter is on an exoplanet, and the receiver on Earth, we must account for multiple components of drift rate: the orbit of the transmitter’s planet around its host star, the rotation of the transmitter’s planet, and the Earth’s planetary orbit and rotation, among other contributions. Understanding the drift rate distribution produced by planets in our galaxy, relative to Earth, can a) help us constrain which drift rates should be covered in a Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) project to detect radio technosignatures and b) help us determine the validity of signals-of-interest, as we can attempt to match any drifting signals that we detect with the expected distributions from the target star. In this project, we modeled the drift rate distribution for over 4000 confirmed exoplanets, using parameters from the NASA Exoplanet Archive (NEA). We find that the confirmed exoplanets have a drift rates distribution such that 99% of them fall within the ± 45 nHz range. This implies a distribution-informed maximum drift rate ∼ 4 times lower than previous work. However, we know that the planetary sample in the NEA is subject to observational biases. Therefore, we also simulated an exoplanet population built to reduce these biases, based on recent exoplanet population literature. The results suggest that, for a target star without known exoplanets, ± 1 nHz would be sufficient to account for 99% of signals. This huge reduction in recommended maximum drift rate is partially due to inclination effects, and partially due to bias from the exoplanetary period. The narrowed drift rate maxima from both the NEA and the simulated population will increase the efficiency of searches and save significant computational effort in future radio technosignature searches.
Soil and Water Conservation Needs -- A National Inventory
Creators: name: Conservation Needs Inventory Committee, U.S. Department Of Agriculture
name: Conservation Needs Inventory Committee, U.S. Department Of Agriculture
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 1965
Subjects: Crop Production/Industries
Land Economics/Use
Livestock Production/Industries
Resource /Energy Economics and Policy

description: Report Highlights: The National Inventory of Soil and Water Conservation Needs shows that nearly two thirds of the non-Federal rural land of the United States needs conservation treatment of some kind. Nearly 888 out of 1,433 million acres in the 48 mainland States, or 890 out of 1,437 million acres in the entire United States, needs conservation treatment. In either case, the land needing treatment is 62 percent of the non-Federal land expected to be in agricultural use by 1975. It includes 62 percent of the cropland, 73 percent of the non-Federal pasture and range, and 55 percent of the non-Federal forest and woodland. Of the 12,711 small watersheds identified in the U.S. mainland, 8,323 or 65 percent need project action which requires government and private cooperation to deal with flood prevention and water problems. Of 70 watersheds in Hawaii, 35 need projects. Inventory estimates are based on data obtained from mapping soils and land use as they were in 1958 on sample areas that were selected to provide adequate statistical sampling of every rural county in the United States, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Needed conservation treatments were estimated to include land use changes expected by 1975.
(3737) Janet Mary Morand Byng-Hall
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
IWN-OMW: conversion and linking of ItalWordNet  to the Open Multilingual WordNet specifications and format
Creators: name: Quochi, Valeria
name: Bartolini, Roberto
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Lexical Resources
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature

description: This is a working paper describing the Open Multilingual WordNet version of the ItalWordNet. The dataset is deposited in the ILC4CLARIN repository (https://dspace-clarin-it.ilc.cnr.it/repository/xmlui).
Expression, stability, and localization of the septin proteins, UNC-59 and UNC-61, in C. elegans.
Creators: name: Yang, Larry
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Cytokinesis is a fundamental cellular process by which a single cell splits into two daughter cells.  A cytoskeletal structure called the contractile ring provides the force required for constriction.  This ring is composed of filamentous actin (F-actin), non-muscle myosin II (NM II), and other proteins.  These include the septins, a family of filamentous and GTP-binding proteins.  In C. elegans, only two genes, unc-59 and unc-61, encode for septin proteins.  The two proteins form heterotetramer complexes and polymerize into filaments.  While it is known that both proteins are required for successful post embryonic cytokinesis in C. elegans, questions about their molecular stability and behavior remain.  We used fluorescence microscopy, western blot analysis, and DNA sequencing to study septin expression and localization under conditions where one protein is absent or altered.  We showed that worms carrying a null allele for unc-61 have decreased UNC-59 expression, which demonstrated that UNC-59 is destabilized in the absence of UNC-61. We also showed that worms with GFP-tagged UNC-59 have notably higher expression levels of UNC-59, yet still localize to the cleavage furrow endogenously.  Ongoing fluorescence correlation spectroscopy experiments may provide details about septin protein-protein interactions under different conditions.  Since the septins found in C. elegans are conserved as the core proteins of septin complexes in mammals and fungi, studying the stability of UNC-59 and UNC-61 may provide insight into septins’ roles in more complex organisms.
(3738) Ethel Mary Conder
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
The Utility of Apoptosis versus Pyroptosis in Defense Against Intracellular Bacterial Infections
Creators: name: Abele, Taylor
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: The ability to ward off pathogens is essential for the survival of a species. Programmed cell death plays an important role in defending against intracellular pathogens. There are three main forms of programmed cell death, each initiated by distinct pathways: apoptosis, necroptosis, and pyroptosis. Previous work by the Miao lab has shown that caspase-1 driven pyroptosis can efficiently clear intracellular bacteria. This was demonstrated by using an engineered strain of Salmonella that selectively triggers pyroptosis in the presence of tetracycline. I took two approaches to determine how apoptosis would compare to pyroptosis in the ability to clear a bacterial infection. First, I took advantage of the fact that caspase-1 can also activate the caspase-9 dependent apoptotic pathway when pyroptosis is blocked. Therefore, I examined our caspase-1 engineered Salmonella strain in knockout mice, which should convert the induction of pyroptosis to apoptosis. Second, I engineered a new strain of Salmonella to directly induce apoptosis by delivering an apoptotic protein which also triggers caspase-9 dependent apoptosis. Currently, my results suggest that unlike pyroptosis, apoptosis is unable to clear Salmonella infections in vivo. Future work will determine if apoptosis is unable to clear Salmonella due to a basic inability of apoptosis to clear pathogens, or if Salmonella has evolved mechanisms to evade the consequences of apoptosis.
The impact of the oblast center on regional socio-economic development: the center-periphery dimension
Creators: name: Melnyk, Mariana
name: Leshchukh, Iryna
name: Hlynskyy, Nazar
name: Melnyk, Mariana
name: Leshchukh, Iryna
name: Hlynskyy, Nazar
Publisher: name: Unknown
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Community/Rural/Urban Development
subject: center-periphery concept
subject: spatial development
subject: regional development
subject: oblast center
subject: periphery
subject: semi-periphery
subject: growth pole

description: Purpose. The paper aims to examine the impact of the oblast center on regional socio-economic development in the context of the center-periphery relationship. Methodology / approach. The general scientific methods (analysis, synthesis, generalization, systematization, graphic method) and special ones (statistical analysis, comparison, organizational and managerial modeling) were the basis of the methodological approach. The author improved the scientific-methodological approach to the comprehensive evaluation of a region’s socio-economic development in terms of the center-periphery relationships based on interrelated stages and methods. It stipulates the research of the impact each district of a region has on the major socio-economic parameters of an oblast; calculation of the District Socio-Economic Development Index and its comparison with the district’s distance to the oblast center; evaluation of interdependencies between the districts’ shares in major socio-economic parameters of respective oblasts and their distance to the oblast center; and analysis of the development intensity of the oblast districts depending on their distance to the oblast center. Results. Testing the scientific-methodological approach on the example of three oblasts of Ukraine (Lvivska, Poltavska, and Chernihivska), which are developing in different spatial-geographic, socio-economic, and demographic conditions, has contributed to substantiating the features of generation and development of the center-periphery relationships in the regions with different initial development conditions; outlining the areas of socio-economic centers’ impact on the districts; detecting the intensity of positive stimulus generation and their absorption in the region considering the role of local “growth poles” in the process. Originality / scientific novelty. The paper further develops the theoretical-methodological foundations of researching the center-periphery relationships in a region at the oblast center – oblast area level. The results of calculations following the author’s methodological approach have allowed developing the space structure for Ukrainian regions under research in the context of the center-periphery relationships. Practical value / implications. The conducted research based on the methodology developed by the author is quite important both in terms of the scientific-methodological aspect and in the context of addressing the important regional development tasks and searching for balanced and coherent spatial development.
The structure of the consecutive pattern poset
Creators: name: Elizalde, Sergi
name: McNamara, Peter R. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Combinatorics (math.CO)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 06A07 (Primary), 05A05, 05A16, 05E45, 52B22, 60C05 (Secondary)

description: The consecutive pattern poset is the infinite partially ordered set of all permutations where $σ\leτ$ if $τ$ has a subsequence of adjacent entries in the same relative order as the entries of $σ$. We study the structure of the intervals in this poset from topological, poset-theoretic, and enumerative perspectives. In particular, we prove that all intervals are rank-unimodal and strongly Sperner, and we characterize disconnected and shellable intervals. We also show that most intervals are not shellable and have Möbius function equal to zero.
description: 29 pages, 7 figures. To appear in IMRN
Within-Person Affect and Performance
Creators: name: Aitken, John
name: Baines, Julia I
name: Kim, JeongJin
name: Wonders, Madeline Elizabeth
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology
subject: Industrial and Organizational Psychology
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences

description: We are conducting a meta-analysis (quantitative synthesis) on the within-person relationship between positive affect, negative affect, and job performance. This preregistration reports the methods involved in searching for and coding papers to include as well as the analyses that we plan to conduct.
Allelic Imbalance Detection in Crohn’s Disease Patients
Creators: name: Tang, Ziqi
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: The exact cause of Crohn’s Disease (CD), one of the main types of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), remains an open question. Previous Genome-Wide Association Studies (GWAS) have associated Crohn’s disease with >240 genetic loci, but the mechanism behind these associations is still unknown. Many of the identified sites lie within the non-coding region of human genome, suggesting gene regulatory element as one of the contributors to Crohn’s Disease. From this observation, we posed the question that motivated this research: How does genetic variation influence chromatin accessibility that may contribute to developing Crohn’s disease? Allelic imbalance is a phenomenon where the two alleles of a given gene are expressed at different levels in a given cell, either because of epigenetic inactivation of one of the two alleles, or because of genetic variation in regulatory regions (Wagner, Pokholok, Gunderson, Pastinen, & Blanchette, 2010). We developed a computational pipeline to perform allelic imbalance analysis on both Crohn’s disease patients and non-IBD control individuals to discover the correlation between chromatin accessibility with different copies of SNP alleles. We performed the analysis based on patients’ genotype information and genome-wide, sequencing-based chromatin accessibility assay results. 239 sites of allelic imbalance were detected in chromatin accessibility data from the CD group, and 273 imbalance sites from the non-IBD group. By comparing the identified sites of imbalance with GWAS results and reviewing the function of genes adjacent to these imbalanced sites, we identified several sites potentially contributing to Crohn’s disease. These identified sites/regions provide interesting targets for future studies to determine the cause of Crohn’s disease.
Mapping the Outer Edge of the Young Stellar Cluster in the Galactic Center
Creators: name: Støstad, Morten N.
name: Do, Tuan
name: Murray, Norm
name: Lu, Jessica R.
name: Yelda, Sylvana
name: Ghez, Andrea M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present new near-infrared spectroscopic observations of the outer edges of the young stellar cluster around the supermassive black hole at the Galactic center. The observations show a break in the surface-density profile of young stars at approximately 13 arcsec (0.52 pc). These observations spectroscopically confirm previous suggestions of a break based on photometry. Using Gemini North's Near-Infrared Integral Field Spectrometer (NIFS) we are able to detect and separate early- and late-type stars with a 75% completeness at Ks = 15.5. We sample a region with radii between 7" to 23" (0.28 pc to 0.92 pc) from Sgr A*, and present new spectral classifications of 144 stars brighter than Ks = 15.5, where 140 stars are late-type (> 1 Gyr) and only four stars are early-type (young, 4-6 Myr). A broken power-law fit of the early-type surface-density matches well with our data and previously published values. The projected surface-density of late-type stars is also measured and found to be consistent with previous results. We find that the observed early-type surface-density profile is inconsistent with the theory of the young stars originating from a tightly bound infalling cluster, as no significant trail of young stars is found at radii above 13". We also note that either a simple disk instability criterion or a cloud-cloud collision could explain the location of the outer edge, though we lack information to make conclusive remarks on either alternative. If this break in surface-density represents an edge to the young stellar cluster it would set an important scale for the most recent episode of star formation at the Galactic center.
description: 17 pages, 11 figures, 3 tables, ApJ accepted
Factors Associated with Improved Glycemic Control in Patients with Type 2 Diabetes: A Secondary Analysis of Data from the ENGAGE-DM Trial
Creators: name: Amin, Anita
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2019

description: Study Objective: To identify the characteristics associated with patients who improved in glycemic control versus those who did not, in response to the ENGAGE-DM trial intervention.Methods: The ENGAGE-DM intervention consisted of a shared decision-making and brief negotiated interview session delivered over the telephone to improve glycemic control. This is a secondary analysis of variables from the pharmacist notes recorded during the interview and insurance claims data for the patients in the intervention group (n=155). Statistical analyses were used to test associations between the variables under study and glycemic control improvement. Descriptive analyses were conducted to compare positive and negative deviants, as well as key barriers and themes surrounding diabetes management.Findings: Patients that experienced substantial improvements in HbA1c were more likely to be male (p=0.008), be a part of a female pharmacist-male patient concordant pair (p=0.04), have a high baseline HbA1c value (p=0.00003), and report higher readiness to change their behavior (p=0.08). Barriers to successful diabetes management most frequently cited by patients were related to work commitments, comorbidities, and cost of medications and test supplies.Conclusions: This study demonstrated that important gender differences in diabetes management influence the extent to which women and men improve from an intervention. These findings emphasize the importance of stratifying analyses by gender to understand an intervention’s effect on improving or exacerbating underlying disparities.