cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
A Robot Recommends: GPT-3 Answers Readers' Advisory Questions
Creators: name: Dallara, Anna
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: Artificial intelligence in libraries
Artificial intelligence
Readers' advisory services
Natural language processing

description: Generative transformers like GPT-3 are sophisticated question-answering tools with many real-world applications. This study explored a possible use for GPT-3 in a public library setting answering Readers’ Advisory questions. GPT-3 was asked real-world readers’ advisory questions gleaned from social media and asked to explain its answers. These responses were coded using qualitative content analysis to characterize GPT-3’s answers and ability to handle the nuance and complexity inherent to readers’ advisory questions. Though GPT-3 revealed several weaknesses, including inconsistency and a tendency towards repetition, it was able to recommend books in a variety of contexts and speculate about a user’s underlying experience. At times, its nonjudgmental answers were reminiscent of active listening techniques that library professionals practice, hinting at an emerging librarian persona. This study aims to open the door for further research on AI in public libraries and demonstrate GPT-3’s capabilities in a particular context.
Puoko-nui: a flexible high-speed photometric system
Creators: name: Chote, P.
name: Sullivan, D. J.
name: Brown, R.
name: Harrold, S. T.
name: Winget, D. E.
name: Chandler, D. W.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We describe a portable CCD-based instrumentation system designed to efficiently undertake high time precision fast photometry. The key components of the system are (1) an externally triggered commercial frame-transfer CCD, (2) a custom GPS-derived time source, and (3) flexible software for both instrument control and online analysis/display. Two working instruments that implement this design are described. The New Zealand based instrument employs a Princeton Instruments (PI) 1k x 1k CCD and has been used with the 1 m telescope at Mt John University Observatory, while the other uses a newer 1k x 1k electron-multiplying CCD supplied by PI and is based at the University of Texas at Austin. We include some recent observations that illustrate the capabilities of the instruments.
description: 8 pages, 9 figures, 2 tables
#Hydroxychloroquine: Misinformation Narratives Flourish in Absence of Public Health on Twitter
Creators: name: Macomson, Sydney Claire
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: Social media
Government information
Information Sharing
Disinformation

description: This paper is a qualitative analysis of tweets collected from searching the hashtag hydroxychloroquine on Twitter during the summer of 2022. Using the constant comparative method of grounded theory, this paper seeks to identify key narratives surrounding hydroxychloroquine and what public health organizations are doing to control the narrative. While the sample size is limited and cannot be used to generalize about medical misinformation on social media as a whole, this research will hopefully be useful to other students studying medical misinformation in the future.
The Role of the Magnetorotational Instability in Massive Stars
Creators: name: Wheeler, J. Craig
name: Kagan, Daniel
name: Chatzopoulos, Emmanouil
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Solar and Stellar Astrophysics (astro-ph.SR)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The magnetorotational instability (MRI) is key physics in accretion disks and is widely considered to play some role in massive-star core collapse. Models of rotating massive stars naturally develop very strong shear at composition boundaries, a necessary condition for MRI instability, and the MRI is subject to triply-diffusive destabilizing effects in radiative regions. We have used the MESA stellar evolution code to compute magnetic effects due to the Spruit-Taylor mechanism and the MRI, separately and together, in a sample of massive star models. We find that the MRI can be active in the later stages of massive star evolution, leading to mixing effects that are not captured in models that neglect the MRI. The MRI and related magneto-rotational effects can move models of given ZAMS mass across "boundaries" from degenerate CO cores to degenerate O/Ne/Mg cores and from degenerate O/Ne/Mg cores to iron cores, thus affecting the final evolution and the physics of core collapse. The MRI acting alone can slow the rotation of the inner core in general agreement with the observed "initial" rotation rates of pulsars. The MRI analysis suggests that localized fields ~10^{12} G may exist at the boundary of the iron core. With both the ST and MRI mechanisms active in the 20 solar mass model, we find that the helium shell mixes entirely out into the envelope. Enhanced mixing could yield a population of yellow or even blue supergiant supernova progenitors that would not be standard SN IIP.
description: 32 pages, 19 figures, accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal
Visualizing an Allosteric Intermediate Using CuAAC Stabilization of an NMR Mixed Labeled Dimer
Creators: name: Goldfarb, D
name: Cloer, E.W.
name: Aubé, J.
name: Sapienza, P.J.
name: Currie, M.M.
name: Li, K.,
name: Major, M.B.
name: Lancaster, N.M.
name: Lee, A.L.
Publisher: name: American Chemical Society
Year: 2021

description: Homodimers are the most abundant type of enzyme in cells, and as such, they represent the most elemental system for studying the phenomenon of allostery. In these systems, in which the allosteric features are manifest by the effect of the first binding event on a similar event at the second site, the most informative state is the asymmetric singly bound (lig1) form, yet it tends to be thermodynamically elusive. Here we obtain milligram quantities of lig1 of the allosteric homodimer, chorismate mutase, in the form of a mixed isotopically labeled dimer stabilized by Cu(I)-catalyzed azide–alkyne cycloaddition (CuAAC) between the subunits. Below, we outline several critical steps required to generate high yields of both types of unnatural amino acid-containing proteins and overcome multiple pitfalls intrinsic to CuAAC to obtain high yields of a highly purified, fully intact, active mixed labeled dimer, which provides the first glimpse of the lig1 intermediate. These data not only will make possible NMR-based investigations of allostery envisioned by us but also should facilitate other structural applications in which specific linkage of proteins is helpful.
Observation of many-body localization of interacting fermions in a quasi-random optical lattice
Creators: name: Schreiber, Michael
name: Hodgman, Sean S.
name: Bordia, Pranjal
name: Lüschen, Henrik P.
name: Fischer, Mark H.
name: Vosk, Ronen
name: Altman, Ehud
name: Schneider, Ulrich
name: Bloch, Immanuel
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Quantum Gases (cond-mat.quant-gas)
subject: Disordered Systems and Neural Networks (cond-mat.dis-nn)
subject: Strongly Correlated Electrons (cond-mat.str-el)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We experimentally observe many-body localization of interacting fermions in a one-dimensional quasi-random optical lattice. We identify the many-body localization transition through the relaxation dynamics of an initially-prepared charge density wave. For sufficiently weak disorder the time evolution appears ergodic and thermalizing, erasing all remnants of the initial order. In contrast, above a critical disorder strength a significant portion of the initial ordering persists, thereby serving as an effective order parameter for localization. The stationary density wave order and the critical disorder value show a distinctive dependence on the interaction strength, in agreement with numerical simulations. We connect this dependence to the ubiquitous logarithmic growth of entanglement entropy characterizing the generic many-body localized phase.
description: 6 pages, 6 figures + supplementary information
Self-Consistent-Field Study of Adsorption and Desorption Kinetics of Polyethylene Melts on Graphite and Comparison with Atomistic Simulations
Creators: name: Theodorou, Doros N.
name: Vogiatzis, Georgios G.
name: Kritikos, Georgios
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: A method is formulated, based on combining self-consistent field theory with dynamically corrected transition state theory, for estimating the rates of adsorption and desorption of end-constrained chains (e.g. by crosslinks or entanglements) from a polymer melt onto a solid substrate. This approach is tested on a polyethylene/graphite system, where the whole methodology is parametrized by atomistically detailed molecular simulations. For short-chain melts, which can still be addressed by molecular dynamics simulations with reasonable computational resources, the self-consistent field approach gives predictions of the adsorption and desorption rate constants which are gratifyingly close to molecular dynamics estimates.
description: 18 pages, 10 figures
HLC2: a highly efficient cross-matching framework for large astronomical catalogues on heterogeneous computing environments
Creators: name: Zhang, Yajie
name: Yu, Ce
name: Sun, Chao
name: Xiao, Jian
name: Li, Kun
name: Mu, Yifei
name: Cui, Chenzhou
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics (astro-ph.IM)
subject: Performance (cs.PF)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: Cross-matching operation, which is to find corresponding data for the same celestial object or region from multiple catalogues,is indispensable to astronomical data analysis and research. Due to the large amount of astronomical catalogues generated by the ongoing and next-generation large-scale sky surveys, the time complexity of the cross-matching is increasing dramatically. Heterogeneous computing environments provide a theoretical possibility to accelerate the cross-matching, but the performance advantages of heterogeneous computing resources have not been fully utilized. To meet the challenge of cross-matching for substantial increasing amount of astronomical observation data, this paper proposes Heterogeneous-computing-enabled Large Catalogue Cross-matcher (HLC2), a high-performance cross-matching framework based on spherical position deviation on CPU-GPU heterogeneous computing platforms. It supports scalable and flexible cross-matching and can be directly applied to the fusion of large astronomical cataloguesfrom survey missions and astronomical data centres. A performance estimation model is proposed to locate the performance bottlenecks and guide the optimizations. A two-level partitioning strategy is designed to generate an optimized data placement according to the positions of celestial objects to increase throughput. To make HLC2 a more adaptive solution, the architecture-aware task splitting, thread parallelization, and concurrent scheduling strategies are designed and integrated. Moreover, a novel quad-direction strategy is proposed for the boundary problem to effectively balance performance and completeness. We have experimentally evaluated HLC2 using public released catalogue data. Experiments demonstrate that HLC2 scales well on different sizes of catalogues and the cross-matching speed is significantly improved compared to the state-of-the-art cross-matchers.
description: Accepted for publication in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Additional file 2 of Biological basis of extensive pleiotropy between blood traits and cancer risk
Creators: name: Pardo-Cea, Miguel Angel
name: Farré, Xavier
name: Esteve, Anna
name: Palade, Joanna
name: Espín, Roderic
name: Mateo, Francesca
name: Alsop, Eric
name: Alorda, Marc
name: Blay, Natalia
name: Baiges, Alexandra
name: Shabbir, Arzoo
name: Comellas, Francesc
name: Gómez, Antonio
name: Arnan, Montserrat
name: Teulé, Alex
name: Salinas, Monica
name: Berrocal, Laura
name: Brunet, Joan
name: Rofes, Paula
name: Lázaro, Conxi
name: Conesa, Miquel
name: Rojas, Juan Jose
name: Velten, Lars
name: Fendler, Wojciech
name: Smyczynska, Urszula
name: Chowdhury, Dipanjan
name: Zeng, Yong
name: He, Housheng Hansen
name: Li, Rong
name: Van Keuren-Jensen, Kendall
name: de Cid, Rafael
name: Pujana, Miquel Angel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 2: Fig. S1. Blood trait associations with cancer diagnosis in the first year. Fig. S2. Genetic correlations among blood traits and cancer risk. Fig. S3. Q-Q plots for the genetic comparisons between blood traits and cancer risk. Fig. S4. Pleiotropic variant in a RNY-transcribed sequence. Fig. S5. RNY signatures and age of diagnosis of cancer types in TCGA. Fig. S6. Phylogenetic analysis of RNY sequences from the human genome. Fig. S7. The individual profiles of RNYs in plasma do not predict breast cancer. Fig. S8. General RNY overabundance in plasma is associated with breast cancer development. Fig. S9. Absence of association between levels of miRNAs known to be abundant in human plasma and breast cancer development.
SLPs expanding Teen Online Problem Solving delivery (Lundine et al., 2023)
Creators: name: Lundine, Jennifer P.
name: Chitwood, Kerrie Lemons
name: Wade, Shari L.
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420110
subject: Speech pathology
classificationCode: 320905
subject: Neurology and neuromuscular diseases
classificationCode: 420109
subject: Rehabilitation

description: Purpose: Teen Online Problem Solving (TOPS) is an evidence-based teletherapy program designed to promote neurocognitive, behavioral, and psychosocial recovery following brain injury through family-centered training. To date, TOPS has been primarily administered by neuropsychologists and clinical psychologists. This clinical focus article discusses a quality improvement project to adapt the TOPS training and manual for use by speech-language pathologists (SLPs) and reports feedback from SLPs following TOPS training and after delivering the program with adolescents who experienced neurological insults.Method: SLPs were invited to participate in TOPS training. Trainees were asked to complete posttraining surveys, active therapist questionnaires, and follow-up surveys directed to SLPs who had completed the intervention with at least one patient.Results: To date, a total of 38 SLPs completed TOPS training, 13 have implemented TOPS with at least one adolescent. Eight SLPs and 16 psychologists/trainees responded to follow-up surveys to share their perspectives on the program. Perceptions of clinicians delivering the program did not differ significantly in most respects. SLPs rated the ease of understanding nonverbal communication higher than psychologists. Seven SLPs responded to an SLP-specific survey about their experiences administering TOPS, noting a range of advantages and some limitations in their open-ended responses.Conclusion: Training SLPs to deliver TOPS has the potential to increase service provision to adolescents with acquired brain injury who have cognitive communication difficulties and their families.Supplemental Material S1. Selected questions from TOPS active therapist survey.Supplemental Material S2. Selected questions from TOPS SLP survey.Lundine, J. P., Chitwood, K. L., & Wade, S. L. (2023). The role of speech-language pathologists in expanding delivery of teen online problem solving for adolescents with acquired brain injury: A quality improvement project. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 32(3), 989–998. https://doi.org/10.1044/2023_AJSLP-22-00241
ASHA charter members’ responses to their times (Duchan & Hewitt, 2023)
Creators: name: Duchan, Judith Felson
name: Hewitt, Lynne E.
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420110
subject: Speech pathology
classificationCode: 420102
subject: Audiology

description: Purpose: This article examines the responses of the founders of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA; original name, the American Academy of Speech Correction) to the social trends of their day in the United States. Those trends included migrations from Europe and the rural South, the emergence of new scientific methodologies, and the birth of a professional class. Our aims are to reveal how the founders reacted to these select social changes, to show how their reactions served to shape the newly formed profession in and around 1925, and to describe how that profession is still grappling with their choices even today.Method: The writings of the founding members of ASHA were examined for evidence of their views in relation to 20th century historical trends, specifically examining their attitudes toward clients and clinical practice.Results: We identified elitist, ethnocentric, racist, regionalist, classist, and ableist statements in the writings of the founders. They promoted practices that denigrated those speaking dialects that were deemed nonstandard, including linguistic patterns originating from ethnic, racial, regional, and class differences. They also used ableist language in writing about people with communication disabilities, adopting a medical model that elevated the professional practitioner over the client.Conclusions: Our founders’ response to social and political trends led to their creation of oppressive professional practices rather than to work within a more positive social model of professional practice, which was readily available to them at the time, one that would have embraced differences rather than seeking to erase them. Once again, we are experiencing sea changes in our society, ones that offer us the opportunity to reverse the practices shaped by our predecessors. We can learn from the missteps of our founders to create practices that empower and respect those with communication differences or disabilities.Supplemental Material S1. Professional biographies of ASHA’s 25 charter members.Duchan, J. F., & Hewitt, L. E. (2023). How the charter members of ASHA responded to the social and political circumstances of their time. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 32(3), 1037–1049. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_AJSLP-22-00273
Anomalous Entanglement in Chaotic Dirac Billiards
Creators: name: Ramos, J. G. G. S.
name: da Silva, I. M. L.
name: Barbosa, A. L. R.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics (cond-mat.mes-hall)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present analytical and numerical results that demonstrate the presence of anomalous entanglement behavior on the Dirac Billiards. We investigate the statistical distribution of the characteristic entangled measures, focusing on the mean, on the variance and on the quantum interference terms. We show a quite distinct behavior of the Dirac Billiard compared with the non-relativist (Schrodinger) ones. Particularly, we show a very plausible Bell state and a sharp amplitude of quantum interference term on entangled electrons left from the Dirac Billiards. The results have remarkable relevance to the novel quantum dots build of materials like graphene or topological insulators.
description: 5 pages, 2 figures
Antiretroviral therapy experience, satisfaction, and preferences among a diverse sample of young adults living with HIV
Creators: name: Saberi, P.
name: Sauceda, J.A.
name: Ndukwe, S.
name: Campbell, C.K.
name: Dubé, K.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Youth and young adults living with HIV (YLWH) have a high HIV infection rate and suboptimal oral medication adherence. Biomedical researchers hope that long-acting antiretroviral therapy (LAART) modalities can help those who struggle with daily oral adherence. While adults living with HIV have expressed interest in LAART, little research has explored perspectives of YLWH. This study explores ART experiences and perspectives on LAART through qualitative interviews with twenty diverse YLWH (18–29) in the United States. Data were analyzed using framework analysis. Most participants were satisfied with their current ART yet had experienced side effects or had struggled with daily adherence. Preferences for improving daily oral ART included making pills smaller and reformulating ART into flavored chewable gummies. Most expressed enthusiasm for LAART, although needle aversion and previous injection drug use were potential barriers for some. Approximately half were interested in an ART patch, though its visibility and fear of stigmatization was concerning. Few expressed interest in implantable ART, calling it unappealing. Although younger people are most likely to benefit from these advancements in HIV treatment, additional research is needed to identify gaps in uptake and to further explore perspectives of YLWH to improve the success of new treatment modalities.
Additional file 3 of Biological basis of extensive pleiotropy between blood traits and cancer risk
Creators: name: Pardo-Cea, Miguel Angel
name: Farré, Xavier
name: Esteve, Anna
name: Palade, Joanna
name: Espín, Roderic
name: Mateo, Francesca
name: Alsop, Eric
name: Alorda, Marc
name: Blay, Natalia
name: Baiges, Alexandra
name: Shabbir, Arzoo
name: Comellas, Francesc
name: Gómez, Antonio
name: Arnan, Montserrat
name: Teulé, Alex
name: Salinas, Monica
name: Berrocal, Laura
name: Brunet, Joan
name: Rofes, Paula
name: Lázaro, Conxi
name: Conesa, Miquel
name: Rojas, Juan Jose
name: Velten, Lars
name: Fendler, Wojciech
name: Smyczynska, Urszula
name: Chowdhury, Dipanjan
name: Zeng, Yong
name: He, Housheng Hansen
name: Li, Rong
name: Van Keuren-Jensen, Kendall
name: de Cid, Rafael
name: Pujana, Miquel Angel
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Additional file 3.
On computing viscoelastic Love numbers for general planetary models: the \texttt{ALMA${}^3$} code
Creators: name: Melini, Daniele
name: Saliby, Christelle
name: Spada, Giorgio
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Earth and Planetary Astrophysics (astro-ph.EP)
subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: The computation of the Love numbers for a spherically symmetric self-gravitating viscoelastic Earth is a classical problem in global geodynamics. Here we revisit the problem of the numerical evaluation of loading and tidal Love numbers in the static limit for an incompressible planetary body, adopting a Laplace inversion scheme based upon the Post-Widder formula as an alternative to the {traditional viscoelastic normal modes method. We also consider, whithin the same framework, complex-valued, frequency-dependent Love numbers that describe the response to a periodic forcing, which are paramount in the study of the tidal deformation of planets. Furthermore, we numerically obtain the time-derivatives of Love numbers, suitable for modeling geodetic signals in response to surface loads variations. A number of examples are shown, in which time and frequency-dependent Love numbers are evaluated for the Earth and planets adopting realistic rheological profiles. The numerical solution scheme is implemented in ALMA${}^3$ (the plAnetary Love nuMbers cAlculator, version 3), an upgraded open-source Fortran 90 program that computes the Love numbers for radially layered planetary bodies with a wide range of rheologies, including transient laws like Andrade or Burgers.
description: This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Geophysical Journal International following peer review. The version of record is available online at https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggac263
The impact of housing status on acculturative stress and depression among Chinese and Indian college students
Creators: name: Chandra, Komal
Publisher: name: No Publisher Supplied
Year: 2020

description: This quantitative, non-experimental, study investigated the role of housing status on the relationship between acculturative stress and depression for Asian international college students. The research focused on students who originated from China and India. Theoretically, country of origin is a factor in acculturative stress levels (Berry, 1997), yet most research on acculturative stress focused on Asian students as a whole rather than grouping them by subregions. Moreover, previous research has shown that there is a direct relationship between acculturative stress and depression (Tareke Gebregergis, 2018). There is strong evidence on housing influencing health and housing as a form of social support for university students. There is a gap in research on the role of housing status (living on campus or off campus) on the relationship between acculturative stress and depression. The current study addressed three questions: (1) Is there a difference in housing status, acculturative stress, and depression levels between Chinese and Indian international college students?; (2) What is the relationship between acculturative stress and depression for Chinese and Indian international college students?; and (3) Does housing status moderate the relationship between acculturative stress and depression for Chinese and Indian international college students? Mann-Whitney U, Chi-square analysis, simple linear regression, multiple linear regression, and Hayes moderation analyses were conducted. Results indicated that there was a difference in acculturative stress levels between Chinese and Indian international students, with Chinese students having higher levels of acculturative stress. There was no statistical difference in depression scores or housing status between the two groups. There was a statistically significant relationship between acculturative stress and depression, with higher acculturative stress scores associated with higher depression scores. Multiple linear regression also showed that acculturative stress was a significant predictor of depression when controlling for both demographic and housing related factors. Housing did not moderate the relationship between acculturative stress and depression. The findings may inform universities on housing policy and environment for international students.
Geometric prequantization on the path space of a prequantized manifold
Creators: name: Biswas, Indranil
name: Chatterjee, Saikat
name: Dey, Rukmini
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Quantum Physics (quant-ph)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Given a compact symplectic manifold $M$, with integral symplectic form, we prequantize a certain class of functions on the path space for $M$. The functions in question are induced by functions on $M$. We apply our construction to study the symplectic structure on the solution space of Klein-Gordon equation.
description: 24 pages,[accepted]. appears in International Journal of Geometric Methods in Modern Physics (2014)
Teaching caregivers to implement COACH (Ambrose et al., 2023)
Creators: name: Ambrose, Sophie E.
name: Appenzeller, Margo
name: Kaiser, Ann P.
Publisher: name: ASHA journals
Year: 2023
Subjects: classificationCode: 420102
subject: Audiology
classificationCode: 420110
subject: Speech pathology
classificationCode: 460211
subject: Speech production
classificationCode: 460212
subject: Speech recognition
classificationCode: 470402
subject: Child language acquisition

description: Purpose: This study examined the effectiveness of Caregivers Optimizing Achievement of Children With Hearing Loss (COACH), an intervention in which parents were taught naturalistic interaction strategies that addressed the unique linguistic input needs of their young children with hearing loss.Method: A single-subject multiple-baseline across-behaviors design was used with four caregiver–child dyads to determine the effects of COACH training on caregivers’ use of the COACH language facilitation strategies and on their children’s language abilities.Results: A functional relation was demonstrated between teaching of strategies and caregivers’ use of the strategies across three dyads with slower, consistent changes observed in a fourth dyad. Improvements in children’s use of target-level language were observed for children in three dyads.Conclusions: Caregivers were able to implement COACH language facilitation strategies, although the pace of caregivers’ learning differed across dyads. Caregivers reported high satisfaction with participating in the intervention. Future research using a randomized design and a longer intervention condition is needed for a more complete assessment of the effects of the intervention on children’s language abilities.Supplemental Material S1. COACH intervention feedback questions and responses.Ambrose, S. E., Appenzeller, M., & Kaiser, A. P. (2023). Teaching caregivers to implement the Caregivers Optimizing Achievement of Children With Hearing Loss (COACH) intervention. American Journal of Speech-Language Pathology, 32(3), 1131–1153. https://doi.org/10.1044/2022_AJSLP-22-00223
An Introduction to Software Ecosystems
Creators: name: Mens, Tom
name: De Roover, Coen
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Software Engineering (cs.SE)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: This chapter defines and presents different kinds of software ecosystems. The focus is on the development, tooling and analytics aspects of software ecosystems, i.e., communities of software developers and the interconnected software components (e.g., projects, libraries, packages, repositories, plug-ins, apps) they are developing and maintaining. The technical and social dependencies between these developers and software components form a socio-technical dependency network, and the dynamics of this network change over time. We classify and provide several examples of such ecosystems. The chapter also introduces and clarifies the relevant terms needed to understand and analyse these ecosystems, as well as the techniques and research methods that can be used to analyse different aspects of these ecosystems.
description: Preprint of chapter "An Introduction to Software Ecosystems" by Tom Mens and Coen De Roover, published in the book "Software Ecosystems: Tooling and Analytics" (eds. T. Mens, C. De Roover, A. Cleve), 2023, ISBN 978-3-031-36059-6, reproduced with permission of Springer. The final authenticated version of the book and this chapter is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36060-2
New estimates of ongoing sea level change and land movements caused by Glacial Isostatic Adjustment in the Mediterranean region
Creators: name: Spada, Giorgio
name: Melini, Daniele
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Geophysics (physics.geo-ph)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: Glacial Isostatic Adjustment (GIA) caused by the melting of past ice sheets is still a major cause of sea-level variations and 3-D crustal deformation in the Mediterranean region. However, since the contribution of GIA cannot be separated from those of oceanic or tectonic origin, its role can be only assessed by numerical modelling, solving the gravitationally self-consistent Sea Level Equation. Nonetheless, uncertainties about the melting history of the late-Pleistocene ice sheets and the rheological profile of the Earth's mantle affect the GIA predictions by an unknown amount. Estimating the GIA modelling uncertainties would be particularly important in the Mediterranean region, due to the amount of high quality geodetic data from space-borne and ground-based observations currently available, whose interpretation demands a suitable isostatic correction. Here we first review previous results about the effects of GIA in the Mediterranean Sea, enlightening the variability of all the fields affected by the persistent condition of isostatic disequilibrium. Then, for the first time in this region, we adopt an ensemble modelling approach to better constrain the present-day GIA contributions to sea-level rise and geodetic variations, and their uncertainty.
description: This is a pre-copyedited, author-produced PDF of an article accepted for publication in Geophysical Journal International following peer review. The version of record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.1093/gji/ggab508
The partition function of the extended $r$-reduced Kadomtsev-Petviashvili hierarchy
Creators: name: Bertola, Marco
name: Yang, Di
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems (nlin.SI)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We derive a particular solution of the extended $r$-reduced KP hierarchy, which is specified by a generalized string equation. The work is a generalization to arbitrary $r\geq 2$ of Buryak's recent results of a solution to the extended open KdV hierarchy which corresponds to $r=2$.
description: 18 pages
On the isometric embedding problem for length metric spaces
Creators: name: Minemyer, Barry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We prove that every proper $n$-dimensional length metric space admits an "approximate isometric embedding" into Lorentzian space $\mathbb{R}^{3n+6,1}$. By an "approximate isometric embedding" we mean an embedding which preserves the energy functional on a prescribed set of geodesics connecting a dense set of points.
description: 40 pages, 10 figures
The Comparative Effectiveness of Digital Health Intervention Implementation Strategies for Young People With Chronic Health Conditions: An Umbrella Systematic Review Protocol Toward the Formulation of a Novel Systems Thinking Self-Management Framework
Creators: name: Nwoko, Nkechinyere O.
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2022
Subjects: Mobile apps
Chronic diseases
Systematic reviews (Medical research)
Self-management (Psychology)
Meta-analysis
Children

description: This umbrella review protocol details the plan for a systematic review of reviews to assess the comparative effectiveness of self-management digital health intervention (SMDHI) implementation strategies for Children and Youth with Special Health Care Needs (CYSHCN). I hypothesize SMDHIs require a different mode of understanding the way such tools function relative to the needs of the population. Specifically, there may be a better way to conceptualize SMDHIs—by determining whether the intervention's engagement strategy uses a solution-directive approach vs. a structured problem-solving approach—that is also complementary to Modi and colleagues' (2012) Pediatric Self-Management Model. If true, this conceptualization has the potential to predict the success of existing DHI primary studies. Thus, by developing a pilot search strategy, conducting a thematic analysis, and aggregating best practice reports of strategies that are proven to contribute to better health outcomes, it should also be possible to lay the groundwork toward the creation of a novel systems thinking framework called the “Self-Management Support Model for DHI Implementation” that could help implementers (i.e., researchers and clinicians) develop more effective DHIs in the future.
Infectious Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) Virus in Symptomatic Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) Outpatients: Host, Disease, and Viral Correlates
Creators: name: Mollan, Katie R
name: Fang, Lei
name: Wolfe, Cameron R
name: Alabanza, Paul L
name: Eron, Joseph J
name: Won, John J
name: Szewczyk, Laura J
name: Hudgens, Michael G
name: Cohen, Myron S
name: Baric, Ralph S
name: Brown, Ariane J
name: Loftis, Amy James
name: Keys, Jessica
name: Krajewski, Taylor J
name: Degli-Angeli, Emily J
name: Sheahan, Timothy P
name: Goecker, Erin A
name: Wohl, David A
name: Painter, Wendy
name: Dragavon, Joan A
name: Premkumar, Lakshmanane
name: Duke, Elizabeth R
name: Fischer II, William A.
name: Coombs, Robert W
name: Morse, Caryn G
Publisher: name: The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill University Libraries
Year: 2021

description: Although severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infectious virus isolation in outpatients with coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has been associated with viral RNA levels and symptom duration, little is known about the host, disease, and viral determinants of infectious virus detection.COVID-19 adult outpatients were enrolled within 7 days of symptom onset. Clinical symptoms were recorded via patient diary. Nasopharyngeal swabs were collected to quantitate SARS-CoV-2 RNA by reverse transcriptase polymerase chain reaction and for infectious virus isolation in Vero E6-cells. SARS-CoV-2 antibodies were measured in serum using a validated ELISA assay.Among 204 participants with mild-to-moderate symptomatic COVID-19, the median nasopharyngeal viral RNA was 6.5 (interquartile range [IQR] 4.7–7.6 log10 copies/mL), and 26% had detectable SARS-CoV-2 antibodies (immunoglobulin (Ig)A, IgM, IgG, and/or total Ig) at baseline. Infectious virus was recovered in 7% of participants with SARS-CoV-2 antibodies compared to 58% of participants without antibodies (prevalence ratio [PR] = 0.12, 95% confidence interval [CI]: .04, .36; P = .00016). Infectious virus isolation was also associated with higher levels of viral RNA (mean RNA difference +2.6 log10, 95% CI: 2.2, 3.0; P < .0001) and fewer days since symptom onset (PR = 0.79, 95% CI: .71, .88 per day; P < .0001).The presence of SARS-CoV-2 antibodies is strongly associated with clearance of infectious virus. Seropositivity and viral RNA levels are likely more reliable markers of infectious virus clearance than subjective measure of COVID-19 symptom duration. Virus-targeted treatment and prevention strategies should be administered as early as possible and ideally before seroconversion.NCT04405570.
Study of pulsar flux density and its variability with Parkes data archive
Creators: name: Wang, Ziyang
name: Wang, Jingbo
name: Wang, Na
name: Dai, Shi
name: Xie, Jintao
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We present average flux density measurements of 151 radio pulsars at 1.4 GHz with the Parkes 'Murriyang' radio telescope. We recommend our results be included in the next version of the ATNF pulsar catalogue. The large sample of pulsars together with their wide dispersion measure (DM) range make this data set useful for studying variability of flux density, pulsar spectra, and interstellar medium (ISM). We derive the modulation indices and structure-function from the flux density time series for 95 and 54 pulsars, respectively. We suggest the modulation index also be included in the next version of the pulsar catalogue to manifest the variability of pulsar flux density. The modulation index of flow density and DM are negatively correlated. The refractive scintillation (RISS) timescales or its lower bound for a set of 15 pulsars are derived. They are very different from theoretical expectations, implying the complicated properties of the ISM along different lines of sight. The structure-function for other pulsars is flat. The RISS parameters for some of these pulsars possibly could be derived with different observing strategies in the future.
College student motivations for and perceived impacts of volunteering with a nutrition and cooking education program for children
Creators: name: Soldavini, J.
name: Taillie, L.S.
name: Lytle, L.A.
name: Berner, M.
name: Ward, D.S.
name: Ammerman, A.
Publisher: name: John Wiley and Sons Inc
Year: 2021

description: To assess among college students their motivations for and perceived impacts of volunteering with Cooking Matters for Kids as part of No Kid Hungry NC. Seventeen college student volunteers responded to an online survey questionnaire assessing their motivations for volunteering and how they were impacted by their experiences. Motivational functions for volunteering (values, understanding, social, career, protective, enhancement) were assessed using the Volunteer Functions Inventory. The strongest motivational functions for volunteering were values and understanding. Students were also strongly motivated to volunteer related to the areas specifically addressed by the program (i.e., nutrition, public health, working with children). Perceived impacts of volunteering included being more comfortable working with children, improving knowledge/skills, gaining experience related to their future career, and having fun. Volunteering with Cooking Matters for Kids benefited college students. Issues addressed by the program and the desire to gain experience motivated students to volunteer.
Demonstration of a low latency bandwidth allocation mechanism for mission critical applications in virtual PONs with P4 programmable hardware
Creators: name: Mafioletti, D. R.
name: Slyne, F.
name: Giller, R.
name: OHanlon, M.
name: Coyle, D.
name: Ryan, B.
name: Ruffini, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We provide a real-time demonstration of a low-latency PON DBA mechanism, optimised for virtual PONs. Our implementation mixes P4 programmable data plane and software-based virtual DBA to provide efficient fast-track allocation for low latency applications
Quantum wetting transitions in two dimensions: an alternative path to non-universal interfacial singularities
Creators: name: Jakubczyk, Pawel
name: Napiórkowski, Marek
name: Benitez, Federico
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Statistical Mechanics (cond-mat.stat-mech)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences

description: We consider two-dimensional ($d=2$) systems with short-ranged microscopic interactions, where interface unbinding (wetting) transitions occur in the limit of vanishing temperature $T$. For $T=0$ the transition is characterized by non-universal critical properties analogous to those established for thermal wetting transitions in $d=3$, albeit with a redefined capillary parameter $\tildeω$. Within a functional renormalization-group treatment of an effective interfacial model, we compute the finite temperature phase diagram, exhibiting a line of interface unbinding transitions, terminating at $T=0$ with an interfacial quantum critical point. At finite $T$ we identify distinct scaling regimes, reflecting the interplay between quantum and thermal interfacial fluctuations. A crossover line marking the onset of the quantum critical regime is described by the $d=3$ interfacial correlation-length exponent $ν_{||}$. This opens a new way to investigate the non-universal character of $ν_{||}$ without penetrating the true critical regime. On the other hand, the emergent interfacial quantum critical regime shows no signatures of non-universality.
Real hyperbolic hyperplane complements in the complex hyperbolic plane
Creators: name: Minemyer, Barry
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2016
Subjects: subject: Differential Geometry (math.DG)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Complex Variables (math.CV)
subject: Geometric Topology (math.GT)
subject: Metric Geometry (math.MG)
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This paper studies Riemannian manifolds of the form $M \setminus S$, where $M^4$ is a complete four dimensional Riemannian manifold with finite volume whose metric is modeled on the complex hyperbolic plane $\mathbb{C} \mathbb{H}^2$, and $S$ is a compact totally geodesic codimension two submanifold whose induced Riemannian metric is modeled on the real hyperbolic plane $\mathbb{H}^2$. In this paper we write the metric on $\mathbb{C} \mathbb{H}^2$ in polar coordinates about $S$, compute formulas for the components of the curvature tensor in terms of arbitrary warping functions (Theorem 7.1), and prove that there exist warping functions that yield a complete finite volume Riemannian metric on $M \setminus S$ whose sectional curvature is bounded above by a negative constant (Theorem 1.1(1)). The cases of $M \setminus S$ modeled on $\mathbb{H}^n \setminus \mathbb{H}^{n-2}$ and $\mathbb{C} \mathbb{H}^n \setminus \mathbb{C} \mathbb{H}^{n-1}$ were studied by Belegradek in [Bel12] and [Bel11], respectively. One may consider this work as "part 3" to this sequence of papers.
description: 33 pages, 1 figure. Added Remark 1.3 to discuss the references for Corollary 1.2
Additional file 1 of Evaluation of penalized and machine learning methods for asthma disease prediction in the Korean Genome and Epidemiology Study (KoGES)
Creators: name: Choi, Yongjun
name: Cha, Junho
name: Choi, Sungkyoung
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2024
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Additional file 1. Supplementary tables.
A Novel low-latency DBA for Virtualised PON implemented through P4 In-Network Processing
Creators: name: Mafioletti, D. R.
name: Slyne, F.
name: Giller, R.
name: OHanlon, M.
name: Ryan, B.
name: Ruffini, M.
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2023
Subjects: subject: Networking and Internet Architecture (cs.NI)
subject: FOS: Computer and information sciences

description: We present a novel dual-DBA allocation, with a fast P4-enabled scheduler to provide low latency upstream grant allocations. We show latency reduction of 37% and 43%, respectively, compared to standard and virtual PONs
Quantum $L_\infty$ Algebras and the Homological Perturbation Lemma
Creators: name: Doubek, Martin
name: Jurčo, Branislav
name: Pulmann, Ján
Publisher: name: arXiv
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Mathematical Physics (math-ph)
subject: Algebraic Topology (math.AT)
subject: Quantum Algebra (math.QA)
subject: FOS: Physical sciences
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: Quantum $L_\infty$ algebras are a generalization of $L_\infty$ algebras with a scalar product and with operations corresponding to higher genus graphs. We construct a minimal model of a given quantum $L_\infty$ algebra via the homological perturbation lemma and show that it's given by a Feynman diagram expansion, computing the effective action in the finite-dimensional Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism. We also construct a homotopy between the original and this effective quantum $L_\infty$ algebra.
description: v2: 27 pages, fixed typos and the section 4.4; v3: published version - shortened and removed the appendix on relationship between quantum master actions and brackets