cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Time-dependent phase shift of a retrieved pulse in off-resonant EIT-based light storage
Creators: name: Maynard, M. -A.
name: Bouchez, R.
name: Lugani, J.
name: Bretenaker, F.
name: Goldfarb, F.
name: Brion, E.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: Optics (physics.optics)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We report measurements of the time-dependent phases of the leak and retrieved pulses obtained in EIT storage experiments with metastable helium vapor at room temperature. In particular, we investigate the influence of the optical detuning at two-photon resonance, and provide numerical simulations of the full dynamical Maxwell-Bloch equations, which allow us to account for the experimental results.
description: 7 pages, 6 figures
Severe mental health in Northern Ireland, service provision and physical health outcomes: a scoping review of evidence and policy protocol.
Creators: name: Skoura, Anna
name: Breslin, Gavin
name: Golden, Saul
name: Whitaker, Pamela
name: Grant, Ken
name: Miller, Ian
name: Tully, Mark
name: Davidson, Gavin
name: Leavey, Gerard
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2023
Subjects: Mental health services
Health and community services
Multimorbidity
Residential client care
Personality and individual differences
Health equity
Mental health nursing
Psychiatry (incl. psychotherapy)
Health policy

description: The aim of this protocol is to define the search strategy of a scoping review of the literature on severe mental illness in Northern Ireland, with particular interest in research that highlights service provision, social exclusion, and physical health outcomes. A literature search will be undertaken to identify empirical and descriptive publications relating to integrated care of the physical health of people with SMI in Northern Ireland. This scoping review will map the available evidence and highlight areas of knowledge as well as gaps for future research. The scoping review is part of CHOICE, an AHRC-funded project that seeks to build a wide network of people and organisations – a community coalition – to tackle the issues of social exclusion and poor physical health among people living with severe and enduring mental health problems. This requires a whole-systems approach that engages key public, private and voluntary stakeholders while placing people living with mental health illness at the centre of co-design activities and ideas.
title: Die Magie der Verwandlung
Creators: name: Wunderlich, Laura Elisabeth
Year: 2023

description: Die Vorstellung von Kleidung als Mittel der Narration im Film stammt aus der Zeit des klassischen Hollywoodkinos und beeinflusst auch gegenwärtig noch stark das Vorgehen der Kostümbildner:innen bei Unterhaltungsfilmen. Die vorliegende Masterarbeit rück das Filmkostüm als narratives Element in den Mittelpunkt und zeigt auf, wie im 2001 erschienenen Kinofilm Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen die psychologische Entwicklung des Protagonisten Harry Potter durch das Kostüm visualisiert wird und welche Funktion spezifische, ausgewählte Kostüme innerhalb der Erzählung als filmische Mittel annehmen. Um das Kostüm als Gestaltungselement untersuchen zu können, wird im ersten Teil der Arbeit dafür ein theoretischer Rahmen gelegt, und dargelegt, wie vestimentäre Botschaften im Film vermittelt und für Rezipient:innen verständlich werden. Hierbei spielen neben der Farb- und Materialgestaltung der Figuren, die Darstellung von Stereotypen als auch die Wahrhaftigkeit der Kostüme eine wichtige Rolle. Durch die Arbeit soll schlussendlich aufgezeigt werden, dass das Kostümbild dazu beiträgt, die Geschichte der Figuren glaubhaft zu erzählen und eine wichtige Rolle für die Gesamtwirkung eines Filmes darstellt.
description: The exploration of clothing as a storytelling element in film traces its origins back to the classical era of Hollywood Cinema. Even in contemporary entertainment films, this concept continues to strongly influence the approach of costume designers. This master thesis delves into the role of film costumes as narrative elements, with a specific focus on visualizing the psychological development of the protagonist, Harry Potter, through his attire in the film "Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone." Additionally, this study examines the distinct functions that selected costumes assume within the narrative as cinematic tools. To analyze the costumes as design elements, the thesis first establishes a theoretical framework. This framework elucidates how vestimentary messages are conveyed in film and how they be- come comprehensible to viewers. Key considerations include the use of color and materials in character portrayal, the depiction of stereotypes, and the verisimilitude of costumes. The ultimate objective of this master thesis is to demonstrate the significant contribution of cos- tume design to authentic storytelling, and its pivotal role in shaping the overall impact of a film.
Connection formulas for thermal density functional theory
Creators: name: Pribram-Jones, Aurora
name: Burke, Kieron
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph)
subject: Other Condensed Matter (cond-mat.other)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The adiabatic connection formula of ground-state density functional theory relates the correlation energy to a coupling-constant integral over a purely potential contribution, and is widely used to understand and improve approximations. The corresponding formula for thermal density functional theory is cast as an integral over temperatures instead, ranging upward from the system's physical temperature. We also show how to relate different different correlation components to each other, either in terms of temperature- or coupling-constant integrations. We illustrate our results on the uniform electron gas.
Strategi Pengembangan Masyarakat Melalui Pemberdayaan Ekonomi Masyarakat Miskin di Kabupaten Kampar, Riau, Indonesia
Creators: name: Margolang, Nazaruddin
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: community
subject: empowerment
subject: program
subject: strategy

description: The research was conducted in Kampar Regency since 2011 January to December, it was porpuse to explain the strategy and performance of community economic empowerment on Kampar Economic Empowerment Program. Capacity Analysis program PEMK produce some strategies for developing programs in the future through : (a) Revised of standard operational procedure in accordance with the direction of development to business and institutional community, and to encourage public participation and efficiency management of PEMK Program. (b) to create, establish and carry out basic tasks and management function PEMK Program, especially in the mentoring process and reporting system activities, and the implementation of monitoring and evaluation system, (c) to increase the public assistance that encourage improved management sytem LED and KUB, and encourage the formation of new ventures with individual and collective activities in KUB, and (d) to create and implement a system of coordination that both structural and functional institutions PEMK Program
Progettazione e realizzazione del nuovo percorso storico-divulgativo multimediale della specola M. Hack
Creators: name: IAFRATE, Giulia
name: GASPARO, Federico
Publisher: name: O.A. Trieste
Year: 2023

description: Nel rapporto tecnico viene descritta la progettazione e realizzazione della riqualificazione del piano terra della Specola M. Hack di Basovizza dell'Osservatorio Astronomico di Trieste, dedicata alle attività con pubblico e scuole, e la conseguente ripresa delle attività di divulgazione e osservazione al telescopio. OATs ha riqualificato la mostra storica presente dal 1998 al piano terra delle Specola, realizzando un moderno percorso divulgativo storico-scientifico innovativo, ricco di installazioni digitali e contenuti virtuali che affiancano gli strumenti storici esposti, per un’esperienza ricca di novità, immersiva e coinvolgente.
Tacrolimus Monotherapy in Cardiac Transplantation
Creators: name: Huckle, Ericka
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: Heart failure is a nation-wide epidemic with 5 million Americans affected, and it is the leading cause of death in the world. Cardiac transplantation is the current gold-standard to treating end-stage heart failure. The one-year survival rate of cardiac transplantation is greater than 80% when patients are placed on an immunosuppressive
regimen including medications such as corticosteroids, azathioprine, and cyclosporine A. Prior to the 1980s, success with cardiac transplantation was very limited. The introduction of cyclosporine A in 1980, when used in combination with azathioprine and corticosteroids, was the reason for the increase in one-year graft and patient survival. The use of a three-drug regimen was became a main-stay in cardiac transplant recipients in the prophylaxis of acute rejection. Shortly after 1980, tacrolimus was identified as a potential immunosuppressive agent that had comparable efficacy to cyclosporine A with significantly decreasing the incidence and severity of acute rejection following cardiac transplantion. In vivo and in vitro studies both suggest that cyclosporine A and tacrolimus operate through slightly different mechanisms. Tacrolimus is successful in providing ongoing prophylaxis of rejection due to the suppression of IL-10 and inhibition of IL-10-mediated cytotoxic cell
infiltration into the transplant. There was no statistically significant difference in freedom from ISHLT Grade 3A rejection when using tacrolimus compared to cyclosporine. However tacrolimus demonstrated a better cardiovascular risk profile than cyclosporine A. A newer randomized controlled open-label trial investigated the use of tacrolimus monotherapy to the use of tacrolimus in combination with mofetil mycophenolate (MMF) as prophylaxis of acute rejection in cardiac transplantation. The goal of this trial was to determine if outcomes were similar between monotherapy and combination groups. The primary outcome was the 6-month mean International Society of Heart and Lung Transplant (ISHLT) biopsy score, and the secondary outcomes included all-cause mortality, incidence of ISHLT grade 2R/3R rejection over 6- and 12-month time points, one-year mean cumulated ISHLT biopsy score, and incidence of allograft vasculopathy. The researchers found the incidence of 6-month freedom from rejection in the
monotherapy group was 85.9% and in the combination group was 94.4%, but the findings were not statistically significant (p = 0.14). There was no significant reduction in rejection, allograft vasculopathy, or 3-year survival. The purpose of this project is to further establish the efficacy and safety of the use of tacrolimus monotherapy for immunosuppression in cardiac transplant recipients at UNC medical center.
PFS Data Manager User Manual
Creators: name: CARRARO, Francesco
Publisher: name: IAPS Roma
Year: 2023

description: PFS Data Manager User Manual describes an UWP application developed to help the PFS team in creating requests for retrieving PFS data from ESOC and processing them. The app allows the creation of requests, sends them towards ESOC servers, waits for related data and processes them creating files available for being analyzed strting from telemetries.
Magnetocaloric effect of nanostructured La0.6Sr0.4CoO3
Creators: name: Alvarez, Fabiana Morales
name: Vigna, María Belén
name: Quintero, Mariano
name: Lamas, Diego G.
name: Sacanell, Joaquín
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: In this study, we investigate the magnetic and magnetocaloric properties of nanostructured La0.6Sr0.4CoO3 (LSC) samples synthesized under confinement conditions within porous templates. Using this method, we obtained de-agglomerated nanoparticles, which provide us with the feasibility of applying them in nanoparticle films that can be tailored to intricate geometries. We specifically explored the impact of pore size of the template on key parameters including saturation magnetization (MS), Curie temperature (TC), maximum entropy change (ΔS), and relative cooling power (RCP). Our findings reveal enhancements in those quantities, that are likely to be related with the nanostructure of the samples, indicating the potential of nanostructured LSC as an active material for magnetic refrigeration devices. Our alternative approach of synthesizing magnetocaloric materials under confinement conditions presents an exciting prospect for future research and development in the field.
description: 17 pages, 7 figures
Potential Shifts in the Rhetoric of al-Qaeda Central
Creators: name: Bushman, Emily
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: In this paper I examine pieces of rhetoric over time to determine whether there is a shift in rhetorical strategies. The change in leadership from bin Laden to Zawahiri, the heightened United States counterterror campaigns, and the continued increase in proliferating al-Qaeda affiliated movements could be responsible for a shift in rhetorical strategy. My prediction could still have support even if the rhetoric of al-Qaeda seems only to shift slightly as opposed to an upheaval and complete change. Slight shifts in rhetorical strategies, like an addition or removal of certain rhetorical patterns, could also useful to determine the ways in which the central organization shifts its tactics in light of its strategically vulnerable position.
      In my research, I will to attempt to answer the questions “Does it seem that central al-Qaeda’s propaganda has shifted (pre-9/11, post-9/11, post death of Usama bin Laden and other leaders’ eliminations)? If so, How?” It seems that if there are potentially patterns of differences in the propaganda put forward by al-Qaeda, the approach to developing current tactics for countering terrorism must reflect that change. The tactics for fighting terrorism at home and abroad will change depending on how the threat of terrorism develops, and that begins with propaganda.
title: Soziale Vulnerabilität im Fokus der Bewertung der Hitzeanfälligkeit der Bevölkerung
Creators: name: Sander, Isabelle
Year: 2023

description: In der vorliegenden Masterarbeit wird die soziale Vulnerabilität im Kontext der Bewertung der Hitzeanfälligkeit der Bevölkerung behandelt. Konkret geht es dabei um die Entwicklung von Hitzevulnerabilitätsindizes unter Bezugnahme auf sozial vulnerable Bevölkerungsgruppen durch den Einsatz von ausgewählten Indikatoren. Dabei liegt der Fokus auf der Bewertung der Hitzeanfälligkeit der Bevölkerung urbaner Gebiete, rurale Gebiete werden im Zuge dieser Arbeit nicht behandelt. Um dieser Thematik auf den Grund zu gehen, wurde ein systematisches Literaturreview mit Keyword-Suche durchgeführt. Das systematische Literaturreview wurde anhand mehrerer Stufen durchgeführt. Von 616 potenziell geeigneten Literaturquellen nach der Anfangssuche wurden lediglich 22 Literaturquellen als geeignet betrachtet und in die anschließende Datenextrahierung miteinbezogen. Auf Basis der gewonnenen Ergebnisse konnte festgestellt werden, dass bereits eine Vielzahl an Studien sozial vulnerable Bevölkerungsgruppen durch den Einsatz von Indikatoren in die Hitzevulnerabilitätsindexentwicklung miteinbeziehen, vorrangig in Form von sozio-demografischen Merkmalen. Bei der Wahl der Indikatoren wurde der Datenverfügbarkeit im Sinne von Open Data eine wichtige Rolle zugewiesen. Über das Literaturreview hinausgehend wurde ein Expert*inneninterview mit Sagnik Bhattacharjee geführt, um vertiefende Einblicke in die Zusammenarbeit mit der Stadt Wien, die Entwicklung des urbanen Hitzevulnerabilitätsindex sowie die verwendete Datenbasis zu bekommen. Das Expert*inneninterview lieferte hilfreiche und über den Literaturbestand hinausgehende Erkenntnisse zur Indexerstellung und den verwendeten Indikatoren sowie zu ergänzenden Indikatoren die zu einer verstärkten Miteinbeziehung sozial vulnerabler Bevölkerungsgruppen, in der Theorie, beitragen könnten. Die Ergebnisse aus dem systematischen Literaturreview und dem Expert*inneninterview wurden abschließend genutzt, um am Beispiel des urbanen Hitzevulnerabilitätsindex der Stadt Wien auf eine verstärkte Miteinbeziehung der sozialen Vulnerabilität der Bevölkerung durch den Vorschlag der Indikatoren: (1) Bildung, (2) Gesundheit, (3) Armut, (4) Einkommen und (5) Wohnverhältnisse aufmerksam zu machen.
Sign-reversing orbital polarization in the nematic phase of FeSe due to the $C_2$ symmetry-breaking in the self-energy
Creators: name: Onari, Seiichiro
name: Yamakawa, Youichi
name: Kontani, Hiroshi
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: To understand the nematicity in Fe-based superconductors, nontrivial $k$-dependence of the orbital polarization ($ΔE_{xz}(k)$, $ΔE_{yz}(k)$) in the nematic phase, such as the sign reversal of the orbital splitting between $Γ$- and X,Y-points in FeSe, provides significant information. To solve this problem, we study the spontaneous symmetry breaking with respect to the orbital polarization and spin susceptibility self-consistently. In FeSe, due to the sign-reversing orbital order, the hole- and electron-pockets are elongated along the $k_y$- and $k_x$-axes respectively, consistently with experiments. In addition, an electron-pocket splits into two Dirac cone Fermi pockets with increasing the orbital polarization. The orbital-order in Fe-based superconductors originates from the strong positive feedback between the nematic orbital order and spin susceptibility.
description: 10 pages, 10 figures, to appear in Phys. Rev. Lett
How Academic Achievement Moderates the Relationship Between Self-Stigma and Depression Among College Students
Creators: name: Chen, Yumei
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2018

description: Due to the prevalence and seriously negative consequences associated with mental illness stigma, a number of interventions have been developed to ameliorate the situation. Theatric performance and contact-based approaches represent promising modes of stigma-reduction intervention. One potential intervention that combines the contact and the artistic aspect is administering videos of people narrating about their experience of stigma, but no empirical evaluations have been published. This study examined the efficacy of a video of an individual diagnosed with bipolar disorder describing some general stereotypes and daily labeling experiences. Participants (N=38) were students from the USA, Taiwan, and India recruited by snowball sampling. They completed a pretest with a stigma and depression measure, along with questions about demographics and their GPA, then were randomly assigned to one of two video conditions: (1) the intervention video described above, or (2) an informational video with some facts about mood disorder. All then completed a depression and stigma measure post-test. Self-stigma scores increased in both conditions. Academic ability did not moderate the relationship between pretest and posttest scores in both conditions, although academic ability itself and the pretest stigma scores correlated positively and significantly with posttest scores. Brief video exposure requires additional careful evaluation of its efficacy before implementing widely.
Book References: Sustainable Innovation: Business Strategies for a Greener Future
Creators: name: Sario, Azhar ul Haque
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: classificationCode: 380107
subject: Financial economics
classificationCode: 380109
subject: Industry economics and industrial organisation

description: Please note that this serves as a reference file for the book titled "Sustainable Innovation: Business Strategies for a Greener Future." It contains citations for the 68 different research studies that were utilized in the creation of this work. Its sole purpose is to ensure transparency regarding the data sources consulted.
Towards the understanding of jet shapes and cross sections in heavy ion collisions using soft-collinear effective theory
Creators: name: Chien, Yang-Ting
name: Vitev, Ivan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)
subject: Nuclear Experiment (nucl-ex)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We calculate the jet shape and the jet cross section in heavy ion collisions using soft-collinear effective theory (SCET) and its extension with Glauber gluon interactions in the medium (SCET$_{\rm G}$). We use the previously developed framework to systematically resum the jet shape at next-to-leading logarithmic accuracy, and we consistently include the medium modification by incorporating the leading order medium-induced splitting functions. The calculation provides, for the first time, a quantitative understanding of the jet shape modification measurement in lead-lead collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}=2.76$ TeV at the LHC. The inclusive jet suppression is also calculated within the same framework beyond the traditional concept of parton energy loss, and the dependence on the centrality, the jet radius and the jet kinematics is examined. In the end we present predictions for the anticipated jet shape and cross section measurements in lead-lead collisions at $\sqrt{s_{\rm NN}}\approx5.1$ TeV at the LHC.
description: 26 pages, 12 figures
Nursing Student Awareness and Perception of Intimate Partner Violence: A Study of the UNC-Chapel Hill Undergraduate Nursing Program
Creators: name: Morgan, Emily
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Many practicing nurses cite a lack of education about intimate partner violence (IPV) in nursing school as a cause of their low self-efficacy in addressing it with patients (Beccaria, Beccaria, Dawson, Gorman, Harris, & Hossain, 2013). Many published studies have tested strategies to increase knowledge of IPV in the practicing RN population (Beccaria et. al, 2013). However, few IPV educational interventions or knowledge assessment surveys have been conducted with the undergraduate nursing student population (Beccaria et. al, 2013). There is a lack of knowledge about nursing student attitudes towards and knowledge of IPV in the United States (Woodtli & Breslin, 2002).
This study aims to explore the attitudes and knowledge of undergraduate nursing students at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill towards IPV. This study was conducted with an Accelerated Bachelors of Science in Nursing (ABSN) cohort starting their first semester of the nursing program and an ABSN cohort in their last semester of the program. An electronic survey containing instruments to measure student’s self-efficacy in addressing IPV, nursing roles and values related to IPV, and educational preparedness to address IPV was circulated amongst these students. The comparison of these 2 cohorts provides important information about the impact of the IPV nursing curriculum upon both students’ readiness to address IPV in clinical practice and their perception of it.
ABSN students are required to have a previous bachelor’s degree and bring diverse life experiences to the nursing program. For this reason, the study was also conducted with students in the Bachelors of Science in Nursing (BSN) program. BSN students are primarily seeking their first degree and most are in their early twenties. Including BSN students in the study provides information about the impact of the IPV nursing curriculum on a population lacking in life experience which would otherwise be helpful in addressing IPV in clinical practice.
Spatial evolution of the ferromagnetic phase transition in an exchange graded film
Creators: name: Kirby, B. J.
name: Belliveau, H. F.
name: Belyea, D. D.
name: Kienzle, P. A.
name: Grutter, A. J.
name: Riego, P.
name: Berger, A.
name: Miller, Casey W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A combination of experiments and numerical modeling was used to study the spatial evolution of the ferromagnetic phase transition in a thin film engineered to have a smooth gradient in exchange strength. Mean-field simulations predict, and experiments confirm that a 100 nm Ni[x]Cu[1-x] alloy film with Ni concentration that varies by 9 % as a function of depth behaves predominantly as if comprised of a continuum of uncoupled ferromagnetic layers with continuously varying Curie temperatures. A mobile boundary separating ordered and disordered regions emerges as temperature is increased. We demonstrate continuous control of the boundary position with temperature, and reversible control of the magnetically ordered sample volume with magnetic field.
A Systematic Review and Application of Indicator Selection Methods for Monitoring Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Schools
Creators: name: Schwemlein, Stefanie Mei
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2014

description: Monitoring of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WaSH) is necessary to track
progress, improve accountability, and demonstrate impacts of efforts to improve WaSH
conditions and services. Particularly in low-resource settings, there is currently no
standard method for selecting WaSH indicators, which are necessary for robust
monitoring and evaluation. To address this need, we first conducted a systematic
literature review of existing indicator selection methods used in environmental science,
international development, and other related fields. Based on findings from the
systematic review, we then developed a WaSH indicator selection method, which
includes the following stages: (1) defining concepts and purpose; (2) selecting and
justifying a conceptual framework; (3) developing a list of candidate indicators; (4)
determining selection criteria; (5) scoring indicators against criteria; and (6) selecting the
final suite of indicators. Finally, this method was applied to the selection of indicators for
school WaSH, and these final twenty indicators were organized into an input-output-outcome-
impact framework. The resulting suite of school WaSH indicators provides a
foundation for coordinated monitoring, identifies focus areas for resource allocation, and
highlights needs for policy development in WaSH.
Quantum spin chains with fractional revival
Creators: name: Genest, Vincent X.
name: Vinet, Luc
name: Zhedanov, Alexei
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Classical Analysis and ODEs (math.CA)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: A systematic study of fractional revival at two sites in $XX$ quantum spin chains is presented and analytic models with this phenomenon are exhibited. The generic models have two essential parameters and a revival time that does not depend on the length of the chain. They are obtained by combining two basic ways of realizing fractional revival in a spin chain each bringing one parameter. The first proceeds through isospectral deformations of spin chains with perfect state transfer. The second arises from the recurrence coefficients of the para-Krawtchouk polynomials with a bi-lattice orthogonality grid. It corresponds to an analytic model previously identified that can possess perfect state transfer in addition to fractional revival.
description: 25 pages;
Anatomy of a blazar in the (sub-)millimeter: ALMA Observations of PKS 0521-365
Creators: name: Leon, S.
name: Cortes, P. C.
name: Guerard, M.
name: Villard, E.
name: Hidayat, T.
name: Flaquer, B. Ocana
name: Vila-Vilaro, B.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We aim at analyzing the (sub-)millimeter emission in a nearby blazar, PKS 0521-365 , to study the synchrotron and thermal emission in the different components detected at low frequency. We analyze the archive public data of the ALMA Cycle 0 where PKS 0521-365 is used as a calibrator. A total of 13 projects with 23 dataset is analyzed in band 3, 6 and 7 and combined. The whole set of data is combined and wavelet filtered to obtain a deep image reaching a dynamic range of 47000. The individual emission flux is measured at different date over a period of 11 months in various components. Finally we analyze the Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) in each different component, including the radio jet and counter jet. The point sources detected in the field follow a similar distribution to previous studies. The blazar flux shows large variation especially in band 3. Different components are observed: core, radio jet and newly detected counter jet, Hot Spot (HS) and a disky structure roughly perpendicular to the jet. The HS emission is formed by a point source surrounded by an extended emission. The viewing angle of the jet is about 30 with a Doppler factor of 1.6$. The HS is at a distance of 19 kpc from the center. The SED analysis shows a strong variation of the core spectral index, especially in band 3. The two components in the radio jet have roughly a flat spectral index in band 6 and 7. Using these ALMA data the different weak and extended components are detected. The analysis of both jets constrains the geometrical distance of the HS to the center. The SED presents a different shape in time and frequency for each component. Finally a new structure is detected roughly perpendicular to the radio jet and a thermal emission origin is currently favoured. Further observations at higher spatial resolution are needed to confirm that hypothesis.
description: 14 pages, 15 figures, accepted for publication in A&A
Design Optimization Algorithms for Concentric Tube Robots
Creators: name: Baykal, Cenk
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2015

description: Concentric tube robots are tentacle-like surgical robots that can bend around anatomical
obstacles to access hard-to-reach surgical targets. These robots have potential to enable
minimally invasive surgical procedures by allowing physicians to access clinical regions that
were previously unreachable using traditional instruments. Concentric tube robots are composed
of nested, customizable tubes which undergo complicated mechanical interactions that
generate tentacle-like motion. As a consequence of this intricate kinematic mechanism, the
physical specifications of each of the robots tubes, i.e. the robot’s design, significantly affect
the shapes that the robot can undertake and the regions it can reach. Customizing the
design of these robots can potentially facilitate successful surgical procedures on a variety
of patients. In this thesis, we present design optimization algorithms to generate appropriate
design parameters on an application- and patient-specific basis.
We consider three design optimization problems. First, we present a design optimization
algorithm that generates a concentric tube robot design under which the robot can maximize
the reachable volume of a given goal region in the human body. We provide analysis establishing
that our design optimization algorithm for generating a single design is asymptotically
optimal. Second, we present an algorithm that computes sets of concentric tube robot
designs that can collectively maximize the reachable volume of a given goal region in the
human body. Third, we introduce an algorithm that generates the set of designs of minimal
size such that the designs in the set can collectively reach a physician-specified percentage of
the goal region.
Each of our algorithms combines a search in the design space of a concentric tube robot
using Adaptive Simulated Annealing with a sampling-based motion planner in the robot’s
configuration space in order to find a single or sets of designs that enable paths to the goal
regions while avoiding contact with anatomical obstacles. We demonstrate the effectiveness
of each of our algorithms in a simulated scenario based on lung anatomy and compare our
algorithms’ performance with that of current state-of-the-art design optimization algorithms.
The 2022 Proposal for an EU Regulation on Packaging and Packaging Waste: Compostable/Biodegradable Packaging
Creators: name: Farmer, Andrew
name: Orthodoxou, Demetra
name: Baldwin, Christina
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: Packaging, Biodegradable Plastics, Compostable Plastics, Definitions, Law making, Better Regulation

description: The European Commission published a proposal for a Regulation on Packaging and Packaging Waste on 30 November 2022. This includes provisions relating to “compostable packaging” and “biodegradable plastic polymers”. The term “compostable packaging” is not well defined and needs revising to limit its end of life to industrial composting and to make its definition practical to manufacturers. This briefing proposes a revision. The lack of a definition for “biodegradable plastic polymers” is unfortunate. The sense in which biodegradation is used is different to the understanding set out in the parallel policy from the Commission on bio-based, biodegradable and compostable plastics. The briefing proposes a definition and approach to ensure consistency across EU policies. The provisions concerning how the European Commission may mandate compostable packaging are well set out. This briefing frames its arguments for improvement in the text of the Regulation around the principles of better regulation.
Generalized Totalizer Encoding for Pseudo-Boolean Constraints
Creators: name: Joshi, Saurabh
name: Martins, Ruben
name: Manquinho, Vasco
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO)
subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Pseudo-Boolean constraints, also known as 0-1 Integer Linear Constraints, are used to model many real-world problems. A common approach to solve these constraints is to encode them into a SAT formula. The runtime of the SAT solver on such formula is sensitive to the manner in which the given pseudo-Boolean constraints are encoded. In this paper, we propose generalized Totalizer encoding (GTE), which is an arc-consistency preserving extension of the Totalizer encoding to pseudo-Boolean constraints. Unlike some other encodings, the number of auxiliary variables required for GTE does not depend on the magnitudes of the coefficients. Instead, it depends on the number of distinct combinations of these coefficients. We show the superiority of GTE with respect to other encodings when large pseudo-Boolean constraints have low number of distinct coefficients. Our experimental results also show that GTE remains competitive even when the pseudo-Boolean constraints do not have this characteristic.
description: 10 pages, 2 figures, 2 tables. To be published in 21st International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming 2015
The relationship between metacognition, Big Five personality traits and locus of control
Creators: name: Coleman, Charlie
name: Ibek, Paulina
name: Brogden, Holly
name: Plukaite, Ieva
Publisher: name: Open Science Framework
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cognitive Psychology
subject: Cognition and Perception
subject: Social and Behavioral Sciences
subject: Psychology
subject: FOS: Psychology

description: The research aims to quantitatively measure metacognition, Big Five personality traits and a sense of perceived control (locus of control) and investigate the relationship between these variables. Previous research showed that personality traits are linked to metacognition, which is an important factor in academic performance. However, these studies examined personality in terms of specific academic performance, e.g., language learning (Ozturk, 2021). It has also been proposed that internal attribution of success is positively correlated with metacognition, meaning that those who attribute the results of their learning to internal reasons display a higher level of metacognition (Hrbackova et al. 2012). Therefore, our research aims to extend previous research by examining the direct relationship between metacognition and Big Five personality traits and locus of control.
A Review of the Ethics of Artificial Intelligence and its Applications in the United States
Creators: name: Taiwo, Esther
name: Akinsola, Ahmed
name: Tella, Edward
name: Makinde, Kolade
name: Akinwande, Mayowa
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This study is focused on the ethics of Artificial Intelligence and its application in the United States, the paper highlights the impact AI has in every sector of the US economy and multiple facets of the technological space and the resultant effect on entities spanning businesses, government, academia, and civil society. There is a need for ethical considerations as these entities are beginning to depend on AI for delivering various crucial tasks, which immensely influence their operations, decision-making, and interactions with each other. The adoption of ethical principles, guidelines, and standards of work is therefore required throughout the entire process of AI development, deployment, and usage to ensure responsible and ethical AI practices. Our discussion explores eleven fundamental 'ethical principles' structured as overarching themes. These encompass Transparency, Justice, Fairness, Equity, Non- Maleficence, Responsibility, Accountability, Privacy, Beneficence, Freedom, Autonomy, Trust, Dignity, Sustainability, and Solidarity. These principles collectively serve as a guiding framework, directing the ethical path for the responsible development, deployment, and utilization of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies across diverse sectors and entities within the United States. The paper also discusses the revolutionary impact of AI applications, such as Machine Learning, and explores various approaches used to implement AI ethics. This examination is crucial to address the growing concerns surrounding the inherent risks associated with the widespread use of artificial intelligence.
description: International Journal on Cybernetics & Informatics (IJCI) Vol.12, No.6, December 2023
title: "Uns hat man damals eingetrichtert: denkt nicht, wir denken für euch, und daran habe ich mich gehalten."
Creators: name: Kneidinger, Jasmin Ursula
Year: 2023

description: Infolge der Durchführung des ersten Frankfurter Auschwitzprozesses (1963 – 1965) stieß die Ahndung der im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz begangenen Massenverbrechen auch in Österreich auf großes Interesse. Innerhalb der Geschworenenprozesse der 1960er und 1970er Jahre wurden über 60 Personen verdächtigt, sich an den Massenerschießungen, Einzeltötungen und Selektionen im Konzentrationslager Auschwitz beteiligt zu haben. Letztendlich wurden jedoch in Österreich nur gegen vier Personen Verfahren eingeleitet und Prozesse durchgeführt, welche allesamt mit Freisprüchen endeten. Ein wesentlicher Grund hierfür lag nicht nur an den fehlen-den Beweisen einer individuellen Tatbeteiligung der Angeklagten, sondern auch am fortwährenden Antisemitismus der österreichischen Nachkriegsgesellschaft und -politik, sowie am Umgang Österreichs mit seiner eigenen NS-Vergangenheit. Mit der Hinwendung zu den Verteidigungsstrategien der vier Angeklagten Walter Dejaco, Fritz Ertl, Franz Wunsch und Otto Graf mitsamt jenen ihrer Strafverteidigern, sollen die folgenden Fragen geklärt werden: Welche Verteidigungsstrategien der Angeklagten und deren Strafverteidiger können in den beiden österreichischen Auschwitzprozessen festgemacht werden? Lassen sich Unterschiede zwischen den beiden Prozessen finden? Sowie: Können durch diese angewandten Verteidigungsstrategien Rückschlüsse auf das gesellschaftliche und politische Klima Österreichs in seinen ersten Nach-kriegsjahrzehnten gezogen werden?
Enhanced cavitation enables DNA and chromatin extraction from archived tissues
Creators: name: Quimby, Austin
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2016

description: The term “epigenetics” refers to heritable changes in gene expression not associated with alteration of DNA sequence. There is considerable research exploring how changes at the epigenetic level influence tumor progression. Preservation of tissue samples with the formalin fixed, paraffin embedded (FFPE) technique is commonly used to archive tumor biopsy samples. There is currently no method for extracting chromatin from FFPE tissue that is compatible with all downstream analysis techniques.
$C^0$ Approximations of foliations
Creators: name: Kazez, William H.
name: Roberts, Rachel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 57M50, Secondary 53D10

description: Suppose that $\mathcal F$ is a transversely oriented, codimension one foliation of a connected, closed, oriented 3-manifold. Suppose also that $\mathcal F$ has continuous tangent plane field and is {\sl taut}; that is, closed smooth transversals to $\mathcal F$ pass through every point of $M$. We show that if $\mathcal F$ is not the product foliation $S^1\times S^2$, then $\mathcal F$ can be $C^0$ approximated by weakly symplectically fillable, universally tight, contact structures. This extends work of Eliashberg-Thurston on approximations of taut, transversely oriented $C^2$ foliations to the class of foliations that often arise in branched surface constructions of foliations. This allows applications of contact topology and Floer theory beyond the category of $C^2$ foliated spaces.
description: 56 pages, 6 figures. Definitions have been added and clarified, and citations have been updated
Eine queere Lesart von Kohelet 4,9-12
Creators: name: Hügel, Karin
Publisher: name: Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Religion
subject: Queer Theory
subject: LSBTIQ
subject: Schwule
subject: Sexualität
subject: Judentum
subject: Homosexualität
subject: 200 Religion
subject: 221 Altes Testament (Tenach)
subject: Bibelwissenschaften
subject: Kulturwissenschaften
subject: Theologie
subject: Altes Testament

description: Kohelet 4,9-12 kann heute als queerer Gegentext zu konservativen Auslegungen des biblischen zweiten Schöpfungsberichts interpretiert werden. Auf die Fragestellung, welche Partner_Innen wir brauchen, um nicht allein zu sein oder überleben zu können, legt Koh 4,9-12 auch andere Modelle als eine ausschließliche Mann-Frau Beziehung nahe. Aus queerer Sicht kann behauptet werden, dass ein sexuelles Verhältnis zwischen Männern in Koh 4,11 erwähnt wird: Dass sich zwei Männer beim Liegen wärmen, kann bedeuten, dass sie sich sexuell erregen. Im Rahmen einer queeren Lesart könnten in Koh 4,11 womöglich auch andere, unterschiedliche, queere Gefährt_Innen assoziiert werden, die einander beim Liegen sexuell erregen. Mit dem in Koh 4,12 erwähnten dreifachen Faden, der nicht so schnell zerrissen wird, kann Verschiedenes gedanklich verbunden werden. Nicht nur Kinder, wie im Midrasch zu Kohelet behauptet wird, festigen – eventuell auch queere – Paarbeziehungen, sondern Zuneigung und sexuelles Begehren spielen eine wesentliche Rolle. Aus späteren jüdischen Interpretationen, nämlich aus dem babylonischen Talmud Qidduschin, aus bQid 82a, und aus Parallelstellen geht hervor, dass es jüdische Gelehrte bisher nicht verboten haben, wenn zwei unverheiratete Männer miteinander unter demselben Mantel schlafen.
description: Qohelet 4,9-12 can be interpreted today as a queer countertext in relation to conservative exegeses of the biblical second creation account. To answer the question, which partners we need in order not to be alone or to be able to survive, Qoh 4,9-12 suggests also other models than an exclusive man-woman relationship. It can be argued from a queer perspective that a sexual relation between men is mentioned in Qoh 4,11: That two men warm up while lying, can imply that they sexually arouse each other. Within the framework of a queer reading Qoh 4,11 may also trigger associations about other, diverse, queer companions, who sexually arouse each other while lying. Various things can be associated with the threefold cord, which is not so quickly torn apart, mentioned in Qoh 4,12. Not only future children, as asserted in the Midrash on Qohelet, may form a basis for partnerships – perhaps also queer –, affection and sexual desire also play an important role. It follows from later Jewish interpretations, namely from the Babylonian Talmud Qiddushin, i.e., bQid 82a, and from parallel passages, that Jewish scholars have not previously forbidden that two unmarried men sleep with each other under the same cloak.
Research on digital image watermark encryption based on hyperchaos
Creators: name: Wu, Pianhui
Publisher: name: University of Derby
Year: 2013
Subjects: Hyperchaotic
Scrambling
Wavelet transform

description: The digital watermarking technique embeds meaningful information into one or more watermark images hidden in one image, in which it is known as a secret carrier. It is difficult for a hacker to extract or remove any hidden watermark from an image, and especially to crack so called digital watermark. The combination of digital watermarking technique and traditional image encryption technique is able to greatly improve anti-hacking capability, which suggests it is a good method for keeping the integrity of the original image. The research works contained in this thesis include: (1)A literature review the hyperchaotic watermarking technique is relatively more advantageous, and becomes the main subject in this programme. (2)The theoretical foundation of watermarking technologies, including the human visual system (HVS), the colour space transform, discrete wavelet transform (DWT), the main watermark embedding algorithms, and the mainstream methods for improving watermark robustness and for evaluating watermark embedding performance. (3) The devised hyperchaotic scrambling technique it has been applied to colour image watermark that helps to improve the image encryption and anti-cracking capabilities. The experiments in this research prove the robustness and some other advantages of the invented technique. This thesis focuses on combining the chaotic scrambling and wavelet watermark embedding to achieve a hyperchaotic digital watermark to encrypt digital products, with the human visual system (HVS) and other factors taken into account. This research is of significant importance and has industrial application value.