cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Is He/She/They Conservative? Political Implications of the Use of Gender-Fair Language
Creators: name: Tarillo, Matías Catriel
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: This article argues that the use of different pronouns to talk about people whose gender isunknown conveys information about the ideology and partisan inclinations of those who use them.In particular, citizens can use the information provided by pronouns to make decisions in differentcontexts, both political (for instance, when evaluating a candidate) and non-political (for example,when deciding whether to buy something in a specific store). That is especially true in contextswhere the party system offers two clear and ideologically distinct alternatives with which peopleidentify. With a survey experiment conducted in the United States, the paper shows that employinggender-fair language (GFL) makes candidates/stores be perceived as more liberal and more likely tosympathize with a political party for which gender is an important issue (in this case, the Democraticparty). In the same sense, those who use masculine pronouns are perceived as more conservative andmore likely to sympathize with parties that follow that ideology (in this case, the Republican party).The effect of GFL on being willing to vote for a candidate or to buy something at a store depends onideology: it is positive for liberals and negative for conservatives. The impact of male pronouns isnegative for both groups of partisans. However, language only has an effect on voting for femalecandidates. The paper also provides results from a version of the candidate experiment conducted inMexico, a Spanish-speaking country with a multiparty system. There, GFL has a negative impactfor candidates (regardless of the partisan preferences of the respondents), suggesting that affectivepolarization is indeed of key relevance.
Understanding the biogeography of Western European bats: the latest Pleistocene to Middle Holocene assemblage of El Mirador site (Sierra de Atapuerca, Spain)
Creators: name: García, Julia Galán
name: Bañuls-Cardona, Sandra
name: Cuenca-Bescós, Gloria
name: Vergès, Josep María
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Evolutionary Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Computational Biology

description: The Lateglacial to Holocene transition is a key moment for understanding the extant configuration of bat populations in Western Europe, where several species are currently under threat. The Chiroptera fossil record for this period and region is poorly known. Here, we present the bat fossil record along the stratigraphical sequence of El Mirador (Burgos, North Spain), which ranges from the Late Pleistocene to the Late Holocene. Level MIR49 (11,396 to 8430 cal BP) has provided the richest bat assemblage from this chronology in the Iberian Peninsula. The 14 taxa identified conform a bat association with no extant equivalent, although all of them belong to the current Iberian fauna, evidencing a high biodiversity among the Iberian Early Holocene bat communities that had not been detected until now. The sibling species Myotis myotis and Myotis blythii appear together, showing the earliest clear evidence of the arrival of the eastern-coming M. blythii into Europe far West, probably related to the expansion of open environments during the Younger Dryas event. Conversely, the overlaying Middle Holocene section has provided low numbers of bats’ remains. At El Mirador site, this impoverishment is more probably related to human presence than to climate fluctuations.
Inducing superconductivity in bilayer graphene by alleviation of the Stoner blockade
Creators: name: Shavit, Gal
name: Oreg, Yuval
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: External magnetic fields conventionally suppress superconductivity, both by orbital and paramagnetic effects. A recent experiment has shown that in a Bernal stacked bilayer graphene system, the opposite occurs -- a finite critical magnetic field is necessary to observe superconducting features occurring in the vicinity of a magnetic phase transition. We propose an extraordinary electronic-correlation-driven mechanism by which this anomalous superconductivity manifests. Specifically, the electrons tend to avoid band occupations near high density of states regions due to their mutual repulsion. Considering the nature of spontaneous symmetry breaking involved, we dub this avoidance Stoner blockade. We show how a magnetic field softens this blockade, allowing weak superconductivity to take place, consistent with experimental findings. Our principle prediction is that a small reduction of the Coulomb repulsion would result in sizable superconductivity gains, both in achieving higher critical temperatures and expanding the superconducting regime. Within the theory we present, magnetic field and spin-orbit coupling of the Ising type have a similar effect on the Bernal stacked bilayer graphene system, elucidating the emergence of superconductivity when the system is proximitized to a $\rm WSe_2$ substrate. We further demonstrate in this paper the sensitivity of superconductivity to disorder in the proposed scenario. We find that a disorder that does not violate Anderson's theorem may still induce a reduction of $T_c$ through its effect on the density of states, establishing the delicate nature of the Bernal bilayer graphene superconductor.
description: Published version
Spinorial description of $\mathrm{SU}(3)$- and $G_2$-manifolds
Creators: name: Agricola, Ilka
name: Chiossi, Simon G.
name: Friedrich, Thomas
name: Höll, Jos
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: 53C10

description: We present a uniform description of $\mathrm{SU}(3)$-structures in dimension $6$ as well as $G_2$-structures in dimension $7$ in terms of a characterising spinor and the spinorial field equations it satisfies. We apply the results to hypersurface theory to obtain new embedding theorems, and give a general recipe for building conical manifolds. The approach also enables one to subsume all variations of the notion of a Killing spinor.
description: 25 pages; typos and misprints corrected; to appear in Journal of Geometry and Physics
Scattering length and effective range of microscopic two-body potentials
Creators: name: Macêdo-Lima, Mathias
name: Madeira, Lucas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Nuclear Theory (nucl-th)
subject: Atomic Physics (physics.atom-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Scattering processes are a fundamental way of experimentally probing distributions and properties of systems in several areas of physics. Considering two-body scattering at low energies, when the de Broglie wavelength is larger than the range of the potential, partial waves with high angular momentum are typically unimportant. The dominant contribution comes from $l=0$ partial waves, commonly known as $s$-wave scattering. This situation is very relevant in atomic physics, e.g. cold atomic gases, and nuclear physics, e.g. nuclear structure and matter. This manuscript is intended as a pedagogical introduction to the topic while covering a numerical approach to compute the desired quantities. We introduce low-energy scattering with particular attention to the concepts of scattering length and effective range. These two quantities appear in the effective-range approximation, which universally describes low-energy processes. We outline a numerical procedure for calculating the scattering length and effective range of spherically symmetric two-body potentials. As examples, we apply the method to the spherical well, modified Pöschl-Teller, Gaussian, and Lennard-Jones potentials. We hope to provide the tools so students can implement similar calculations and extend them to other potentials.
description: 19+5 pages, 10+1 figures
Tibetans preparing to burn incense in a firepit as others watch the demonstrations in Barkor Square, Lhasa, 1993
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Demonstrations
Tibetans--Economic conditions
Tibetans

description: Photograph of Tibetans preparing to burn incense in a firepit as others watch the demonstrations in Barkor Square.
1-Aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid as a signalling molecule in plants
Creators: name: Yoon, G. M.
name: Kieber, J. J.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: This review summarizes and discusses the role of ACC synthase in plants. The classic role of ACC synthase is to act as the key enzyme in the biosynthetic pathway for the plant hormone ethylene. Several recent papers have converged on the notion that ACC, the immediate product of ACC synthase, acts as a novel signaling molecule in plants independent of its conversion to ethylene. The evidence for this hypothesis from these papers and potential roles for ACC is summarized and discussed.Ethylene influences many aspects of plant growth and development including germination, leaf and floral senescence and abscission, fruit ripening, and the response to abiotic and biotic stress. The pathways involved in the biosynthesis of and response to ethylene have been elucidated. The first committed and generally rate-limiting step in ethylene biosynthesis is the conversion of S-adenosyl-methionine to 1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC) by ACC synthase (ACS). This enzyme is encoded by a gene family in most plants and is subject to both transcriptional and post-transcriptional control in response to numerous endogenous and environmental cues. In addition to its well-described function as the immediate precursor of ethylene, recent studies suggest an alternative, non-canonical role for ACC. These studies found that in some contexts, chemical inhibitors of ethylene biosynthesis caused effects on root cell expansion that were not observed when ethylene perception or signalling was disrupted, suggesting that ACC, but not ethylene, played a role in these specific processes. Furthermore, mutation of all eight ACS genes in Arabidopsis was found to result in embryo lethality, in contrast to the relatively modest developmental effects of null mutants in the ethylene signalling components. This divergence suggests that ACC may play a role as a signalling molecule in plants. Here, we first review the ethylene biosynthesis pathway and then discuss these studies suggesting an independent role of ACC as a signalling molecule.
HL7 FHIR Healthcare Digital System for Patient Data Incorporation & Visualization
Creators: name: Šafran, Valentino
name: Arıöz, Umut
name: Mlakar, Izidor
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: HL7, FHIR, patient gathered health data, real world data integrartion

description: In this study, we concentrate our efforts on the element of patient health data's successful incorporation into the healthcare digital system. We prepared and presented an HL7 FHIR-based system that efficiently links various communication components in the information environment and provides graphically organized patient health data to the clinicians. To process acquired data, the HL7 FHIR healthcare digital system was deployed with a microservice-based architecture. Load tests were conducted on the HL7 FHIR healthcare digital system after it had been implemented. The privacy and security of the patient data were assured with the implementation of multiple security mechanisms, and all endpoints of the system are safeguarded since we are working with very sensitive patient data.
description: This study is part of the ARRS research and infrastructure programme Advanced methods of interaction in telecommunication (No. P2-0069).
title: Empirische Studie für den Einsatz von Business Analytics in mittelständischen Unternehmen
Creators: name: Gstarz, Markus
Publisher: name: FH CAMPUS 02 (CAMPUS 02 Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft)
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 658 Allgemeines Management

description: This thesis identifies the advantages business analytics provide responsible persons (chief executive officers, controllers, chief finance officers, project managers, IT managers) in Austrian medium-sized construction industry companies with an existing information system. The thesis begins with a literature review to define business analytics, the building trade, and medium-sized companies. 17 hypothesised advantages are then explored using quantitative and qualitative methods. The quantitative method is an online survey; expert interviews with three responsible persons form the qualitative method. The outcome is run through a correlation analysis in order to evaluate the advantages. The results show there are 16 advantages including better forecasting, understanding of patterns, increase of quality, and optimised capacity in production. Only the assumed advantage of a smaller number of stoppages in production couldn´t be confirmed. These 16 advantages show the value of business analytics for medium-sized companies in the construction industry.
Dinosaur tracksites from the Cretaceous Sagok Formation in the Uiseong Regional Geopark, South Korea: historical, palaeobiological perspectives
Creators: name: Lee, Jeong-Hyun
name: Lockley, Martin G.
name: Jung, Sungheuk
name: Ha, Yeoncheol
name: Cho, Kwon Rae
name: Lim, Jong Deock
name: Kim, Kyung Soo
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Environmental Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Chemical Sciences not elsewhere classified
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Sociology
subject: FOS: Sociology
subject: Biological Sciences not elsewhere classified

description: The relatively large (1,600 m2) Jeo-ri dinosaur tracksite from the Lower Cretaceous Sagok Formation in the Uiseong County area in Gyeongsangbuk-do (North Gyeongsang Province) was the first dinosaur tracksite designated as a Korean Natural Monument (Number 373). However, it has never been described in any detail. It is shown to reveal more than 380 footprints attributed to theropods, sauropods and ornithopods. The trackways show a preferred orientation to the north and northwest with some similarly sized ornithopod trackways suggesting gregarious behaviour. A smaller tracksite from the Mancheon-ri site, representing the Sagok Formation also reveals theropod, sauropod and ornithopod trackways. These include trackways of two small ornithopods (footprint lengths ~19.5–22.8 cm) that indicate deceleration while transitioning from bipedal to quadrupedal progression. One trackway shows rare evidence of pausing to ‘stand’ and leave ‘side-by-side’ footprints. The Sagok Formation is considered correlative with the Haman Formation which is well known for its dinosaur tracksites in Gyeongsangnam-do (South Gyeongsang Province). This correlation underscores the importance of understanding the remarkable abundance and spatiotemporal distribution of dinosaur tracks in the Lower Cretaceous of Korea.
Synthesis and characterization of 15N-labeled poly(sulfur nitride) in bulk and in superconductor composites
Creators: name: Kressler, Jörg
name: Radicke, Julian
name: Busse, Karsten
name: Amsharov, Konstantin
name: Golitsyn, Yury
name: Reichert, Detlef
name: Syrowatka, Frank
name: Hasan, Nazmul
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 540

description: 15N-labeled tetrasulfur tetranitride (S415N4) was synthesized by reacting S2Cl2 with 15NH3. The reaction was finalized with 14NH3. The successful labeling was confirmed by solution 15N nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy. S415N4 was used for the synthesis of poly(sulfur nitride) S15Nx via the intermediate species of S2N2. It was a topochemical polymerization in the solid state. The isotope ratio in the labeled polymer was obtained by laser deposition ionization time-of-flight mass spectroscopy. Solid-state 15N NMR spectroscopy of S15Nx indicates that at least three different chemical environments for 15N atoms are present in the crystals. Finally, SNx was polymerized in the presence of two other superconductors, MgB2 and yttrium barium copper oxide (YBCO), which demonstrates the capability of SNx for grain boundary engineering.
Computer-mediated assessment of intelligibility in aphasia and apraxia of speech
Creators: name: Roth, Heidi
name: Haley, Katarina L.
name: Grindstaff, Enetta
name: Jacks, Adam
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2011

description: Previous work indicates that single word intelligibility tests developed for dysarthria are sensitive to segmental production errors in aphasic individuals with and without apraxia of speech. However, potential listener learning effects and difficulties adapting elicitation procedures to coexisting language impairments limit their applicability to left hemisphere stroke survivors.
Unstable Spiral Waves and Local Euclidean Symmetry in a Model of Cardiac Tissue
Creators: name: Marcotte, Christopher D.
name: Grigoriev, Roman O.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Pattern Formation and Solitons (nlin.PS)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: This paper investigates the properties of unstable single-spiral wave solutions arising in the Karma model of two-dimensional cardiac tissue. In particular, we discuss how such solutions can be computed numerically on domains of arbitrary shape and study how their stability, rotational frequency, and spatial drift depend on the size of the domain as well as the position of the spiral core with respect to the boundaries. We also discuss how the breaking of local Euclidean symmetry due to finite size effects as well as the spatial discretization of the model is reflected in the structure and dynamics of spiral waves. This analysis allows identification of a self-sustaining process responsible for maintaining the state of spiral chaos featuring multiple interacting spirals.
description: 17 pages, 14 figures
Thermal impact of underground car parks on urban groundwater
Creators: name: Noethen, Maximilian
name: Hemmerle, Hannes
name: Menberg, Kathrin
name: Epting, Jannis
name: Benz, Susanne Amelie
name: Blum, Philipp
name: Bayer, Peter
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 550

description: Built-up areas are known to heavily impact the thermal regime of the shallow subsurface. In many cities, the answer to densification is to increase the height and depth of buildings, which leads to a steady growth in the number of underground car parks. These underground car parks are heated by waste heat from car engines and are typically several degrees warmer than the surrounding subsurface, which makes them a heat source for ambient subsurface and groundwater. Thus, the objective of this study is to investigate the thermal impact of 31 underground car parks in six cities and to upscale the thermal impact that underground car parks have on the subsurface in Berlin, Germany. Underground car parks have daily, weekly, and seasonal temperature patterns that respond to air circulation and traffic frequency, resulting in net heat fluxes of 0.3 to 15.5 W/m2 at the measured sites. For the studied underground car parks in Berlin, the emitted annual thermal energy is about 0.65 PJ. Recycling this waste heat with geothermal heat pumps would provide a sustainable alternative for green energy and counteract the urban heat island by cooling of the shallow subsurface.
Jakšić-Last Theorem for Higher Rank Perturbations
Creators: name: Mallick, Anish
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Spectral Theory (math.SP)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 47A10, 47A55, 47B25, 82B44, 60H25, 81Q10

description: We consider the generalized Anderson Model $Δ+\sum_{n\in\mathcal{N}}ω_n P_n$, where $\mathcal{N}$ is a countable set, $\{ω_n\}_{n\in\mathcal{N}}$ are i.i.d random variables and $P_n$ are rank $N
description: 12 pages
Tibetans walking past empty market stalls in Barkor Square, amidst demonstrations calling for an end to price increases, Lhasa, 1993
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Demonstrations
Tibetans--Economic conditions
Tibetans

description: Photograph of Tibetans walking past empty market stalls in Barkor Square, amidst demonstrations calling for an end to price increases in Lhasa.
An algebraic approach to translating Japanese
Creators: name: Boboc, Valentin
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Computation and Language (cs.CL)
subject: Category Theory (math.CT)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: We use Lambek's pregroups and the framework of compositional distributional models of language ("DisCoCat") to study translations from Japanese to English as pairs of functors. Adding decorations to pregroups we show how to handle word order changes between languages.
description: 20 pages, multiple diagrams and glosses
title: Analyse der Userakzeptanz in webbasierenden Single Sign on Lösungen
Creators: name: Furthmaier, Gabriel-Antonio
Publisher: name: FH CAMPUS 02 (CAMPUS 02 Fachhochschule der Wirtschaft)
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 005 Computerprogrammierung, Programme, Daten

description: Die vorliegende Masterarbeit soll Unternehmen ansprechen, die planen, eine Single Sign On Lösung in ihrem Unternehmen zu etablieren. Damit das Authentifizierungsverfahren im Unternehmen von den Mitarbeitern auch genutzt wird, muss eine starke Akzeptanz zwischen den Nutzern und einer Single Sign On Lösungen gegeben sein. Aus diesem Grund werden im Theorieteil Faktoren der Benutzerakzeptanz aus dem Technology Acceptance Model 3 herausgearbeitet, welche im Speziellen für die Akzeptanz von Single Sign On Lösungen zutreffend sind. Die empirische Forschung besteht dabei aus zwei Teilen, in denen einerseits eine Umfrage erstellt und andererseits die Zusammenhänge zwischen den herausgearbeiteten Faktoren und der Benutzerakzeptanz auf Signifikanz geprüft werden. Die Auswertung der Umfrage im Rahmen dieser Masterarbeit zeigt dabei einen starken Zusammenhang zwischen der IT-Affinität und der Einstellung des Nutzers gegenüber einer Single Sign On Lösung auf die Benutzerakzeptanz. Eine ebenfalls im Rahmen dieser Arbeit erstellte Fallstudie zeigt, dass Single Sign On Technologien im Privatbereich noch keinen großen Anklang finden und dass auch die Vertrauenswürdigkeit des Identity Provider keinen Einfluss auf die Benutzerakzeptanz von Single Sign On Lösungen hat. Abschließend werden Maßnahmenvorschläge erstellt, um die Akzeptanz von Single Sign On sowohl in Unternehmen als auch im Privatbereich zu steigern.
description: This master‘s thesis is intended to address companies who are planning to establish a single sign-on solution in their company. The acceptance between users and a single sign-on solution must be given to ensure that the authentication method will be used. For this reason, the theory section outlines factors of user acceptance from the technology acceptance model 3, which are especially applicable to the acceptance of single sign-on solutions. The empirical research consisted of 2 parts, in which on the one hand a survey has been created and on the other hand the correlation between the outcoming factors and the user acceptance has been checked for significance. The survey has been found that the user's IT affinity and attitude towards a single sign-on solution has a major impact on user acceptance. In addition, a case study outlines that the single sign-on technology is still not very popular in the private sector and it has been found that the trustworthiness of the identity provider has no impact on the user acceptance of single sign-on solutions. Finally, proposed measures has been developed to increase the acceptance of single sign on in business and private sector.
Cosmological measurements from void-galaxy and galaxy-galaxy clustering in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
Creators: name: Woodfinden, Alex
name: Percival, Will J.
name: Nadathur, Seshadri
name: Winther, Hans A.
name: Fraser, T. S.
name: Massara, Elena
name: Paillas, Enrique
name: Radinović, Slađana
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present the cosmological implications of measurements of void-galaxy and galaxy-galaxy clustering from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Main Galaxy Sample (MGS), Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey (BOSS), and extended BOSS (eBOSS) luminous red galaxy catalogues from SDSS Data Release 7, 12, and 16, covering the redshift range $0.07 < z < 1.0$. We fit a standard $Λ$CDM cosmological model as well as various extensions including a constant dark energy equation of state not equal to $-1$, a time-varying dark energy equation of state, and these same models allowing for spatial curvature. Results on key parameters of these models are reported for void-galaxy and galaxy-galaxy clustering alone, both of these combined, and all these combined with measurements from the cosmic microwave background (CMB) and supernovae (SN). For the combination of void-galaxy and galaxy-galaxy clustering, we find tight constraints of $Ω_\mathrm{m} = 0.356\pm 0.024$ for a base $Λ$CDM cosmology, $Ω_\mathrm{m} = 0.391^{+0.028}_{-0.021}, w = -1.50^{+0.43}_{-0.28}$ additionally allowing the dark energy equation of state $w$ to vary, and $Ω_\mathrm{m} = 0.331^{+0.067}_{-0.094}, w=-1.41^{+0.70}_{-0.31},\ \mathrm{and}\ Ω_\mathrm{k} = 0.06^{+0.18}_{-0.13}$ further extending to non-flat models. The combined SDSS results from void-galaxy and galaxy-galaxy clustering in combination with CMB+SN provide a 30% improvement in parameter $Ω_\mathrm{m}$ over CMB+SN for $Λ$CDM, a 5% improvement in parameter $Ω_\mathrm{m}$ when $w$ is allowed to vary, and a 32% and 68% improvement in parameters $Ω_\mathrm{m}$ and $Ω_\mathrm{k}$ when allowing for spatial curvature.
description: 11 pages, 9 figures. Accepted by MNRAS
Assessment of infant feeding styles among low-income African-American mothers: Comparing reported and observed behaviors
Creators: name: Sacco, Lisa M.
name: Goldman, Barbara D.
name: Bentley, Margaret E.
name: Carby-Shields, Kenitra
name: Borja, Judith B.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2007

description: This study’s goal was to provide a detailed description of feeding styles adopted by a sample of African-American women in feeding their infants in North Carolina, and to examine the correspondence between reported and observed feeding styles. Cross-sectional semi-structured interview and videotaped data were gathered in the homes of 20 participating low-income mothers of infants aged 3-20 months. Feeding styles were characterized through a tailored coding scheme (the Infant Feeding Styles Video Coding Scheme, IFSVCS) applied to both interview and video-taped data. We found that the most frequent feeding styles identified for both interviews and videotaped observations was restrictive, but that mothers were roughly equally divided among predominantly controlling (pressuring or restrictive) and less controlling (laissez-faire or indulgent) styles across methods. However, for over 2/3 of the sample, there was a lack of correspondence between interview and video-taped feeding styles. This unique characterization and comparison of observed and reported infant feeding styles provides additional insights into parental feeding approaches among mothers of infants at high risk of obesity, and highlights the need for further study of feeding style assessment and potential impact on infant weight outcomes.
Generation of two human induced pluripotent stem cell lines from a patient with Neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) and pathogenic NF1 gene variant c.1466 A>G BCRTi011-A as well as a first-degree healthy relative (BCRTi010-A)
Creators: name: Batool, Lilas
name: Storozhuk, Olha
name: Raab, Constanze
name: Beez, Christien Madlen
name: Selig, Mareike
name: Harder, Anja
name: Kurtz, Andreas
Publisher: name: Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Sachsen-Anhalt
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 610

description: We describe the generation of two human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) lines derived from peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) using a non-integrative episomal reprogramming strategy. The first cell line was derived from a NF1 patient with the genetic variant c.1466A>G (BCRTi011-A) which leads to a cryptic splice site and aberrant splicing. The second one was created from a healthy relative of first-degree (BCRTi010-A). The generated iPSC lines were shown to have tri-lineage differentiation potential, a normal karyotype, and expression of pluripotent markers. Both iPSC lines provide a powerful tool for in vitro disease modeling and therapy development.
MOTIVATING THE MAINSTREAM: AN ACCOUNT OF PROTEST VOTING FOR NICHE IMMIGRATION-FOCUSED PARTIES IN EU PARLIAMENTARY ELECTIONS
Creators: name: Kunesh, Elizabeth Ann
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2023

description: Niche immigration-centric parties in Europe tend to experience greater electoral success in EU and subnational elections compared to national elections. Explaining this discrepancy requires identifying the mechanisms behind vote-switching across electoral arenas. While existing literature has explored potential mechanisms for vote-switching, the specific factors driving vote-switching in favor of niche parties, particularly niche immigrant-focused parties, remain poorly understood. Building on Emmy Lindstam's work, my research proposes that voters strategically defect to niche parties to signal the significance of overlooked issues to their preferred mainstream parties. Through empirical testing in 18 EU countries and the UK, I find empirical evidence supporting the hypothesis that signaling issue salience to mainstream parties contributes to vote-switching. Other covariates suggest that individual immigration position, individual ideology, and level of government satisfaction also play statistically insignificant roles.
Development and validation of the Infant Feeding Style Questionnaire
Creators: name: Zimmer, Catherine R.
name: Borja, Judith B.
name: Adair, Linda S.
name: Thompson, Amanda L.
name: Mendez, Michelle A.
name: Bentley, Margaret E.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: This study describes and validates the Infant Feeding Style Questionnaire (IFSQ), a self-report instrument designed to measure feeding beliefs and behaviors among mothers of infants and young children. Categorical confirmatory factor analysis was used to estimate latent factors for five feeding styles, laissez-faire, restrictive, pressuring, responsive and indulgent, and to validate that items hypothesized a priori as measures of each style yielded well-fitting models. Models were tested and iteratively modified to determine the best fitting model for each of 13 feeding style sub-constructs, using a sample of 154 low-income African-American mothers of infants aged 3-20 months in North Carolina. With minor changes, models were confirmed in an independent sample of 150 African-American first-time mothers, yielding a final instrument with 39 questions on maternal beliefs, 24 questions on behaviors and an additional 20 behavioral items pertaining to solid feeding for infants over 6 months of age. Internal reliability measures for the sub-constructs ranged from 0.75 to 0.95. Several sub-constructs, responsive to satiety cues, pressuring with cereal, indulgent pampering and indulgent soothing, were inversely related to infant weight-for-length z-score, providing initial support for the validity of this instrument for assessing maternal feeding beliefs and behaviors that may influence infant weight outcomes.
Tibetans walking through Barkor Sqaure amidst demonstrations calling for an end to price increases, Lhasa, 1993
Publisher: name: Columbia University
Year: 2020
Subjects: Demonstrations
Tibetans--Economic conditions
Tibetans

description: Photograph of Tibetans walking through Barkor Sqaure amidst demonstrations calling for an end to price increases in Lhasa.
Exploring the phase diagram of the two-impurity Kondo problem
Creators: name: Spinelli, A.
name: Gerrits, M.
name: Toskovic, R.
name: Bryant, B.
name: Ternes, M.
name: Otte, A. F.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A system of two exchange-coupled Kondo impurities in a magnetic field gives rise to a rich phase space hosting a multitude of correlated phenomena. Magnetic atoms on surfaces probed through scanning tunnelling microscopy provide an excellent platform to investigate coupled impurities, but typical high Kondo temperatures prevent field-dependent studies from being performed, rendering large parts of the phase space inaccessible. We present an integral study of pairs of Co atoms on insulating Cu2N/Cu(100), which each have a Kondo temperature of only 2.6 K. In order to cover the different regions of the phase space, the pairs are designed to have interaction strengths similar to the Kondo temperature. By applying a sufficiently strong magnetic field, we are able to access a new phase in which the two coupled impurities are simultaneously screened. Comparison of differential conductance spectra taken on the atoms to simulated curves, calculated using a third order transport model, allows us to independently determine the degree of Kondo screening in each phase.
description: paper: 14 pages, 4 figures; supplementary: 3 pages, 1 figure, 1 table
Αρχές διέπουσες το Ευρωπαϊκό Ένταλμα Σύλληψης και λόγοι άρνησης εκτέλεσης αυτού
Creators: name: Μητσιμπόνα, Ειρήνη Θωμά
Publisher: name: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Year: 2024
Subjects: Ευρωπαϊκό Ένταλμα Σύλληψης
Θεμελιώδεις αρχές
Λόγοι άρνησης εκτέλεσης
European arrest warrant
General principles
Grounds for non-execution

description: Αντικείμενο της παρούσας μελέτης αποτελεί το Ευρωπαϊκό Ένταλμα Σύλληψης και συγκεκριμένα οι θεμελιώδεις αρχές που διέπουν τον εν λόγω θεσμό, καθώς και οι προβλεπόμενοι εκ του νόμου λόγοι που οδηγούν ή μπορούν να οδηγήσουν το κράτος εκτέλεσης σε άρνηση παράδοσης του εκζητουμένου προσώπου. Αρχικά, θα γίνει μία σύντομη αναδρομή στην εξελικτική πορεία του ευρωπαϊκού ποινικού δικαίου, στα πλαίσια του οποίου γεννήθηκε ο υπό εξέταση θεσμός δικαστικής συνεργασίας, θα επισημανθούν οι σημαντικότερες διαφορές του από τον προκάτοχό του, τον θεσμό της εκδόσεως και θα αναφερθούν ακροθιγώς οι διαδικασίες έκδοσης και εκτέλεσης ενός εντάλματος. Το δεύτερο κεφάλαιο θα επικεντρωθεί στις αρχές που διαπνέουν τον εν θέματι θεσμό, οι οποίες θα εξεταστούν και από μία συγκριτική σκοπιά, με παραδείγματα από την εθνική και αλλοδαπή νομολογία, αλλά και τη νομολογία του Δικαστηρίου της Ευρωπαϊκής Ένωσης. Τέλος, στο τρίτο κεφάλαιο θα εξεταστούν οι λόγοι άρνησης εκτέλεσης που προβλέπονται στον εθνικό νόμο ενσωμάτωσης, ήτοι τον Ν.3251/2004 και θα αναλυθεί ειδικά η προβληματική της παραβίασης των θεμελιωδών δικαιωμάτων ως λόγος άρνησης εκτελέσεως ενός Ευρωπαϊκού Εντάλματος Σύλληψης.
description: The subject of this thesis is the European Arrest Warrant and more specifically the general principles that regulate the forementioned instrument, as well as the grounds for non-execution that lead or may lead the executing state to refuse to surrender the requested person. Firstly, we will refer to the evolution of European criminal law, in the context of which this procedure of judicial cooperation was born, we will highlight the main differences between the European Arrest Warrant and the preceding procedure of extradition and we will shortly note the procedures of issuing and executing such a warrant. The second chapter will focus on the principles that govern this procedure, which will be examined from a comparative perspective, with examples from national and foreign case law, as well as the case law of the ECJ. Lastly, at the third chapter, we will point out the grounds for non-execution that are foreseen in the national law, namely Law 3251/2024 and we will analyze especially the debate on whether the violation of fundamental human rights may be perceived as a ground for non-execution of a European Arrest Warrant.
Optical & Sunyaev-Zel'dovich Observations of a New Sample of Distant Rich Galaxy Clusters in the ROSAT All Sky Survey
Creators: name: Buddendiek, A.
name: Schrabback, T.
name: Greer, C. H.
name: Hoekstra, H.
name: Sommer, M.
name: Eifler, T.
name: Erben, T.
name: Erler, J.
name: Hicks, A. K.
name: High, F. W.
name: Hildebrandt, H.
name: Marrone, D. P.
name: Morris, R. G.
name: Muzzin, A.
name: Reiprich, T. H.
name: Schirmer, M.
name: Schneider, P.
name: von der Linden, A.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Finding a sample of the most massive clusters with redshifts $z>0.6$ can provide an interesting consistency check of the $Λ$ cold dark matter ($Λ$CDM) model. Here we present results from our search for clusters with $0.6\lesssim z\lesssim1.0$ where the initial candidates were selected by cross-correlating the RASS faint and bright source catalogues with red galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey DR8. Our survey thus covers $\approx10,000\,\rm{deg^2}$, much larger than previous studies of this kind. Deeper follow-up observations in three bands using the William Herschel Telescope and the Large Binocular Telescope were performed to confirm the candidates, resulting in a sample of 44 clusters for which we present richnesses and red sequence redshifts, as well as spectroscopic redshifts for a subset. At least two of the clusters in our sample are comparable in richness to RCS2-$J$232727.7$-$020437, one of the richest systems discovered to date. We also obtained new observations with the Combined Array for Research in Millimeter Astronomy for a subsample of 21 clusters. For 11 of those we detect the Sunyaev-Zel'dovich effect signature. The Sunyaev-Zel'dovich signal allows us to estimate $M_{200}$ and check for tension with the cosmological standard model. We find no tension between our cluster masses and the $Λ$CDM model.
description: 29 pages, 13 figures, to be published in MNRAS 450, 4248-4276 (2015)
The biology of binge eating
Creators: name: Bulik, Cynthia M.
name: Brownley, Kimberly A.
name: Mo, Xiaofei
name: Mathes, Wendy Foulds
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2009

description: To examine the literature on binge eating to gain a better understanding of its biological foundations and their role in the eating disorders.
Run-and-tumble motion in a linear ratchet potential: Analytic solution, power extraction, and first-passage properties
Creators: name: Roberts, Connor
name: Zhen, Zigan
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We explore the properties of run-and-tumble particles moving in a piecewise-linear "ratchet" potential by deriving analytic results for the system's steady-state probability density, current, entropy production rate, extractable power, and thermodynamic efficiency. The ratchet's broken spatial symmetry rectifies the particles' self-propelled motion, resulting in a positive current that peaks at finite values of the diffusion strength, ratchet height, and particle self-propulsion speed. Similar nonmonotonic behaviour is also observed for the extractable power and efficiency. We find the optimal apex position for generating maximum current varies with diffusion, and that entropy production can have nonmonotonic dependence on diffusion. In particular, for vanishing diffusion, entropy production remains finite when particle self-propulsion is weaker than the ratchet force. Furthermore, power extraction with near-perfect efficiency is achievable in certain parameter regimes due to the simplifications afforded by modelling "dry" active particles. In the final part, we derive mean first-passage times and splitting probabilities for different boundary and initial conditions. This work connects the study of work extraction from active matter with exactly solvable active particle models and will therefore facilitate the design of active engines through these analytic results.
description: 14 pages (main), 23 pages (total), 17 figures
Report on services in portability and refactoring - Deliverable D3.2
Creators: name: Raffin, Erwan
name: van Werkhoven, Ben
name: van den Oord, Gijs
name: Azizi, Victor
name: Sclocco, Alessio
name: Attema, Jisk
name: Heldens, Stijn
name: Guibert, David
name: Lucido, Loris
name: Moulard, Georges-Emmanuel
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2022
Subjects: ESiWACE2
Centre of Excellence in Simulation of Weather and Climate in Europe Phase 2

description: Weather and climate models are large and complex applications that experience a tension field between investments to enhance the numerical representation of the underlying physics, or to adapt the software to the latest hardware architectures (Lawrence et al., 2018). However, after a long period of relative stability, the computing infrastructure is rapidly evolving and diversifying, with more change on the horizon (Heldens et al., 2020). Adapting existing software to the latest computing platforms and exploiting the full capability of the architecture therefore requires specific expertise and extensive changes at the source code level (van Werkhoven et al., 2020). As such, continued development of weather and climate models requires new collaborations between experts from different fields (Mu ̈ller et al., 2019). ESiWACE2 supports the exascale preparations for the weather and climate modelling community in Europe through the creation of services. These services target the community at large, including both weather and climate modelling groups. The services establish short collaborative projects between Research Software Engineers (RSEs) and model development groups, providing guidance, engineering, and advice to improve model efficiency and port models to existing and upcoming computing infrastructures. This deliverable summarises the results from the service projects in portability and refactoring (Service 1) within the ESiWACE2 Services (Work Package 3) at the end of the project. It also discusses how to move forward and advance the codes towards exascale.
description: ESiWACE2 stands for Centre of Excellence in Simulation of Weather and Climate in Europe Phase 2. ESiWACE2 is funded by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme (H2020-INFRAEDI-2018-1 call) under grant agreement 823988.
Development of the responsiveness to child feeding cues scale
Creators: name: Butte, Nancy F.
name: Hodges, Eric A.
name: Hughes, Sheryl O.
name: Fisher, Jennifer O.
name: Johnson, Susan L.
name: Hopkinson, Judy M.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Parent-child feeding interactions during the first two years of life are thought to shape child appetite and obesity risk, but remain poorly studied. This research was designed to develop and assess the Responsiveness to Child Feeding Cues Scale (RCFCS), an observational measure of caregiver responsiveness to child feeding cues relevant to obesity. General responsiveness during feeding as well as maternal responsiveness to child hunger and fullness were rated during mid-morning feeding occasions by 3 trained coders using digitally-recordings. Initial inter-rater reliability and criterion validity were evaluated in a sample of 144 ethnically-diverse mothers of healthy 7- to 24-month-old children. Maternal self-report of demographics and measurements of maternal/child anthropometrics were obtained. Inter-rater agreement for most variables was excellent (ICC>0.80). Mothers tended to be more responsive to child hunger than fullness cues (p<0.001). Feeding responsiveness dimensions were associated with demographics, including maternal education, maternal body mass index, and child age, and aspects of feeding, including breastfeeding duration, and self-feeding. The RCFCS is a reliable observational measure of responsive feeding for children <2 years of age that is relevant to obesity in early development.
On cosine families close to scalar cosine families
Creators: name: Chojnacki, Wojciech
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Functional Analysis (math.FA)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: Primary 47D09, 47C05, Secondary 47A30

description: We prove that if two normed-algebra-valued cosine families indexed by a single Abelian group, of which one is bounded and comprised solely of scalar elements of the underlying algebra, differ in norm by less than $1$ uniformly in the parametrising index, then these families coincide.
description: Updated the bibliography
Food insecurity with past experience of restrained eating is a recipe for increased gestational weight gain
Creators: name: Epel, Elissa
name: Siega-Riz, Anna Maria
name: Laraia, Barbara
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2013

description: Food insecurity is linked to higher weight gain in pregnancy, as is dietary restraint. We hypothesized that pregnant women exposed to marginal food insecurity, and who reported dietary restraint before pregnancy, will paradoxically show the greatest weight gain. Weight outcomes were defined as total kilograms, observed-to-recommended weight gain ratio, and categorized as adequate, inadequate or excessive weight gain based on 2009 Institute of Medicine guidelines. A likelihood ratio test assessed the interaction between marginal food insecurity and dietary restraint and found significant. Adjusted multivariate regression and multinomial logistic models were used to estimate weight gain outcomes. In adjusted models stratified by dietary restraint, marginal insecurity and low restraint was significantly associated with lower weight gain and weight gain ratio compared to food secure and low restraint. Conversely, marginal insecurity and high restraint was significantly associated with higher weight gain and weight gain ratio compared to food secure and high restraint. Marginal insecurity with high restraint was significantly associated with excessive weight gain. Models were consistent when restricted to low-income women and full-term deliveries. In the presence of marginal food insecurity, women who struggle with weight and dieting issues may be at risk for excessive weight gain.