cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Complete DECam Survey of Nearby Galaxy Clusters
Creators: name: Dell'Antonio, Ian
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Dark Energy Camera (DECam)
Blanco 4m Telescope

description: The Local Volume Complete Cluster Survey (LoVoCCS) is an NSF’s NOIRLab Survey Program to observe all 107 nearby galaxy clusters (those within redshifts 0.03 < z < 0.12) that are not obscured by the Milky Way and that have X-ray luminosity Lx > 10 44 erg/s.
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(502153) Henry Norbert Gell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
WIC Recipients in the Retail Environment: A Qualitative Study Assessing Customer Experience and Satisfaction
Creators: name: Ammerman, A.S.
name: Barnes, C.
name: Chauvenet, C.
name: De Marco, M.
Publisher: name: Elsevier B.V.
Year: 2019

description: Background: The Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) program is an important intervention for prevention and treatment of obesity and food insecurity, but participation has dropped among eligible populations from 2009 to 2015. Program satisfaction is integral to participant retention, and the retail experience is a vital component of program satisfaction. Objective: This article applies behavioral economics principles to explore the retail experience of WIC participants and ways in which it may be improved. Design: The authors designed and conducted semistructured interviews and focus groups with WIC participants. Participants/setting: A convenience sample of WIC participants aged 18 years and older were recruited through WIC clinics in Texas, North Carolina, Oregon, and Illinois (n=55, 27 participants from four focus groups and 28 individual interviews). Statistical analysis conducted: Responses were analyzed qualitatively using principles of content analysis. Results: Challenges in identifying WIC-allowable items throughout the store as well as perceived stigmatization during the checkout process were the chief complaints. Study participants described a learning curve in successful use of WIC in retail environments over time. Study participants also reported acceptance of restrictions, such as a requirement to purchase the least expensive brand. Conclusions: Dissatisfaction with the retail experience may lead to the underutilization of WIC benefits or program exit. Behavioral economics strategies that facilitate a better shopping experience, such as creating a section for WIC items in the store or improving in-store education, may improve the retail experience for WIC customers. Further research is needed to ensure such strategies are effective and do not contribute to stigma.
(502155) Mary Elizabeth Heydon
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
IGRINS Brings High-Resolution Near-IR Spectroscopy Back to Gemini South
Creators: name: Peck, Alison
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: IGRINS

description: The Immersion GRating INfrared Spectrometer (IGRINS) is a cross-dispersed near-infrared spectrograph. It is available to the international Gemini Observatory users through the Visiting Instrument Program.
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Fruit and Vegetable Preferences and Practices May Hinder Participation in Community-Supported Agriculture Among Low-Income Rural Families
Creators: name: Wang, W.
name: Jilcott Pitts, S.B.
name: Sitaker, M.
name: Garner, J.
name: McGuirt, J.
name: Ammerman, A.
name: Kolodinsky, J.
name: Connor, L.M.
name: Harris, R.
name: Hanson, K.L.
name: Seguin, R.A.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Inc.
Year: 2019

description: Objective: Describe fruit and vegetable (FV) preferences and other factors that may influence participation in community-supported agriculture (CSA). Design: In-depth, semi-structured interviews. Setting: Eight rural/micropolitan communities in 4 US states. Participants: There were 41 caregivers and 20 children (8–12 years of age) from low-income, English-speaking households. Phenomena of Interest: Knowledge, attitudes, and behaviors regarding FVs; perceived barriers to CSA participation. Analysis: Transcribed verbatim and iteratively coded. Results: Caregivers and children believed FVs were important to health, yet FVs were not featured in dinners or snacks and consumption was challenged by limited preferences and neophobia. Few caregivers and children knew about the seasonality of FV. Most caregivers were unfamiliar with CSA and had concerns about CSA cost, accessibility, produce quality, and selection. Conclusions and Implications: These qualitative data support improvements in: 1) CSA distribution practices to offer flexible payment and pick-up options, more fruits, and self-selection of FV; 2) public awareness of produce seasonality and the CSA distribution model as necessary precursors to participation, and lower cost for low-income families who highlighted this barrier; and 3) capacity to prepare FV by enhancing skills and providing time-saving kitchen tools. Approaches to aligning CSA practices with the needs and preferences of low-income families warrant further research.
(502156) William Edmund Collingridge
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Interplay of charge and vorticity quantization in superconducting Coulomb blockaded island
Creators: name: Khaymovich, I. M.
name: Maisi, V. F.
name: Pekola, J. P.
name: Mel'nikov, A. S.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Superconductivity (cond-mat.supr-con)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The angular momentum or vorticity of Cooper pairs is shown to affect strongly the charge transfer through a small superconducting (S) island of a single electron transistor. This interplay of charge and rotational degrees of freedom in a mesoscopic superconductor occurs through the effect of vorticity on the quantum mechanical spectrum of electron-hole excitations. The subgap quasiparticle levels in vortices can host an additional electron, thus, suppressing the so-called parity effect in the S island. We propose to measure this interaction between the quantized vorticity and electric charge via the charge pumping effect caused by alternating vortex entry and exit controlled by a periodic magnetic field.
description: 6 pages, 4 figures
Rural corner store owners’ perceptions of stocking healthier foods in response to proposed SNAP retailer rule changes
Creators: name: Osborne, I.
name: Sitaker, M.
name: Lo, B.
name: Morgan, E.
name: Kolodinsky, J.
name: Andress, L.
name: Maldonado, A.
name: McGuirt, J.
name: Haynes-Maslow, L.
name: Leone, L.
name: Bailey-Davis, L.
name: Baquero, B.
name: Senguin, R.
name: Ammerman, A.
name: Jilcott Pitts, S.
name: Byker-Shanks, C.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Ltd
Year: 2018

description: Purpose: To better understand rural corner store owners’ perceptions about the then proposed U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Retailer Rule. Methods: We conducted 32 interviews with rural corner store owners across six states in response to USDA's proposed rule. We asked owners about potential barriers to and facilitators of stocking healthier foods. Findings: Among the interviews, there were six main themes discussed: (1) SNAP Retailer Rule definition concerns; (2) challenges to implementation; (3) facilitators to implementation; (4) perceptions of SNAP customers; (5) benefits of being a participating retailer in SNAP; and (6) concerns about the threat to the store's economic viability if required to carry additional healthier items in line with the proposed rule. Conclusions: Rural corner stores need help promoting healthier food options, appropriately handling perishable items, finding suppliers that can adhere to their food delivery requirements, and maintaining their SNAP retailer license. Recognizing the implementation challenges of stocking healthier foods for corner stores and presenting feasible solutions to them can improve the likelihood of successful passages of healthy food access policies and programs. Future policies or programs focusing on stocking healthier foods should take into consideration rural corner stores’ unique geographic landscape and business practices.
Composite Fermion Geometric Resonance Near ν = 1/2 Fractional Quantum Hall State
Creators: name: Mueed, M. A.
name: Kamburov, D.
name: Hasdemir, S.
name: Shayegan, M.
name: Pfeiffer, L. N.
name: West, K. W.
name: Baldwin, K. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We observe geometric resonance features of composite fermions on the flanks of the even denominator ν = 1/2 fractional quantum Hall state in high-mobility two-dimensional electron and hole systems confined to wide GaAs quantum wells and subjected to a weak, strain-induced, unidirectional periodic potential modulation. The features provide a measure of how close to ν = 1/2 the system stays single-component and supports a composite fermion Fermi sea before transitioning into a ν = 1/2 fractional quantum Hall state, presumably the two-component Ψ331 state.
The perceived influence of cost-offset community-supported agriculture on food access among low-income families
Creators: name: Jilcott Pitts, S.B.
name: Seguin, R.A.
name: Kolodinsky, J.
name: Morgan, E.H.
name: White, M.J.
name: Sitaker, M.
name: McGuirt, J.T.
name: Wang, W.
name: Hanson, K.L.
name: Ammerman, A.S.
Publisher: name: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2018

description: Objective To examine perspectives on food access among low-income families participating in a cost-offset community-supported agriculture (CO-CSA) programme.Design Farm Fresh Foods for Healthy Kids (F3HK) is a multicentre randomized intervention trial assessing the effect of CO-CSA on dietary intake and quality among children from low-income families. Focus groups were conducted at the end of the first CO-CSA season. Participants were interviewed about programme experiences, framed by five dimensions of food access: Availability, accessibility, affordability, acceptability and accommodation. Transcribed data were coded on these dimensions plus emergent themes.Setting Nine communities in the US states of New York, North Carolina, Washington and Vermont.Subjects Fifty-Three F3HK adults with children.Results CSA models were structured by partner farms. Produce quantity was abundant; however, availability was enhanced for participants who were able to select their own produce items. Flexible CSA pick-up times and locations made produce pick-up more accessible. Despite being affordable to most, payment timing was a barrier for some. Unfamiliar foods and quick spoilage hindered acceptability through challenging meal planning, despite accommodations that included preparation advice.Conclusions Although CO-CSA may facilitate increased access to fruits and vegetables for low-income families, perceptions of positive diet change may be limited by the ability to incorporate share pick-up into regular travel patterns and meal planning. Food waste concerns may be particularly acute for families with constrained resources. Future research should examine whether CO-CSA with flexible logistics and produce self-selection are sustainable for low-income families and CSA farms.
(502151) Edwin Augustin Gell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
(502154) Louis Francis Heydon
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
RR Lyrae Stars in Ultra-faint and Ultra-diffuse Dwarf Milky Way Companions
Creators: name: Martinez-Vazquez, Clara
name: Vivas, Kathy
name: Walker, Alistair
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: Searching for RR Lyrae stars (RRLs) in ultra-faint dwarf (UFD) and ultra-diffuse dwarf (UDD) Milky Way companions is important for obtaining accurate distances to these systems, which then allows determination of their physical properties (e.g., size and luminosity) and computation of their orbits.
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(502150) Edward Augustine Gell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Untersuchung und Entwicklung von Katalysatoren zur Beeinflussung der Reaktionswege für die Hydrierung von CO2 zu Methanol
Creators: name: Ortner, Nils Oliver
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: 540 Chemistry & allied sciences
subject: 660 Chemical engineering

description: In der Arbeit wurden CuZn-basierte Katalysatoren für die CO2-Hydrierung zu Methanol untersucht und weiterentwickelt. Durch Dotierung von CuZn/ZrOx mit Oxiden von In, La, Y und Ti wurden die Geschwindigkeiten der Reaktionsschritte verändert und die katalytische Fähigkeit verbessert. Außerdem wurde durch kinetische Untersuchungen an einem CuZnAlOx-Katalysator gezeigt, dass es separate Reaktionszentren für die Entstehung und Zersetzung von Methanol gibt. Durch die Sättigung der Zersetzungszentren wurde eine ungewöhnlich hohe Methanolselektivität von 93 % bei einem CO2-Umsatz von 18,9 % erzielt.
Detecting quantum gravitational effects of loop quantum cosmology in the early universe?
Creators: name: Zhu, Tao
name: Wang, Anzhong
name: Cleaver, Gerald
name: Kirsten, Klaus
name: Sheng, Qin
name: Wu, Qiang
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology (gr-qc)
subject: Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics (astro-ph.CO)
subject: High Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)
subject: High Energy Physics - Theory (hep-th)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive the primordial power spectra and spectral indexes of the density fluctuations and gravitational waves in the framework of loop quantum cosmology (LQC) with holonomy and inverse-volume corrections, by using the uniform asymptotic approximation method to its third-order, at which the upper error bounds are $\lesssim 0.15\%$, and accurate enough for the current and forthcoming cosmological observations. Then, using the Planck, BAO and SN data we obtain the tightest constraints on quantum gravitational effects from LQC corrections, and find that such effects could be well within the detection of the current and forthcoming cosmological observations.
description: revtex4, 2 figutes and 1 table. ApJL 807 (2015) L17
Contributions to the reuse and reproducibility of computational biology models
Creators: name: Henkel, Ron
Publisher: name: Universität Rostock
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 004 Data processing Computer sciences
subject: 570 Life science

description: Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit der Reproduzierbarkeit und Wiederverwendbarkeit von systembiologischen Modellen, wobei die FAIR-Prinzipien (findable, accessible, interoperable, reusable) im Vordergrund stehen. Sie konzentriert sich auf 5 zentrale Forschungsfragen: Schaffung einer Grundlage für die Modellverwaltung, Auffinden heterogener, halbstrukturierter Modelldaten, Nachverfolgung der Modellentwicklung im Laufe der Zeit, Speicherung von Modellen und ihren Metadaten, Definition der wichtigsten Modellkomponenten für die Ähnlichkeitsanalyse.
Gaining and maintaining a competitive edge: Evidence from CSA members and farmers on local food marketing strategies
Creators: name: Hanson, K.L.
name: Wang, W.
name: McGuirt, J.
name: Ammerman, A.
name: Severs, M.M.
name: Morgan, E.H.
name: Pitts, S.B.J.
name: Seguin, R.A.
name: Becot, F.
name: Sitaker, M.
name: Kolodinsky, J.
Publisher: name: MDPI
Year: 2018

description: Community-supported agriculture (CSA) is a widely-used approach for farmers to sell directly to consumers. We used the product, place, price, and promotion (4P) marketing mix framework to examine characteristics that help farms offering CSA maintain member satisfaction and thus competitiveness. We conducted semi-structured interviews with 20 CSA members and 24 CSA farmers in four states. CSA members additionally completed a modified choice experiment. Qualitative data were coded iteratively, and choice experiment data were summarized and compared across scenarios. CSA members and farmers were motivated by a range of personal, social, environmental, and economic objectives. Members favored high-quality staple vegetables (e.g., lettuce, green beans), ideally produced organically. Trust and a sense of personal connection with the farmer comprised part of the "value added" of CSA participation. Time and location of share pick-up were very important; thus, farmers tried to offer convenient sites or an enriched pick-up experience. Small changes in price appeared unlikely to impact participation among current members. Social networks and word-of-mouth were powerful for marketing, but may limit the ability to reach diverse populations. Future research should examine the ability of CSAs to meet the needs of those who do not currently participate.
DIALECT RECOGNITION SYSTEM FOR BAGRI RAJASTHANI LANGUAGE USING OPTIMIZED FEATURED SWARM CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORK (OFSCNN) MODEL
Creators: name: POONAM KUKANA
name: POOJA SHARMA
name: PUNEET SAPRA
name: NEERU BHARDWAJ
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023

description: Abstract
The dialects of a language hold a significant place in speech processing (SP) applications. The objective of dialect identification is to categorize speech sample data into a specific dialect of a speaker's spoken language. A dialect recognition system must effectively distinguish between different dialects of a standard language, as they tend to possess many similarities. The dialect of a language is not a distinct characteristic, as it can be impacted by the utterer's birthplace. Researchers in the domain of automatic speech recognition (ASR) face difficulties in identifying the speech patterns unique to each dialect or language. The proposed work recognizes the dialects of the Bagri Rajasthani language from undefined expressions of speech. Rajasthani Language is one of the eldest and most famous languages in the Indo-Aryan languages. It comprises the different dialects and for recognizing the dialects, it used dissimilar phases of acoustic and spectral characteristics of the speech signal (SS). The spectral and acoustic features of SSs are measured to design the system. As there is no specific speech dataset for Bagri dialects, the database is built, to verify the Bagri dialects of the Rajasthani language. To improve the accuracy rate, and error rate in recognizing the Bagri dialects, the acoustic and spectral characteristics of speech expressions are joined. To verify several Bagri dialects of the Rajasthani language, different simulations for classification and investigation are carried out i.e., OFSCNN model, GA-NN, etc. The outcomes are important and the accuracy of 96.95 % for the OFSCNN model, 80.63 % for GA-NN, and 93.45% for the Multiclass SVM method is an achievement.
Evaluating Food Policy Councils Using Structural Equation Modeling
Creators: name: Calancie, L.
name: Ward, D.S.
name: Ng, S.W.
name: Allen, N.E.
name: Ammerman, A.S.
name: Weiner, B.J.
name: Ware, W.B.
Publisher: name: Wiley Blackwell
Year: 2018

description: At least 282 Food Policy Councils (FPCs) are currently working to improve access to healthy foods in their communities by connecting food system sectors, gathering community input, and advising food policy. Empirical research on FPCs is limited. This study empirically evaluates FPCs to better understand the relationships between Organizational Capacity, Social Capital, and Council Effectiveness by testing a FPC Framework adapted from Allen and colleagues (2012). Members of all FPCs in the U.S., Canada, and Native American Tribes and First Nations were invited to complete the Food Policy Council Self-Assessment Tool (FPC-SAT). Structural equation modeling was used to test the FPC Framework. Three hundred and fifty-four FPC members from 95 councils completed the FPC-SAT. After slight modification, a revised FPC Framework was a good fit with the data (χ2 = 40.085, df = 24, p-value =.021, comparative fit index = 0.988, Tucker Lewis index = 0.982, root mean squared error of approximation = 0.044, p-close =.650). A moderation analysis revealed that community context influences the relationship between Social Capital and Council Effectiveness within the FPC Framework. The FPC Framework can guide capacity building interventions and FPC evaluations. The empirically tested framework can help FPCs efficiently work toward achieving their missions and improving their local food system.
Together Eating & Activity Matters (TEAM): results of a pilot randomized-clinical trial of a spousal support weight loss intervention for Black men
Creators: name: Alick, C.L.
name: Rini, C.
name: Samuel-Hodge, C.
name: Tate, D.F.
name: Ward, D.
name: Ammerman, A.
Publisher: name: Wiley-Blackwell
Year: 2018

description: Objectives: The objective of this study is to evaluate the feasibility, participation, preliminary efficacy and retention in a couples-based weight loss intervention among Black men. Design, setting, participants: Two-arm pilot randomized clinical trial in an academic clinical setting. Forty self-identified Black men and their female cohabitating partners (n = 80) aged 18 to 65 years with body mass index from 25 to 45 kg/m2 were randomized using computer generated tables to allocate treatments. Intervention: Participants were randomized to a standard behavioural weight loss (Standard) programme or the Standard programme plus partner involvement (Enhanced). Both interventions focused on calorie reduction, physical activity and self-monitoring to facilitate weight loss. Enhanced included couples skills training and couple's communication components. Main outcome and measures: Changes in weight from baseline to 3 months among men. Partner weight loss (secondary). Results: Forty Black couples (men mean [SD] age, 47.4[11] years; body mass index, 35.0[6.1]), were recruited. Retention was 100% of the men and 98% of female partners. Attendance at group sessions was 63–73%. Between groups, mean (SD) weight changes among men were −3.4[.04] and −4.7[5.9] kg (p = 0.57) and among women −0.23[4.46] and −2.47[3.62] kg (p = 0.09), in the standard and enhanced groups. Conclusions: Weight losses from an intervention enhanced by partner involvement and an intervention with no partner involvement were not different. Treatment choice can be based on preference rather than outcome as both treatments are effective in producing clinically significant percent weight loss. Trial registration Clinical Trials NCT02458053.
Well-posedness of parabolic equations containing hysteresis with diffusive thresholds
Creators: name: Gurevich, Pavel
name: Rachinskii, Dmitrii
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Analysis of PDEs (math.AP)
subject: Dynamical Systems (math.DS)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: 35K20 47J40 35K51 35Q92 35K57

description: We study complex systems arising, in particular, in population dynamics, developmental biology, and bacterial metabolic processes, in which each individual element obeys a relatively simple hysteresis law (a non-ideal relay). Assuming that hysteresis thresholds fluctuate, we consider the arising reaction-diffusion system. In this case, the spatial variable corresponds to the hysteresis threshold. We describe the collective behavior of such a system in terms of the Preisach operator with time-dependent measure which is a part of the solution for the whole system. We prove the well-posedness of the system and discuss the long-term behavior of solutions.
description: 30 pages, 1 figure
Notebooks demonstrating Most Permissive Boolean Networks
Creators: name: Paulevé, Loïc
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Jupyter notebooks
Computational systems biology

description: These notebooks demonstrate Most Permissive Boolean Networks (doi:10.1101/2020.03.22.998377) on several case studies of biological networks. They can be executed interactively within the CoLoMoTo Docker version 2020-07-01: online, using myBinder service at https://mybinder.org/v2/zenodo/10.5281/zenodo.3936123/ or on your computer, provided you have Docker and Python 3 installed: download the notebooks individually from below, or from https://github.com/pauleve/MPBNs-SI-Notebooks/archive/main.zip and extract the zip file execute the following commands, where notebooks is the folder in which you extracted the notebooks: sudo pip install -U colomoto-docker # you may have to use pip3 instead of pip colomoto-docker -V 2020-07-01 --bind notebooks Visualize online: MPBN applied to Bladder Tumorigenesis by Remy et al 2015.ipynb MPBN applied to T-Cell differentiation model by Abou-Jaoudé et al. 2015.ipynb MPBN applied to Tumour invasion model by Cohen et al. 2015.ipynb I3FFL - compatible MPBNs.ipynb Scalability on large random BNs.ipynb The notebooks rely on the Python library mpbn, see the documentation for usage and examples at https://mpbn.readthedocs.io
GMC Collisions as Triggers of Star Formation. I. Parameter Space Exploration with 2D Simulations
Creators: name: Wu, Benjamin
name: Van Loo, Sven
name: Tan, Jonathan C.
name: Bruderer, Simon
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Astrophysics of Galaxies (astro-ph.GA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We utilize magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations to develop a numerical model for GMC-GMC collisions between nearly magnetically critical clouds. The goal is to determine if, and under what circumstances, cloud collisions can cause pre-existing magnetically subcritical clumps to become supercritical and undergo gravitational collapse. We first develop and implement new photodissociation region (PDR) based heating and cooling functions that span the atomic to molecular transition, creating a multiphase ISM and allowing modeling of non-equilibrium temperature structures. Then in 2D and with ideal MHD, we explore a wide parameter space of magnetic field strength, magnetic field geometry, collision velocity, and impact parameter, and compare isolated versus colliding clouds. We find factors of ~2-3 increase in mean clump density from typical collisions, with strong dependence on collision velocity and magnetic field strength, but ultimately limited by flux-freezing in 2D geometries. For geometries enabling flow along magnetic field lines, greater degrees of collapse are seen. We discuss observational diagnostics of cloud collisions, focussing on 13CO(J=2-1), 13CO(J=3-2), and 12CO(J=8-7) integrated intensity maps and spectra, which we synthesize from our simulation outputs. We find the ratio of J=8-7 to lower-J emission is a powerful diagnostic probe of GMC collisions.
description: 22 pages, 23 figures. Accepted for publication in ApJ
(502152) John Bernard Gell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Adolescents’ implicit attitudes towards people with immigrant background: differences and correlates
Creators: name: König, Sabrina
name: Stang-Rabrig, Justine
name: McElvany, Nele
Publisher: name: TU Dortmund
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: Discrimination
subject: Implicit Association Test (IAT)
subject: Implicit attitudes
subject: Immigrant background
subject: Stereotypes
subject: 370
subject: Diskriminierung
subject: Migrationshintergrund
subject: Stereotyp

description: People with an immigrant background can be affected by stereotypes and discrimination. As adolescence is an important developmental stage, this study investigated whether adolescents hold (negative) implicit attitudes towards people with Turkish immigrant background and whether adolescents differ in the extent of attitudes. Additionally, the relevance of perceived discrimination, identification with culture of residence, motivation to act without predjudice, and quality and quantity of contact to people with Turkish immigrant background for the extent of implicit attitudes was analysed. Analyses are based on 244 adolescents (60.7% female, 1.6% diverse; 13.1% with Turkish immigrant background, 16.8% with immigrant background other than Turkish) who participated in an online study. An implicit association test revealed that negative implicit attitudes towards people with a Turkish immigrant background were present among adolescents. Unlike adolescents with a Turkish immigrant background, adolescents without immigrant background and with immigrant background other than Turkish hold negative implicit attitudes on average. For the total sample, it was found that low perceived discrimination was related to negative implicit attitudes. The results are discussed with respect to substantive and methodological aspects. Implications for research and practice are derived.
description: Social psychology of education;25(6)
Microscopic Treatment of Solute Trapping and Drag
Creators: name: Humadi, Harith
name: Hoyt, J. J.
name: Provatas, Nikolas
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Materials Science (cond-mat.mtrl-sci)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The long wavelength limit of a recent microscopic phase field crystal (PFC) theory of a binary alloy mix- ture is used to derive an analytical approximation for the segregation coefficient as a function of the interface velocity, and relate it to the two-point correlation function of the liquid and the thermodynamic properties of solid and liquid phases. Our results offer the first analytic derivation of solute segregation and solute drag de- rived from a microscopic model, and analytically support recent molecular dynamics and fully numerical PFC simulations. Our analytical result also provides an independent framework, motivated from classical density functional theory, from which to elucidate the fundamental nature of solute drag, which is still highly contested in the literature.
Predictors and outcomes of excess gestational weight gain among low-income pregnant women
Creators: name: Nunnery, D.
name: Ammerman, A.
name: Dharod, J.
Publisher: name: Taylor and Francis Inc.
Year: 2018

description: Low-income women were interviewed and their post-natal records were retrieved (n = 160) to assess prevalence of excess gestational weight gain and its socio-demographic predictors. More than half of the women (64%) gained excess weight during pregnancy, with an average of 10 lbs in excess of Institute of Medicine guidelines. Logistic regression indicated that women that started pregnancy at an obese body mass index; who were African American or having an unplanned pregnancy were at significant risk of gaining excess weight in pregnancy. Intervention to prevent excess weight gain during pregnancy is critical in addressing obesity epidemic in the United States and worldwide.
(502149) Charles Graham Hepburn
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Dr Sahar Munir.pdf
Creators: name: MAJEED, Dr. Muhammad Imran
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150301 Business Information Management (incl. Records, Knowledge and Information Management, and Intelligence)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150299 Banking, Finance and Investment not elsewhere classified
subject: 150302 Business Information Systems
subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: 159999 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 150105 Management Accounting

description: Abstract Purpose: This study was intended to determine the effect of several variables which intend the customers to switch or not to switch their bank accounts. Several variables were studied with their impact on the dependent variable of customer switching behaviour in the banking sector of Pakistan. Methodology: Future studies are anticipated to make use of both the investigation's qualitative and quantitative findings. Both primary and secondary data were used for the study's goals. Meetings with individuals and organizations in person or online, focus groups, and seminars are some of the primary data sources. Gathering pre-existing knowledge from a variety of sources is part of secondary information collection, often known as work area research. This includes both internal sources (such as internal analysis) and external sources more frequently (like government measurements, hierarchical bodies, and the web). Descriptive, univariate, and regression analyses were utilized to achieve the results. Findings: These research findings make sense of the significant relationship between independent variables and dependent variable at the p-value < 0.05. Therefore, based on the results we accept our all hypotheses.
Food policy council case study describing cross-sector collaboration for food system change in a rural setting
Creators: name: Allen, N.E.
name: Ammerman, A.S.
name: Ng, S.W.
name: Konich, J.
name: Horton, C.
name: Weiner, B.J.
name: Calancie, L.
name: Stritzinger, N.
Publisher: name: Johns Hopkins University Press
Year: 2017

description: Problem: Food Policy Councils (FPCs) are cross-sector collaborations that bring representatives from across the food system together to identify issues, coordinate programs, and inform policy. Little is known about how rural FPCs operate to influence food access in their communities. Purpose: To explore how a rural FPC facilitates cross-sector partnerships and influences food system change through interviews with eight members of the Adam’s County FPC. Results: Connections developed through the FPC helped council members work more effectively in their home organizations. Four themes were discussed: council dynamics and structure; sharing resources, expertise, and information; promoting healthy food access through programs; and food policy opportunities and challenges. Conclusions: This case study illustrates connections between FPC members in a rural county and identifies how FPCs can facilitate food system change in their communities. Improving our understanding of how rural FPCs function can help to advance the potential public health impact of councils.
Impact of Security, Reputation, Service Quality, Advertising, Involuntary Switch and Customer Service on Customer Switching Behaviour in the Banking Sector of Pakistan
Creators: name: MAJEED, Dr. Muhammad Imran
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 150301 Business Information Management (incl. Records, Knowledge and Information Management, and Intelligence)
subject: FOS: Economics and business
subject: 150299 Banking, Finance and Investment not elsewhere classified
subject: 150302 Business Information Systems
subject: 150399 Business and Management not elsewhere classified
subject: 159999 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services not elsewhere classified
subject: 150105 Management Accounting

description: Abstract Purpose: This study was intended to determine the effect of several variables which intend the customers to switch or not to switch their bank accounts. Several variables were studied with their impact on the dependent variable of customer switching behaviour in the banking sector of Pakistan. Methodology: Future studies are anticipated to make use of both the investigation's qualitative and quantitative findings. Both primary and secondary data were used for the study's goals. Meetings with individuals and organizations in person or online, focus groups, and seminars are some of the primary data sources. Gathering pre-existing knowledge from a variety of sources is part of secondary information collection, often known as work area research. This includes both internal sources (such as internal analysis) and external sources more frequently (like government measurements, hierarchical bodies, and the web). Descriptive, univariate, and regression analyses were utilized to achieve the results. Findings: These research findings make sense of the significant relationship between independent variables and dependent variable at the p-value < 0.05. Therefore, based on the results we accept our all hypotheses.
ESR 1: Closing Presentation - Biobased Plastics for a Circular Economy
Creators: name: Main, Priyanka
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2023
Subjects: plastics
circularity
biobased
circular economy

description: Closing Presentation by ESR 1 Priyanka Main on "Biobased Plastics for a Circular Economy". Talk delivered in the Network-Wide Training Event 7 of C-PlaNeT EU H2020 project at AUTH, in Thessaloniki, Greece.
Ancient Connections of Sinitic
Creators: name: Bradley, David
Publisher: name: La Trobe
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 470303
subject: Chinese languages
classificationCode: 470407
subject: Language documentation and description
classificationCode: 4704
subject: Linguistics
subject: FOS: Languages and literature
classificationCode: 4703
subject: Language studies

description: Six main alternative linkage proposals which involve the Sino-Tibetan family, including Sinitic and other language families of the East Asian area (Miao-Yao, Altaic/Transeurasian, Austroasiatic, Tai-Kadai, Austronesian) are briefly outlined. Using the standard techniques of comparative linguistics, a remote linkage between the Sino-Tibetan languages, including Sinitic, the Yeniseian languages of Siberia, and the Na-Dene languages of northwest North America is demonstrated. This includes cognate core lexicon showing regular sound correspondences, morphological similarities of form and function, as well as similarities in social structure. The other proposals for linkages that connect Sinitic and other languages of the East Asian area appear not to be based on a genetic linguistic relationship but rather due to contact: millennia of loanwords from Sinitic into the languages of those families and some lexicon borrowed into Sinitic. More remains to be done to further document the status of the linkage between Sino-Tibetan and Dene-Yeniseian.
(502145) Wilhemina Gurney
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Appetite self-regulation: Environmental and policy influences on eating behaviors
Creators: name: Schwartz, M.B.
name: Chriqui, J.F.
name: Ammerman, A.S.
name: Just, D.R.
Publisher: name: Blackwell Publishing Inc.
Year: 2017

description: Objective: Appetite regulation is influenced by the environment, and the environment is shaped by food-related policies. This review summarizes the environment and policy research portion of an NIH Workshop (Bethesda, MD, 2015) titled “Self-Regulation of Appetite—It's Complicated.”. Methods: In this paper, we begin by making the case for why policy is an important tool in efforts to improve nutrition, and we introduce an ecological framework that illustrates the multiple layers that influence what people eat. We describe the state of the science on how policies influence behavior in several key areas: the federal food programs, schools, child care, food and beverage pricing, marketing to youth, behavioral economics, and changing defaults. Next, we propose novel approaches for multidisciplinary prevention and intervention strategies to promote breastfeeding, and examine interactions between psychology and the environment. Results: Policy and environmental change are the most distal influences on individual-level appetite regulation, yet these strategies can reach many people at once by changing the environment in which food choices are made. We note the need for more research to understand compensatory behavior, reactance, and how to effectively change social norms. Conclusions: To move forward, we need a more sophisticated understanding of how individual psychological and biological factors interact with the environment and policy influences.
(502147) Mary Josephine Gell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

description: This three-year research project began in January 2014 and investigated whether, during the Victorian period, the professions formed a distinct self-sustaining social group with its own mores and values. The project looked at 16,000 individuals drawn from census data for Alnwick, Brighton, Bristol, Dundee, Greenock, Leeds, Merthyr Tydfil, Morpeth, and Winchester. The research project was funded by the UK Economic & Social Research Council and was based at the Universities of Oxford and Northumbria.
Behavioral Economics and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program:: Making the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice
Creators: name: Ammerman, A.S.
name: DeMarco, M.M.
name: Hartman, T.
Publisher: name: Elsevier Inc.
Year: 2017

description: The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) serves as an important nutritional safety net program for many Americans. Given its aim to use traditional economic levers to provide access to food, the SNAP program includes minimal nutritional requirements and restrictions. As food choices are influenced by more than just economic constraints, behavioral economics may offer insights and tools for altering food purchases for SNAP users. This manuscript outlines behavioral economics strategies that have potential to encourage healthier food choices within the SNAP program.
(502148) Angela Gell
Creators: name: Professions, Victorian
Publisher: name: University of Oxford
Year: 2022
Subjects: subject: 220201 Business and Labour History
subject: FOS: Philosophy, ethics and religion
subject: History
subject: 140203 Economic History
subject: FOS: Economics and business

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